Re: QA needed for insecure LD_LIBRARY_PATH in many wrapper scripts

2007-11-19 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Stefan Fritsch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [071116 13:03]: > is unset. (Actually, some scripts use "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH+: > $LD_LIBRARY_PATH}", which seems to work, too. But this is not > documented in the bash man page, at least I can't find it.) The difference between ${PARAMETER:+WORD} and ${PARAMETER

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Miles Bader
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For me, exim4 is better: > * less memory on run time > * mailname is implimented as expected by the policy. Postfix has a reputation for being faster and more secure than exim. Why is it worth worrying about, though? Are the difference between exim and

Re: MTA comparison (postfix, exim4, ...)

2007-11-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:44:51 +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Just to be sure... I am running postfix now just to find out the same > questions you have... > I see no practical reason to run postfix on desktop machine now except > if postfix is something you are very familiar with.

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:52:21PM +0100, Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > > If the author uses the pdf, it's the pdf. If the author uses the tex, > > Umpf, how do you proof/ensure that the source of a pdf is the pdf? > I hope you

Bug#452045: ITP: dialign-t-doc -- PDF, HTML and PS Documentation for dialign-t

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: non-free/dialign-t-doc Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Amarendran R. Subramanian, Volker Menrad, Dorothea Emig URL : http://dialign-t.gobics.de/ License : LGPL Progr

ITP: libcgi-formbuilder-source-yaml-perl -- Initialize CGI::FormBuilder application from YAML file

2007-11-19 Thread Ernesto Hernandez-Novich
Package: wnpp * Package name: libcgi-formbuilder-source-yaml-perl Version: 1.0008 Upstream Author: Mark Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL: http://search.cpan.org/dist/CGI-FormBuilder-Source-Yaml/ * License: GPL or Perl Artistic Description: This Perl module reads a YAML file containing CGI::F

Bug#452034: ITP: libhtml-template-pro-perl -- Perl/XS module to use HTML Templates from CGI scripts

2007-11-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libhtml-template-pro-perl Version : 0.66 Upstream Author : I. Yu. Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-Template-Pro/ * License : Same as

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11208 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: > Do the DFSG apply to design??? The DFSG apply to stuff thats put into our archive. And you know, our SC states "Debian will remain 100% free", it doesnt say Free Software. > Well, we are doomed to ship crippled variants of beautiful documents. Peo

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > > If the author uses the pdf, it's the pdf. If the author uses the tex, > > Umpf, how do you proof/ensure that the source of a pdf is the pdf? I > hope you don't trust the "PDF Producer" field and similar? Y

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Argg, yes, here we are again. What matters to me is that a user can use > the INFORMATION in the document, i.e. the actual source and use it in > case he makes a derived work. > > And it matters to me that people can get optimal typographic quality. >

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > If the author uses the pdf, it's the pdf. If the author uses the tex, Umpf, how do you proof/ensure that the source of a pdf is the pdf? I hope you don't trust the "PDF Producer" field and similar? So, we are settled, I could - just for the sake of discu

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > Of course, that free to use and distribute is not sufficient for Debian > main. They would also have to grant a license to create derivative works > and distribute those derivative works, including the derivative work of Argg, yes, here we are again. What

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > I think we need to make a difference here if upstream's original > > document is the pdf - or if the pdf was created from xml/tex/... source. > > It's not common to create documentations as pdf file in pdfed

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > > - the source is present, no freedom is taken: The document is present, > > > the source code. > > > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality. > > > > Thats different to "relies on not-avai

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: >> In the absence of an explicit copyright license, Debian has generally >> taken the conservative position that just because something is >> available for download doesn't grant an implicit license, and hence >

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: > In the absence of an explicit copyright license, Debian has generally > taken the conservative position that just because something is available > for download doesn't grant an implicit license, and hence doesn't mean > that you can redistribute it or make

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Norbert Preining <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: >> * Norbert Preining: >>> These fonts are not the full fonts, but sub-setted. Otherwise type >>> companies would NEVER allow any distribution of pdfs with their fonts. >>> But they do. >> But this doesn't me

Bug#452014: ITP: atl2-source -- Source for the Attansic L2 ethernet driver

2007-11-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: atl2-source Version : 1.0.40.2 Upstream Author : xiong huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.22/ * License

