Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 14:40 +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Apport sends complete core dumps, which is a very bad idea. The dumps > > can be huge (for desktop applications they often grow beyond 200MB) and > > they can contain gazillions of sensitive in

How to get sepolgen while it lives in NEW

2007-04-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, The new policycoreutils has a dependency on sepolgen, a python library used for writing SELinux policy, which is currently only in NEW. Until it gets added to Sid, you can get sepolgen from: #selinux deb http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/ packages/ deb-src http://people.debian

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 avril 2007 à 18:09 +0200, Reinhard Tartler a écrit : > Sending core dumps is of course debatable, espec. if you cannot assert > that no sensitive information is transmitted. Still, Apport is more than > that. It also describes the mechanism of debug packages (*.ddeb), which > are genera

DKIM and DK Milters: package naming

2007-04-25 Thread Mike Markley
It has been suggested to me that I get some input from the list on the naming of my recently uploaded packages for dkim-milter and dk-milter. I thought I had opened an ITP for this purpose, but it turns out I had not; hence this message. The core issue: Upstream calls the *packages* dkim-milter an

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 avril 2007 à 23:43 +0200, Pierre THIERRY a écrit : > Scribit Daniel Jacobowitz dies 23/04/2007 hora 16:19: > > Another possible way to change glibc would be to have libc6-dbg > > contain full debug symbols, libc6-dev contain -g1 symbols only, and > > have the -dbg divert the -dev. > >

Bug#421026: RFA: mysql-dfsg-5.0 -- MySQL database server

2007-04-25 Thread Christian Hammers
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello I'm looking for an adopter for the MySQL packages as I do no longer have enough time to maintain it and especially prepare the transition to MySQL 5.1 and the intended split-away of the NDB cluster daemons into their own packages. The package is currently co-

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's an 'informational' level below 'warning' in lintian, right? > Perhaps versioned deps that are only relevant to oldstable could be > dropped from W/E to I? Okay, that's two votes for dropping it to I. :) I'll take a closer look at what would b

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:09:30PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > For background, there are numerous checks in lintian that ensure that > dependencies are sufficiently tight to guarantee features used by the > package. Off the top of my head, I know of: > * Depending on a new enough debconf to use

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'd like to get some broader input from the developer community on >> this, since this affects quite a few lintian checks. > I think the provided information is still valuable at some level (for > example it

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'd like to get some broader input from the developer community on this, > since this affects quite a few lintian checks. I think the provided information is still valuable at some level (for example it could be useful to people backporting to oldstabl

Re: Bug#420160: please allow to drop version constraint in B-D when it's in stable

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Package: lintian > Version: 1.23.29 > Hi. > I think that the Build-Dep checks that force a specific version of the > package to be specified should be relaxed once the minimum version is > available in stable. AIUI, it is ok to drop the version constra

Re: lintian.debian.org back up and running

2007-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lintian.debian.org has also been a good way to uncover false positives >> and checks that need tweaking, and I expect quite a lot of that has >> built up. If you see tags from lintian that you believe are wrong >

Re: php4 support will soon be removed from testing/unstable

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 07:34:44PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > if you're a package maintainer and affected by this, you'll probably > want to ensure that your packages work with php5 (and that they no > longer generate any php4-specific variants). i believe someone has > already done the footwork

Re: Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-04-25 às 13:53 -0500, David Moreno Garza escreveu: > That's why the Debian CD team provides Kebian and Xebian for you > :-) calling them like this would make kde people and xfce people to look more to debian ... or not. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Matos
Qua, 2007-04-25 às 13:50 -0500, David Moreno Garza escreveu: > Steve Greenland wrote: > > I'd guess that Bugzilla's mandatory registration is why. OTOH, > > Bugzilla's mandatory is why I rarely report bugs for projects that use > > Bugzilla. I don't think making it harder for users to report proble

Re: Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread David Moreno Garza
Stef Daniels wrote: > Greetings, >I am a happy user of the Debian GNU\Linux > Distribution. I would like to pose a question to the developers, who > may be able to provide the following option: > > Could an option for the installation of a default of KDE, Xfce, or > Gnome Desktops

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread David Moreno Garza
Steve Greenland wrote: > I'd guess that Bugzilla's mandatory registration is why. OTOH, > Bugzilla's mandatory is why I rarely report bugs for projects that use > Bugzilla. I don't think making it harder for users to report problems is > a good trade-off. I totally agree on this. The easier we get

Re: Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread Luis Matos
Qui, 2007-04-26 às 04:02 +0930, Stef Daniels escreveu: > Hi Greg and others, > > On 26/04/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like these: > > > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso

Re: Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread Stef Daniels
Hi Greg and others, On 26/04/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Like these: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-kde-CD-1.iso http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-cd/debian-40r0-i386-xfce-CD-1.iso Yes there are these options.. Or so

Re: Feature request for GnuPG crypted Debian packages

2007-04-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Pierre, Am 2007-04-25 00:17:03, schrieb Pierre THIERRY: > Scribit Michelle Konzack dies 24/04/2007 hora 16:40: > > I would suggest to add a new header like "Crypted: " and then > > crypt the data.tar.gz (in the Debian package). > > I think you're targetting the wrong layer of the system. If

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries?

