Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-05 Thread Tom Moore
I get the same thing as well. Lots of my machines hang on pulling package lists sometimes, and they hang for sure on package updates. Tom On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:41:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Hi, > > 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been > unreachable

US mirror troubles

2007-09-05 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been unreachable on port 80 from all the networks I have access to for days. This is ftp.egr.msu.edu. It is also still listed at http://www.debian.org/mirror/list It is listed "bad" at http://mirror.debian.org/status.html Can

Re: debian/rules and environment variables

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:51:30 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > On a related note, I'm thinking that *all* packages using ./configure > > should be using: > > DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > > DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-archite

Bug#440975: ITP: libhx -- a C library providing queues, trees, I/O and utility functions

2007-09-05 Thread Bastian Kleineidam
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bastian Kleineidam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libhx Version : 1.10.0 Upstream Author : Jan Engelhardt * URL : http://freshmeat.net/projects/libhx/ * License : GPL2,

Re: debian/rules and environment variables

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > On a related note, I'm thinking that *all* packages using ./configure > should be using: > DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) > DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE := $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) > ... > ./configure --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) --build=$(DEB

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Delivery Status Notification]

2007-09-05 Thread Max Vozeler
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 11:34:05AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > The manpages-es maintainer's e-mail bounces. Does anyone know how to > contact Rubén Porras Campo? I spoke with Rubén and told him about the mail troubles. I think he can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for now. He said he'll be makin

Bug#440968: ITP: qmailadmin -- web interface for managing a qmail system with virtual domains

2007-09-05 Thread Giuseppe Iuculano
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Giuseppe Iuculano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: qmailadmin Version : 1.2.11 Upstream Author : Ken Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/qmailadmin/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Re: Agreement between parties achieved on IRC (Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?)

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:33:40PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Just a quick note to say that after some discussion in #debian-devel > involving Daniel, Patrick, and Michael, and fostered by various DDs > (azeem, buxy, Ganneff, myself), a solution to resolve this situation was > achieved. > Can

Re: debian/rules and environment variables

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 19:31:48 +0200 Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It has been suggested in bug #411520 that cdbs should be set up so that > it preserves CFLAGS set in the environment. But I haven't found any > clear specification about how debian/rules, being a makefile, should >

debian/rules and environment variables

2007-09-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
It has been suggested in bug #411520 that cdbs should be set up so that it preserves CFLAGS set in the environment. But I haven't found any clear specification about how debian/rules, being a makefile, should deal with environment variables. The best I could find is Policy 10.1 which states th

Re: Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 06:45:18PM +0200, arno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007, à 17:50:35 +0200, Mike a écrit : > > > > Actually, it *does* allow global extensions, but applications embedding > > libxul or using xulrunner have to initialize the extensions manager by >

Re: Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread arno
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007, à 17:50:35 +0200, Mike a écrit : > > Actually, it *does* allow global extensions, but applications embedding > libxul or using xulrunner have to initialize the extensions manager by > themselves in order to get these extensions enabled. This is something that > is,

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > That's one of the (too many) things I've got on my todo list - get > myself trained as a proper Debian developer. For the moment, I just > have some scripts (mostly inherited, I've only had time to clean them > up so far) that do the packaging mostly right; the scripts know more > about Debi

Re: Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:11:51PM +0200, arno renevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: arno renevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > * Package name: xulrunner-l10n > Version : 1.8.1-1 > Upstream Author : Mozilla Project and Mozilla Localization

Bug#440938: ITP: xulrunner-l10n -- language packages for xulrunner

2007-09-05 Thread arno renevier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: arno renevier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xulrunner-l10n Version : 1.8.1-1 Upstream Author : Mozilla Project and Mozilla Localization Projects * URL : http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/ * License : GPL, LGPL, a

Agreement between parties achieved on IRC (Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?)

2007-09-05 Thread Adeodato Simó
Just a quick note to say that after some discussion in #debian-devel involving Daniel, Patrick, and Michael, and fostered by various DDs (azeem, buxy, Ganneff, myself), a solution to resolve this situation was achieved. In particular, development will return to the pkg-virtualbox Alioth project (P

sshd defaults (Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix)

2007-09-05 Thread Oleg Verych (Gmane)
05-09-2007, Gabor Gombas: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:26:41PM +, Oleg Verych: gmane reading wrote: > >> I.e *i don't care* about entering passwords on middle ground, without >> knowing, WTF this installer may do with them, not having comfortable >> environment for that _important_ action. >>

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Zitat von "Roberto C. Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Dynamic linking is what the security team likes since it means that you > >only update the code once for the whole system. However, in the event > >that there is an update whic

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Steffen: >> So, the Debian community would have someone (and sadly only one) who can >> inspect your source and fix issues that arise. The benefit I see for Opera >> is >> a further decreased footprint. Bernd: > if opera would be come open-source, I'd be willing to co-maintain and > check packag

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Zitat von "Roberto C. Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dynamic linking is what the security team likes since it means that you only update the code once for the whole system. However, in the event that there is an update which makes the library non-binary compatible, then there is another problem.

