Re: How to detect if inside a buildd chroot

2007-09-28 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Roger Leigh wrote: > You can't reliably (or portably) check if you are in a chroot. Hmm, if you're root you probably can. Something like this (completely untested; probably doesn't even compile): DIR *d; int fd; struct stat s1, s2; mkdir("temp", 0700); d = opendir("/"); f

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-28 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:04:00 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There is some other thing I do not like about the way Debian packages > work. Every package I install can actually completely compromise my > system, because the maintainer scripts are run as root. You can, of

Bug#444485: ITP: python-pynxt -- Lego Mindstorms NXT Python interface

2007-09-28 Thread David Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pynxt Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : David Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://ssl.natulte.net/nxos/devel * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:40:39AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 13:49 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > "You" don't distribute the package? > > Ben Finney is not a Debian Developer. The views expressed by Ben Finney on > > this mailing list are not representa

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > I'm working on infrastructure to aid generation of cross-compiler > packages (a templating mechanism that generates the necessary Package > stanzas in debian/control from another file that uses a descriptive > language; "debian-xcontrol" would be the package you are looking for, > however th

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 13:49 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > "You" don't distribute the package? > > Ben Finney is not a Debian Developer. The views expressed by Ben Finney on > this mailing list are not representative of the views of the Debian Project > or any of its members. Oh, co

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney is not a Debian Developer. The views expressed by Ben > Finney on this mailing list are not representative of the views of > the Debian Project or any of its members. With the caveat "not *necessarily* representative", we agree on that. --

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Finney
Andre Majorel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2007-09-27 16:39 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > I think [valid contact information for copyright holders at the > > time of packaging] should be required, in order that Debian users > > can have more confidence [0] in the copyright status of works in >

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Finney
Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My only complaint is that alot of website traffic analyzer programs > pick up the debian iceweasel browser as "unknown browser" and > "unknown operating system" That's a bug in those web sites, of course. They shouldn't even be trying to sniff User-Agent to

Re: semi-virtual packages?

2007-09-28 Thread Bruce Sass
Someone wrote: > If you actually need to make this sort of response, could you do the > rest of us a favor and not do so publicly? Ya, you're right. Sorry. My frustration got the better of me. - Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:04:00PM +0200, Martin Uecker wrote: > > There is some other thing I do not like about the way Debian > packages work. Every package I install can actually completely > compromise my system, because the maintainer scripts are run > as root. It would be nice if normal pack

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Uecker
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:05:59AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Martin Uecker wrote: > > You are seriously stating that is as easy to hide a trojan in the > > source code as in the binary? > > Consider the fact that we've already had such a case,[1] whereas we've > not (to my

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 10:13:39PM +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > On 2007-09-27 16:39 +1000, 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 pa

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, David Anderson wrote: But, if there is precedent, it might not be too painful to mimick existing cross-compiler packages to build my own. I'll see what I can do. Please coordinate any such effort with [EMAIL PROTECTED] :-) I'm working on infrastructure to aid generation of cross-compiler

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread David Anderson
On 9/28/07, Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pro: feels like the Right Way, in a perfect world. Cons: opens the > > floodgates of packaging cross-compilers, likely requires > > additions/modifications to packaging tools, and takes way more time > > than I'm personally ready to put into pa

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-27 16:39 +1000, 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 think this

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Ian Jackson
David Anderson writes ("Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code"): > 2) Package an arm7 cross-compiling gcc with just the right set of > options, integrate that with the packaging tools, and then package > with a Build-Depends on the cross-compiler. > > Pro: feels like the Right Way,

Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

2007-09-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Finney writes ("Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file"): > I argue that the only fair place to draw the line is "valid RFC 2821 > email address". The alternative is to leave it to ongoing subjective > judgement of unspecified Debian parties as to which addresses make > sense or no

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Martin Uecker wrote: > You are seriously stating that is as easy to hide a trojan in the > source code as in the binary? Consider the fact that we've already had such a case,[1] whereas we've not (to my knowledge) distributed a trojaned binary. I'm not sure which is easier to

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread David Anderson
On 9/27/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is the way to go unless you get some concrete objections. > There is certainly precedent - see for instance the ia32-libs / > amd64-libs packages (which are frowned upon for whole different > reasons). [replying here, but this

Bug#444448: ITP: twiki-ldapcontrib -- LDAP services for TWiki

2007-09-28 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi. I intent to propose a generic Debian package for the following software. We've made a local package already, on an old version of the program, which suited our needs for the PicoForge platform (some details at http

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julien BLACHE wrote: >> 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 pla

Bug#444443: ITP: net-dns-resolver-programmable-perl -- programmable DNS resolver class for offline emulation of DNS

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: net-dns-resolver-programmable-perl Version : 0.003.1 Upstream Author : Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-DNS-Resolver-Programmable/ * Licen

Bug#444442: ITP: mail-spf-perl -- Perl implementation of Sender Policy Framework and Sender ID

2007-09-28 Thread Julian Mehnle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mail-spf-perl Version : 2.005 Upstream Author : Julian Mehnle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-SPF/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
Julien BLACHE wrote: > 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 cont

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-28 Thread Sam Leon
My only complaint is that alot of website traffic analyzer programs pick up the debian iceweasel browser as "unknown browser" and "unknown operating system" Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#444415: ITP: tklib -- The standard Tk library

2007-09-28 Thread Sergei Golovan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergei Golovan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: tklib Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Various people (every module has its own author(s)) * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcllib/ * License : BSD Programming

Bug#444409: ITP: emusic-remote -- browser and download manager for eMusic.com

2007-09-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: emusic-remote Version : 1.0.0.1 Upstream Author : emusic.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/emusicremote/ * License : LGPL

Re: Link Exchange Request

2007-09-28 Thread Serviced Apartments London
Sorry i cant add ur link, i need atleast PR-3 link pages: My link info are here - if any one interested please let me know: Dear Webmaster, I'm a webmaster of following travel related websites: http://www.apartotels.com/ http://www.discountcityhotels.net/ http://www.discountcityhotels.com

Bug#444392: ITP: miniupnpc -- UPnP IGD client lightweight library

2007-09-28 Thread Thomas GOIRAND
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: miniupnpc Version : 1.0-RC9 Upstream Author : Thomas Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://miniupnp.free.fr/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description

Bug#444399: ITP: minissdpd -- UPnP IGD discovery speed enhancer for miniupnpc

2007-09-28 Thread Thomas GOIRAND
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: minissdpd Version : 1.0-RC9 Upstream Author : Thomas Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://miniupnp.free.fr/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description

Bug#444393: ITP: miniupnpd -- UPnP IGD lightweight daemon

2007-09-28 Thread Thomas GOIRAND
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: miniupnpd Version : 1.0-RC9 Upstream Author : Thomas Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, C++ Description

Re: Building packages with exact binary matches

2007-09-28 Thread Martin Uecker
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:31:58PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:28:47 +0200, Martin Uecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > >> But recompiling from what? If you do not get the exact same source, > >> you have no hope of getting the same result. > > > I had the impre

Bug#444390: ITP: python-contract -- Programming by contract for python

2007-09-28 Thread Mike O'Connor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Mike O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-contract Version : 1.4-1 Upstreem Author : Terence Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.wayforward.net/pycontract/ * License : Python License, GPL-3, Artist

Re: Re: hoi gia ve may bay

2007-09-28 Thread TranTuan QuocTuan
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Re: Bug#444368: ITP: dvd95 -- DVD9 to DVD5 converter

2007-09-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 septembre 2007 à 13:17 +1000, Paul Wise a écrit : > 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