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:43:02PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Daniel Jacobowitz dies 23/04/2007 hora 16:19: > > Another possible way to change glibc would be to have libc6-dbg > > contain full debug symbols, libc6-dev contain -g1 symbols only, and > > have the -dbg divert the -dev. > >

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:45:06PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I have been dealing with gcc's bugzilla, KDE's bugs.kde.org, mozilla's bug > tracking system etc., I never ever received any spam messages from these > bug tracking systems. The spam emails seem to come only from BTS. May be w

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Steve Greenland
On 25-Apr-07, 11:45 (CDT), Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been dealing with gcc's bugzilla, KDE's bugs.kde.org, mozilla's bug > tracking system etc., I never ever received any spam messages from these > bug tracking systems. The spam emails seem to come only from BTS. Ma

php4 support will soon be removed from testing/unstable

2007-04-25 Thread sean finney
hi folks, just a heads up, php4 will not be supported in lenny and will be disappearing from the unstable trees sometime in the not too distant future. support will continue for sarge/etch as usual, but it was agreed upon internally within the pkg-php maintainer group and later with members of t

Re: Proposal for a new CDD sub-project: Debian4Business

2007-04-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-24 19:05:47, schrieb Luis Matos: > > My CD provides ALL packages for the installation of Office-Workstations > > and required server (postgresql, apache, nfs, samba, cups, courier...) > > humm ... would you like to share? I create the CD's per customer and currently I am recreating the

Re: Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 02:25 +0930, Stef Daniels wrote: > Greetings, > I am a happy user of the Debian GNU\Linux > Distribution. I would like to pose a question to the developers, who > may be able to provide the following option: > > Could an option for the installation of a defaul

Installation Desktop Option.

2007-04-25 Thread Stef Daniels
Greetings, I am a happy user of the Debian GNU\Linux Distribution. I would like to pose a question to the developers, who may be able to provide the following option: Could an option for the installation of a default of KDE, Xfce, or Gnome Desktops for the installer as their prefer

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> > How does everyone deal with this (I mean other than filtering)? >> >> If anyone is doing a substantially better job of filtering than the >> bts is, let [EMAIL PROTECTED] know; but in general you should just >> see the few spammers who end up being successful. > I

Bug#420967: ITP: lunar-applet -- A GNOME Timer applet replacement

2007-04-25 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: lunar-applet Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Wu Xiaotian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dev.inlsd.org/projects/lunar-applet/wiki * License : GPL Programming Lang: C De

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 17:01 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Perhaps we should really propose a "Day of No Spam-Filtering" on > lists.d.o. ;-) Umm, is there enough BANDWIDTH ON THE ENTARWEB to support that? /me thinks not -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The technology that is Stronger, better, fas

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 01:08:32 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > Of late, I have been seeing a lot of spam from bugs.debian.org . I never got > > this many spam emails from BTS. Has something changed? > > Not really; it's just the continuing

Re: Mandatory -dbg packages for libraries? (and API docs too)

2007-04-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:12:46AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If we are talking about hand-written documentation you're of course > > right. However if you're talking about documentation which can be > > generated automatically from sources (and not that it was the "ideal" > > point of Neil)

Re: [ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex

2007-04-25 Thread Frank Küster
OHURA Makoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Frank and all. > > # I'm reading debian-tex-maint. > > From: Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [ITH] xmltex, passivetex, offer to take over jadetex > Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:46:15 +0200 > >> We offer to do the same with jadetex, if Ohura

Bug#420953: ITP: gscan2pdf -- GUI for scanning/editing multipage PDFs and TIFFs

2007-04-25 Thread John Goerzen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: gscan2pdf Version : 0.9.7 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Ratcliffe * URL : http://gscan2pdf.sf.net/ * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: Perl-GTK Description : GUI for sc

Bug#420938: ITP: mirbase -- The microRNA sequence database

2007-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: mirbase Version : 9.1 Upstream Author : mirRBase is maintained by the Sanger center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/ License : Public Domain

Bug#420901: ITP: libhandoff -- handoff library for GPE calendar

2007-04-25 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhandoff Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Neal H. Walfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : cvs.handhelds.org:/cvs/gpe/base/libhandoff/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: spam from bugs.debian.org

2007-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Of late, I have been seeing a lot of spam from bugs.debian.org . I never got > this many spam emails from BTS. Has something changed? Not really; it's just the continuing battle between spammers and Blars (and to a lesser extent, the rest of us w