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:49:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > > This was no good work which was quicked hacked together. > I'm sorry, but when I upload a new upstream release of Django, I don't > check every new file. > It's all good that you do

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:39:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > I have no idea what Daniel really did on the package. > I did about 90% of the inital packaging. Which just left the last 90% of the packaging, I guess. > Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > So, the Debian community would have someone (and sadly only one) who can > inspect your source and fix issues that arise. The benefit I see for Opera is > a further decreased footprint. > > if opera would be come open-source, I'd be willing to co-maintain and check packages - it would b

Bug#440925: ITP: es-shooter -- shooter game

2007-09-05 Thread Debian Games Team
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: es-shooter Version : 1.0a Upstream Author : HIZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hizuoka.web.fc2.com/game/ES/ES_d.zip * License : http://www5.atwiki.jp/yaruhara/page

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:16:07PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 13:23:46 Edward Welbourne wrote: > > > I'm confused. Pierre appears to be saying "static is bad", Bruce > > "closed must be static". We have both static and shared packages, so > > you can take y

Bug#440924: ITP: projectl -- sword action shooting

2007-09-05 Thread Debian Games Team
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: projectl Version : 1.001 Upstream Author : HIZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hizuoka.web.fc2.com/game/projectL/index_en.html * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, e

Re: [PROPOSAL] virtual package for Japanese font package name

2007-09-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 22:15 +0900, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu a écrit : > * The creation of new alternative name: > - ttf-japanese-mincho.ttf > - ttf-japanese-gothic.ttf > 3. The application that specifies a specific Japanese font package > dependency > replaces its dependency to t

Bug#440923: ITP: tatan -- pointing STG shooter game

2007-09-05 Thread Debian Games Team
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tatan Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : HIZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://hizuoka.web.fc2.com/game/tatan/index_en.html * License : http://www5.atwiki.jp/yaruhara/pa

[PROPOSAL] virtual package for Japanese font package name

2007-09-05 Thread Nobuhiro Iwamatsu
Hi all. We, the Japanese font packages maintainers and their collaborators (Japanese Task Force: JTF), propose following action items to ease the task of the default font selection for applications under the Debian system. * The creation of new virtual package name: - ttf-japanese-mincho

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Steffen Moeller
Dear Edward, many thanks for joining in. On Wednesday 05 September 2007 13:23:46 Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Opera could offer an apt repository for the .deb > > We already do :-) > Here's the line from my /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://deb.opera.com/opera/ testing non-free I was pointed

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007, Patrick Winnertz wrote: > This was no good work which was quicked hacked together. I'm sorry, but when I upload a new upstream release of Django, I don't check every new file. It's all good that you do it, but it's not necessarily a requirement and I find it hard to blame da

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > The upload after the debconf shows me that you doesn't really check what > you do there. This package was done and uploaded by Phillip, not me. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: ht

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > I add it to the svn you removed it and when i ask you why you do it, you > told me that the tarballs doesn't belong into svn. you never mention any > other place where to put the tarball. > > The only thing you mentioned were debian/rules upstream to build it, so > t

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:01:39PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > My point is, that it is, of course, a serious error, but not a critical > one. It may have not been put well enough in words by me. I cannot speak for our ftp admins here, but I definitely would call this very critical if I was one

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:08:47PM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Michael Meskes wrote: > > Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). You're kidding right? This has to be a joke. Please tell me it is. Or is there another em

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 14:01:39 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > NO. There is absolutely no reason to *knowingly* upload a non-free > > tarball, even named ".dfsg". > > For the records: I did *not* knowingly see that one. Yes. bt a simply "find . -type f | sort > /tmp/new

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2007 à 14:08 +0200, Daniel Baumann a écrit : > Michael Meskes wrote: > > Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). If there are restrictions on the package name, this definitely looks like something

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Julien BLACHE
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). Please post this explanation to -private. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key a

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 12:54:23 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > tarballs can be produced with the invokation of 'debian/rules upstream'. > > it is debatable if the upstream tarball has to be inside the svn, rather > than the alioth webspace (which I recommended you to do instead). other > teams,

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Meskes wrote: > Are we talking about the same upstream here? i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://people.panthera-systems.net/~da

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:39:42AM +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote: > Upstream is generally cooperative and understands the problems, hence I > see this a bit more relaxed (for the next few days only, until it's > sorted out). However, if ftp-master do disagree, I'll can re-upload > 1.4.0, superseeding