Bug#451975: ITP: cl-plplot -- A CFFI based interface to the PLplot scientific plotting library

2007-11-19 Thread Philipp Benner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philipp Benner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: cl-plplot Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Hazen Babcoc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-plplot/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Lisp D

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Norbert Preining: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: >> > These fonts are not the full fonts, but sub-setted. Otherwise type >> > companies would NEVER allow any distribution of pdfs with their fonts. >> > But they do. >> >> But this doesn't mean that you are allowed to extract those s

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:23:36AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (Unfortunately, you might have to parse groff's warning text in order > to ignore particular cases.) I'm not familiar with Groff at all... Does it allow later `.de' to overr

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > > These fonts are not the full fonts, but sub-setted. Otherwise type > > companies would NEVER allow any distribution of pdfs with their fonts. > > But they do. > > But this doesn't mean that you are allowed to extract those subsets, put Sorry, this is

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > I think we need to make a difference here if upstream's original > document is the pdf - or if the pdf was created from xml/tex/... source. > It's not common to create documentations as pdf file in pdfedit or Adobe > Acrobat, but it may happen, and then th

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Well, I still think that there is a difference between a PDF file and a > binary executable, and that in any case, a PDF file is not a "program" > in the same sense as the commands and applications we use, but since > this discussion already happened before, I will not try to change the > mind o

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Norbert Preining: > On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: >> The embedded fonts are still restricted, so it has to go into non-free > > These fonts are not the full fonts, but sub-setted. Otherwise type > companies would NEVER allow any distribution of pdfs with their fonts. > But they do.

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > The embedded fonts are still restricted, so it has to go into non-free These fonts are not the full fonts, but sub-setted. Otherwise type companies would NEVER allow any distribution of pdfs with their fonts. But they do. Best wishes Norbert

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Norbert Preining: > What if upstream ships a pdf AND the source, but the generation of the > pdf relies on not-available fonts. > > I would still ship this pdf into my Debian package out of the following > reasons: The embedded fonts are still restricted, so it has to go into non-free (perhaps

Bug#451946: ITP: aeskulap -- medical image viewer and DICOM network client

2007-11-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: aeskulap Version : 0.2.2b1 Upstream Author : Alexander Pipelka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.bms-austria.com/~pipelka/aeskulap/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming

Bug#451936: RFP: ttf-ubuntu-title -- The font used to create the Ubuntu logo

2007-11-19 Thread Kartik Mistry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: ttf-ubuntu-title Version: 0.2 Upstream Author: Andrew Fitzsimon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/x11/ttf-ubuntu-title License: LGPL Descrip

Bug#451930: ITP: ocaml-portaudio -- ocaml interface to portaudio library

2007-11-19 Thread Romain Beauxis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Romain Beauxis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ocaml-portaudio Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://savonet.sf.net/ * License : LGPL+link exception Programming Lang: oca

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Jörg, On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > - the source is present, no freedom is taken: The document is present, > > the source code. > > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality. > > Thats different to "relies on not-available fonts". > Relies == cant be build without

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 10:46:14AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > On 11208 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > - despite the absence of latex sources one is allowed to take a > >html, pdf or ps editor and modify the old documentation in the > >.orig.tar.gz under the terms of the LGP

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11208 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: > Other questions arising from this: > What if upstream ships a pdf AND the source, but the generation of the > pdf relies on not-available fonts. If you know it -> contrib. (And one should know, as one should try rebuilding it at least once). > I wo

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11208 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > - despite the absence of latex sources one is allowed to take a >html, pdf or ps editor and modify the old documentation in the >.orig.tar.gz under the terms of the LGPL; "Despite the absence of c source one is allowed to take a .so file and a

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mo, 19 Nov 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality. > > - shipping the higher quality document helps the user more than shipping > > a lower quality document > > Why would the XML-based document be lower quality? If dblatex is used > for genera

Re: What to do when the LaTeX sources are missing, but an XML equivalent was rewritten from scratch ?

2007-11-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 novembre 2007 à 08:08 +0100, Norbert Preining a écrit : > - the pdf can be regenerated albeit with minor quality. > - shipping the higher quality document helps the user more than shipping > a lower quality document Why would the XML-based document be lower quality? If dblatex is use