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: 308 (new: 2)
Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 76 (new: 0)
Total number of packages requeste
Peter Eckersley wrote:
> 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
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:26 -0300, Carlos Laviola wrote:
> * Needs no additional packages - embedded versions of vamps and
> dvdauthor are used, to be as fast as possible.
Please notify the Debian security team so they can add dvd95, vamps,
dvdauthor to their list of packages with duplicate
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: dvd95
Version : 1.2p1
Upstream Author : J. F. Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://dvd95.sourceforge.net/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C
Description : DV
Dear Debian Developers,
the X Strike Force intends to remove libxaw6 from the archive.
The reason is explained in bug #172890. In short, libxaw6 has a
security flaw where it displays passwords in plain text.
The flaw is fixed in libxaw7. All packages in Debian now use libxaw7
rather than libxa
On Thu September 27 2007 05:38:53 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:49 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > The bit you're still missing is the first part of the question you
> > didn't answer: "Is there any situation where ownership has
> > collided"
> >
> > IOW: if
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:28:47 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:26:49AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:31:51 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> said:
>>
>> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wro
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:08:49 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The bit you're still missing is the first part of the question you
> didn't answer: "Is there any situation where ownership has collided"
> IOW: if the file shared by many packages isn't having ownership
> problems there
Hello!
A new ThinkFinger [1] package has been uploaded to experimental [2]:
this package was built with PAM in unstable and since a while it's
working with no major problems on my sid. I wrote "major" because
there're indeed some problems (links available at [2])...
1) not all the application th
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Patrick Schoenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: libmowgli
Version : 0.4.0
Upstream Author : Atheme Project
* URL : http://www.atheme-project.org/projects/mowgli.shtml
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: C
Descript
On torsdagen den 27 september 2007, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The only other thing you need to worry about is filing a bug report
> > against ftp.debian.org to get the old php4-ps source package removed,
> > since this won't
Am 2007-09-22 11:16:55, schrieb Peter Eckersley:
> But maybe you use open wifi networks, and other Debian users also use
> those networks. Maybe there are other Debian users behind your NAT.
> Maybe your friends come over sometimes and they also use Debian. In
> those cases, standardising the Use
Sorry for the late reply but currently I am porting a new architecture
and have not very much time...
Am 2007-09-21 18:03:05, schrieb 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
Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think we need a change in policy for handling cases where free
> software requires free software in order to compile which is, non the
> less, non buildable on the same platform.
It exists already, it's called the contrib section of the archive.
JB.
David Anderson wrote:
> Therefore, question: how should I get from this situation to having a
> working .deb (including the cross-compiled driver), while at the same
> time playing nicely with Debian packaging policies?
>
In the general case, the problem is much wider. Let me give you an example
Holger Levsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Whether or not it its an requirement to be able to contact the
> author, doesnt have anything to do with obfuscating the email
> address or not. (Assuming its not obfuscated beyond recognitition.)
That just pushes the question to a different location, w
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:54:08PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> > On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said:
> > > > I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have writte
On Thu September 27 2007 01:33:21 am Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:04:33 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hmm? You assumed, and I quote "there are no such situations
> which would not already have a virtual package". Since there are
> situations where the
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said:
> > > I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written...
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > > > Obfuscation which can easily be rever
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:59:16AM +0200, David Anderson wrote:
> 1) Ship a built copy of the code in the package's .diff.gz, and DTRT
> at package creation time to move the .bin from debian/ to the right
> place in the staging tree. The source code for the .bin is in
> .orig.tar.gz, under a free l
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 03:23:04AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> 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
I was hoping I had sufficiently advertised the proposal and the changes
so that it
Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> You're wrong.
that...
> If the package in testing is RC buggy it will get removed by the release
> team before release anyway.
and that is good to know, thanks for the correction/explenation ;)
--
Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3, CH-4562 Biberist
Ema
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:38:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> (Otherwise, you'd be building the arch: all package from the binary-arch
> rule on arm only; this would work, but cause brain-twistiness wrt the
> separation between arch: all and arch: any.)
sbuild does not allow this.
Bastian
--
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 12:59:18PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said:
> > I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written...
> >
> > [snip]
> > > Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily by
> > > a
> > > computer, doe
Dear Aníbal,
I uploaded the button and axis remapping patch against
joystick/20051019-1.1. This most recent patch also includes updates for
the jscal manpage, documenting the new command line arguments.
Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Laszlo Kajan
Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote:
> On Tu
This one time, at band camp, Darren Salt said:
> I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written...
>
> [snip]
> > Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily by a
> > computer, does not render contact information incorrect. If I write my
> > e-mail address as f
I demand that Lars Wirzenius may or may not have written...
[snip]
> Obfuscation which can easily be reversed by a human, but not so easily by a
> computer, does not render contact information incorrect. If I write my
> e-mail address as follows, it's still correct: "My full name is Lars Ivar
> Wi
On 9/27/07, Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 4) Give up and stay away from the Debian main repositories, just put
> > the package up on a private package repository.
>
> Please don't choose this way to solve the problem. Lego Mindstorms are
> used a lot for education, including universi
Daniel Baumann wrote, Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:43 AM
out of curiousity.. imagine a package where:
* the Debian maintainer is also upstream maintainer
* the package has practically no users (popcon << 10)
* the package has RC bugs
* the RC bugs are fixed upstream
* the RC bugs are ta
Hi,
out of curiousity.. imagine a package where:
* the Debian maintainer is also upstream maintainer
* the package has practically no users (popcon << 10)
* the package has RC bugs
* the RC bugs are fixed upstream
* the RC bugs are tagged pending in the BTS
* the fixed package doesn't
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:26:49AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:31:51 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> >> Just because you have _heard_ anyone diss special relativity being
> >> t
* Francesco P. Lovergine [Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:01:34 +0200]:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > The only other thing you need to worry about is filing a bug report against
> > ftp.debian.org to get the old php4-ps source package removed, since this
> > won't happ
Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:33:40PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > > Ah, security through blissful ignorance :) You do not
> > > actually trust the archive, or the developers, you trust the
> > > s
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 07:26:51PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> The only other thing you need to worry about is filing a bug report against
> ftp.debian.org to get the old php4-ps source package removed, since this
> won't happen automatically.
>
If it is not still required in stable/oldstab
Hi,
On Thursday 27 September 2007 08:39, Ben Finney wrote:
> Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't think there is any requirement to have any upstream contact
> > information whatsoever in order to be able to distribute a package.
> This seems to be the point of disagreement. I th
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Michal Čihař" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Package name: pyexiv2
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Olivier Tilloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://tilloy.net/dev/pyexiv2/
* License : GPL
Programming Lang: C++/Python
Descrip
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:04:33 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue September 25 2007 09:22:02 am Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:36:24 -0600, Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> > On Sun September 23 2007 03:08:59 pm Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> On Sun, 23 Se
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:31:51 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:25:02AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> Just because you have _heard_ anyone diss special relativity being
>> the sole reason to believe in it is in the same ball park as
>> blissful, you k
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