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > NO. There is absolutely no reason to *knowingly* upload a non-free > tarball, even named ".dfsg". For the records: I did *not* knowingly see that one. > "Yay, Upstream understands the problem, lets upload non-free crap to main" > does > not work. My point is, that it is,

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Edward Welbourne
Hi debian-devel, > The web of trust gave me Mr Johan Herland as the only member of strong set > and I took the freedom to place him on the CC line. Johan forwarded you to me. For reference, dpkg -s, or the package's control file, would have told you: Maintainer: Opera Packaging Team <[EMAIL PR

Bug#440914: ITP: sketch -- produce 3D line drawings from scene description language

2007-09-05 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: sketch Version : 0.2.9 Upstream Author : Eugene Ressler * URL : http://www.frontiernet.net/~eugene.ressler * License : Unknown "Copyleft" Programming Lang: C Descripti

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11133 March 1977, Michael Meskes wrote: Not rating the act of adding/removing maintainers in an upload, just one thing: > But he not just added himself, he also changed some packaging stuff and > upgraded to a new upstream version. This seems to be done in a hurry as > he missed some licensing

Re: Bug#440823: ITP: kelbt -- backtracking LR parser

2007-09-05 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:24:18PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > Description : backtracking LR parser > > > > Kelbt generates backtracking LALR(1) parsers. Standard LALR(1) parser > > If it is a parser _generator_, mention this in de short description as > well. absolutely correct, will

Bug#440911: ITP: policyd-spf-fs -- Postfix policy server for SPF checking

2007-09-05 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: policyd-spf-fs Version : 0+svn21 Upstream Author : Matthias Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freestone.net/software/policyd-spf-fs/ * License : LGPL 2.1 and/

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Patrick Winnertz wrote: > I started to check in the dfsg- tarball and you remove it again from the > svn... who should a team work on a package if they doesn't use the same > tarball at all? tarballs can be produced with the invokation of 'debian/rules upstream'. it is debatable if the upstream

Re: Accepted librpcsecgss 0.14-2etch1 (source i386)

2007-09-05 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:56:21AM +, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Format: 1.7 >Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 20:54:40 + >Source: librpcsecgss >Binary: librpcsecgss-dev librpcsecgss3 >Architecture: source i386 >Version: 0.14-2etch1 >Distribution: sta

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Patrick Winnertz
Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2007 11:39:42 schrieb Daniel Baumann: > I did about 90% of the inital packaging. I removed one line from the changelog.. sorry for this. I'll readd it within the next upload. > Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the two last uploads > (virtualbox 1.4.0svn4130-

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Ben Finney
Johan Herland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for the email. I can assure you that there are many Debianers > at Opera, although my personal preference is Gentoo. :) > > We're genuinely interested in making our product work as well as > possible on Debian (and as many other distros as practi

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-05 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:26:41PM +, Oleg Verych: gmane reading wrote: > I.e *i don't care* about entering passwords on middle ground, without > knowing, WTF this installer may do with them, not having comfortable > environment for that _important_ action. > > Thus i have silly, empty passwo

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michael Meskes wrote: > I have no idea > what Daniel really did on the package. I did about 90% of the inital packaging. Can be seen on http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-virtualbox/ > I cannot find him in the > changelog file. Patrick uploaded removed me from changelog in the two last uploads (vir

Bug#440901: ITP: val-and-rick -- shooter game

2007-09-05 Thread Debian Games Team
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Games Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: val-and-rick Version : 0.1a Upstream Author : Kenta Cho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~cs8k-cyu/windows/vr0_1a.zip * License : BSD Programmi

virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, I might be running on incomplete information, but to me it seems that we had a package hijack over night. Being an uploader and thus part of the team I'm more than just interested in this and would like the parties to speak up here and explain. Here's what I know so far: Both, Patrick Winnert

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Johan Herland
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Steffen Moeller wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007 06:46:47 Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Mon August 27 2007 05:33:05 pm Romain Beauxis wrote: > > > Le Tuesday 28 August 2007 00:17:40 Bruce Sass, vous avez écrit : > > > > On Mon August 27 2007 04:05:24 pm Pierre Habouzit wrote

Re: menu policy & use of doc-base for programming documentation

2007-09-05 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:59:44PM +, Frank Küster wrote: > We have a similar problem with TeX documentation. In my opinion, using menu > categories for doc-base might have been a good start, but we should definitely > extend that now. > > I'm currently in semi-VAC mode and don't have time to

Bug#440895: ITP: libgssglue-0.1 -- mechanism-switch gssapi library

2007-09-05 Thread Aníbal Monsalve Salazar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anibal Monsalve Salazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 03:52:47PM -0400, Kevin Coffman wrote: >Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:52:47 -0400 >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Kevin Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: nfsv4 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject