Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Actually, policy is usually the last thing that you want to > do, in the general case. Policy is usually stable (well, not quite as > stable as it has been this year, but work seems to be easing up a > trifle, so expect a policy release in

Re: Proposal regarding future packaging

2007-09-21 Thread Oleg Verych (Gmane)
21-09-2007, Bruce Sass: > On Thu September 20 2007 09:25:23 pm Oleg Verych (Gmane) wrote: >> 19-09-2007, Bruce Sass: >> > I'm hoping the dpkg "triggers" functionality Ian Jackson has been >> > working on will help solve that wart though. >> >> How exactly? > > Exactly? I don't know. I haven't follo

Bug#443528: ITP: xmms-pulse -- Pulseaudio Output plugin for xmms

2007-09-21 Thread Thomas GOIRAND
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xmms-pulse Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Lennart Poettering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/xmms-pulse/ * License : GPL v2 Programmin

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 22, Peter Eckersley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means, in practice, that many sites will be able to track Debian > users by their User-Agent, even if (say) the user is blocking cookies or > limiting them to a single session and is changing IP address regularly. This is highly debateab

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Peter Eckersley wrote: > > What do people think of picking a single User-Agent string for all > versions of all of Debian's Gecko-based browsers? > It would be sort of pointless unless we could find a way to all browse from the same IP address. Regards,

User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-21 Thread Peter Eckersley
Consider for a moment a typical User-Agent string sent by a Debian web browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 Iceape/1.1.4 (Debian-1.1.4-1) Unfortunately, the fact that this information identifies a specific package and version of that package means that Debi

Re: Bug#440577: libdkim-dev: Package namespace conflict

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Markley
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 06:33:51PM -0700, Mike Markley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:46:18PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Both dkim-milter and libdkim builds libdkim-dev, and libdkim0 and libdkim2 > > conflict too, even though the names aren't

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Manoj Srivastava [Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:51:03 -0500]: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:08:12 +0300, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > At the very least, lintian should stop warning about Homepage:, right? > > (Sorry if it already doesn't warn, I haven't had time to upgrade and > > the machine

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:08:12 +0300, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > pe, 2007-09-21 kello 16:44 +0200, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: >> * Christian Perrier [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200]: >> >> > Again, please comment, >> >> Personally, I think the change that should really go first is

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
pe, 2007-09-21 kello 16:44 +0200, Adeodato Simó kirjoitti: > * Christian Perrier [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200]: > > > Again, please comment, > > Personally, I think the change that should really go first is lintian/linda > (emitting a warning for packages that put the homepage in the descript

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-21 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 21 septembre 2007 à 20:49 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld a écrit : > Whats so bad about this? FOSS is much about choice, isn't it? Why > shouldn't the user have the choice to select from different tools? In my > humble opinion it does not make so much sense to pack those tools > together jus

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-21 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Mike Hommey schrieb: > What are we going to see next ? Yet another package because someone else > will feel none of gitpkg or git-buildpackage fit his needs ? Whats so bad about this? FOSS is much about choice, isn't it? Why shouldn't the user have the choice to select from different tools? In my

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:53:34PM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:42:52AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:49:26AM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > > > > * Package name: gitpkg > > > Description :

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Christian Perrier [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200]: > Again, please comment, Personally, I think the change that should really go first is lintian/linda (emitting a warning for packages that put the homepage in the description), since that's what will make most packages change, and will give t

ITP: libconvert-pem-perl -- It reads and writes PEM files contaiining ASN.1 -encoded objects.

2007-09-21 Thread Deepak Tripathi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Deepak Tripathi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name : libconvert-pem-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Benjamin Trott, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~btrott/Convert-PEM-0.07/

Re: Bug#443222: ITP: uriparser -- URI parsing library compliant with RFC 3986

2007-09-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Elimar Riesebieter [Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:06:21 +0200]: > It looks like it can be used to strip uri's out of MUA to view i.e. > inet pages similar to urlview? I don't know, so you'd have to ask upstream, but personally I doubt it. Cheers, -- Adeodato Simó da

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Homepage thing, I would much rather see a working design, supported by > apt and p.d.o, make any changes or tweaks as are needed; and _then_ we p.d.o already supports it. "apt-cache show" obviouly displays the field. The work left concerns higher-l

Bug#443437: ITP: innotop -- A mysql and innodb monitor

2007-09-21 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: innotop Version : 1.4.3 Upstream Author : Baron Schwartz * URL : http://innotop.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl Description : A mysql a

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:02:56 +0200, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Quoting Lars Wirzenius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I'd start with amending the Developers' Reference, then having a test >> added to lintian and linda, and after that announcing it on >> debian-devel-announce. Then next

Proposed menu changes

2007-09-21 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, While in the process of working on a new fvwm package, I noticed that the Menu policy has changed some of the old titles to new ones. For example, WindowManagers => "Window Managers", Modules => "FVWM Module" (which is incorrect; the correct way to address the wm is Fvwm).

Re: [RFC] Promoting the use of "Homepage:" field in debian/control

2007-09-21 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Hi, IANADD but... Christian Perrier wrote: > Then file a bug against *apt* packages and p.d.o to have them support > displaying info from that field, before or after the d-d-a > announcement. you wrote what I thought when I read this proposal. After all it makes sense to first add support for th

Re: Bug#443406: Use of our external site embedded into a Debian file

2007-09-21 Thread Varun Hiremath
Hi all, On Fri, 21 Sep, 2007 at 07:35:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Package: liquidlnf > Priority: Normal > Version: 2.9.1-2 > > Please stop using sitetruth.com in your debian/watch -- I think it would > be preferable to just disable the watch file until uscan gets https > support, if it does

Re: Bug#443392: ITP: gitpkg -- helper scripts for maintaining packages with git

2007-09-21 Thread Ron
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:42:52AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:49:26AM +0930, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > > > * Package name: gitpkg > > Description : helper scripts for maintaining packages with git > > > > This packages provides som