Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 15:02 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > For example, having "non-free" in the archive and the BTS (and potentially > buildds and elsewhere) is implied by point (3) (ie, supporting Debian > users who choose to use non-free software to the best of our ability), > and potentially usi

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 08:45:16PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > I'm not ashamed at all; I joine

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 20:45 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > > > > I'm not ashamed at all; I

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 02:31:16PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:04:24PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Bummer, please stop that bullshit. I don't know your origin, but Lisi > > Reisz doesn't sound like an Arabic, nor Indian, nor African name, so > > probably your ma

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

Hi Russ. Russ Allbery (28/12/2008): > I started looking today in more depth at the MIME type registration > process for applications providing *.desktop files, dh_desktop, and > what Lintian is currently doing (as part of addressing #488832). With (or without, not sure) my submitter hat (Corsac

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of the > options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the simplest, > safest and most easily justified seems to be "stop discus

Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

Hello all, I started looking today in more depth at the MIME type registration process for applications providing *.desktop files, dh_desktop, and what Lintian is currently doing (as part of addressing #488832). Current situation: Lintian warns of packages that contain desktop files in the debian

Re: Summary of submitted ITP

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni > wrote: > >> I just submitted ITP mails for all the packages I have on my disk, ready to >> be packaged in Debian. > ... >> Note that I wrote a small program (attached to this mail)

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I wonder how many DDs were ashamed to vote the titled "Reaffirm the > social contract" lower than the choices that chose to release. > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian Social Contract, which

Summary of submitted ITP

Hello, I just submitted ITP mails for all the packages I have on my disk, ready to be packaged in Debian. Here is a summary: - Bug#510053: ITP: libdata-phrasebook-perl -- A collection of modules for accessing phrasebooks from various data sources - Bug#510054: ITP: libdata-phrasebook-loader-

Re: Summary of submitted ITP

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: > I just submitted ITP mails for all the packages I have on my disk, ready to > be packaged in Debian. ... > Note that I wrote a small program (attached to this mail) to extract > information from existing debian/ files and gener

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 01:07:33AM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:48:24AM +, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I thought FD was also a vote for "release Lenny" given it didn't change > > the status quo and before the GR the release team were quite happy to > > release... > If you

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 02:45:29AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of > the options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the > simplest, safest and most

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:04:24PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > I didn't get the original email of Lisi because it was not sent to d-d. > > > 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz : > > > this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old enough to have > > > been officially and by law down-moted to second cl

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:02:46PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > pcregrep -M 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' > > pcregrep -M 'snprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,[^,]*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' > > I would note that

Bug#510035: ITP: libmaa -- The Maa programming library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Luberda Hi, I'm intending to pacakge libmaa library, which used to be part of dictd sources, but now is an independent librabry, needed to build the newest version of dictd. * Package name: libmaa (binary pkgs: libmaa1, libmaa-dev) Version

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

2008/12/28 Amaya : > Всеволод Величко wrote: >> If you're sending something to d-d, be ready that d-d have other >> rules, than d-w. > > As in we will not tolerate your girly crap here? > I dare you to threaten me or any other female again! No, just this list is dedicated to Debian development, no

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:04:24 +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > > 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz : > > > this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old enough to have ^^ > > > been officially and by law down-moted to second class citizenship

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:04:24PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > Bummer, please stop that bullshit. I don't know your origin, but Lisi > Reisz doesn't sound like an Arabic, nor Indian, nor African name, so > probably your marriage was not arranged. > If it was indeed, sorry for the "bullshit" a

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

I didn't get the original email of Lisi because it was not sent to d-d. > 2008/12/28 Lisi Reisz : > > this topic is idiotic. For those of us who are old enough to have > > been officially and by law down-moted to second class citizenship when > > we married; by law lumped in with children, and no

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > samba Another false positive, AFAICS: $ pcregrep -rM 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' source source/libads/kerberos.c: fname = talloc_asprintf(dname, "%s/krb5.conf.%s", dname, domain); $ Perhaps adding a \

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

Всеволод Величко wrote: > That message has been carbon-copied to debian-devel list. I'm not > reading debian-women list. You think, this discussion should take > place in d-d? I'm not sure. That was a honest mistake. I did not realize I was replying to a cross-post. > If you're sending something

Bug#510025: ITP: libpango-perl -- Perl module to layout and render international text

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Perl Group * Package name: libpango-perl Version : 1.210 Upstream Author : scott at asofyet dot org, kaffeetisch at gmx dot de, pcg at goof dot com * URL : http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL Prog

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Hi Dne Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:53:40 +0100 Adeodato Simó napsal(a): > Michal Čihař >gammu Affected code is only in some example, however I will fix it upstream... -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > And, a possible solution from Anders Kaseorg... > This example sprintf() call could be fixed as follows: > -sprintf(buf, "%s plus %d", buf, k); > +sprintf(buf + strlen(buf), " plus %d", k); > Similarly, an invalid snprintf() call co

Bug#510021: ITP: rjava -- GNU R low-level interface to Java

Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: rjava Version : 0.6-0 Upstream Author : Simon Urbanek * URL or Web page : http://www.rforge.net/rJava * License : GPL-2 Description : GNU R low-level interface to Java rJava is a base package

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:08:04PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Further discussion came sixth, beaten by between 95 votes (option 2), > and 11 votes (option 6), with Reaffirm the social contract last, defeated > by further discussion by 109 votes. Oh, a further thought came to mind. One way to si

Re: Bug#510005: ITP: touchfreeze -- a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-click function

On Monday 29 December 2008 00:38:09 Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:04:58 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote: > > > Touchfreeze docks in your system tray and disables your touchpad > > while typing. It re-enables your touchpad when typing stops, using a > > configurable delay time. > > How

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Adeodato Simó (28/12/2008): > > Attached is a list of affected packages, > Cyril Brulebois >blender Bleh… Already pointed out upstream some time ago, but since they don't care about security at all… I guess I'll have to maintain another sec patch for years… >desmume (U) Evgeni might ta

Re: Bug#510005: ITP: touchfreeze -- a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-click function

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:04:58 +1000 Kel Modderman wrote: > Touchfreeze docks in your system tray and disables your touchpad > while typing. It re-enables your touchpad when typing stops, using a > configurable delay time. How does this compare to syndaemon from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics? Re

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:57:37 +0100 Toni Mueller wrote: > On Sun, 28.12.2008 at 21:08:04 +1000, Anthony Towns > wrote: > > If you consider the same results, without the supermajority > > requirements for options 2, 3, 4 and 6, you get: > > > > Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with pr

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Kees Cook wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to seek advice before I perform a mass-bug filing for this > unstable (though semi-common) use of "sprintf" and "snprintf": > > sprintf(buf, "%s foo %d %d", buf, var1, var2); > > This is used in many upstreams to perform a format-string-handling > version of

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Kees Cook wrote: > Attached is a list of affected packages, generated via: > > pcregrep -M 'sprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' > pcregrep -M 'snprintf\s*\(\s*([^,]*)\s*,[^,]*,\s*"%s[^"]*"\s*,\s*\1\s*,' > > The logs for individual packages can be seen here[4]. I've tried to

Bug#510005: ITP: touchfreeze -- a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-click function

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kel Modderman * Package name: touchfreeze Upstream Author : Stefan Kombrink * URL : http://qsynaptics.sourceforge.net/dl.html * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : a facility for disabling touchpad tap-to-

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

Hi, On Sun, 28.12.2008 at 21:08:04 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you consider the same results, without the supermajority requirements > for options 2, 3, 4 and 6, you get: > > Winner: Option 2: Allow Lenny to release with proprietary firmware considering all the problems around this p

Re: Adoption of Nix?

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:57:09AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > problems in a recent paper [1] (last paragraph of section > upgrading of cluster of machines all together) [2]. What they have in Dangling references: [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/research/publications/hotswup-package-upgrade.p

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:11:35PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > The decision of whether a bug is release-critical or not is for the > release managers to make, using the various properties of the bug > (including but *not* limited to its severity) as input to that > decision. They can, in fact, make

Re: Adoption of Nix?

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 03:08:20PM +0600, Artyom Shalkhakov wrote: > Cite from the homepage: > > Nix is a purely functional package manager. It allows multiple Hi all, I've studied a bit NixOS and written something about its problems in a recent paper [1] (last paragraph of section 3). Interesting

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:04:43AM +, devo...@vote.debian.org wrote: > In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that > option x received over option y. > Option > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > === === === ===

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

* Anthony Towns (a...@azure.humbug.org.au) [081228 11:51]: > [ difference between options 2 and 5] > It's possible that has no practical difference, in which case all the > furour over the running of the vote has no practical effect. Actually, if one reads the consitution the way I do (and where n

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:42:46AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > asterisk The relevant code is only: channels/misdn_config.c: sprintf(tempbuf, "%s%s, ", tempbuf, iter->msn); chan_misdn is not built on the the Debian package (though IIRC it is built in some

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Adeodato Simó wrote: Hi, > Julien BLACHE >unpaper Patch sent. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post"

Hello. 2008/12/28 Russell Coker : > On Sunday 28 December 2008 12:30, "Всеволод Величко" > wrote: > Did Lisi's message go to the debian-devel list? If so I didn't receive it. > > Maybe she sent a message to d-w and CC'd you as a courtesy. Emm, sorry, you probably misunderstood me. Initial messa

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:42:46 -0800 Kees Cook wrote: > I'd like to seek advice before I perform a mass-bug filing for this > unstable (though semi-common) use of "sprintf" and "snprintf": > > sprintf(buf, "%s foo %d %d", buf, var1, var2); > > This is used in many upstreams to perform a forma

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:53:40 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > > Attached is a list of affected packages, > > Piping through dd-list(1) gives: > > [..] > > Debian-Med Packaging Team >ctn >mafft > > Andreas Tille >ctn (U) > > David Paleino >mafft (U) > > Charles Plessy >maf

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Dom, 2008-12-28 às 00:42 -0800, Kees Cook escreveu: > Hi, > > I'd like to seek advice before I perform a mass-bug filing for this > unstable (though semi-common) use of "sprintf" and "snprintf": > > sprintf(buf, "%s foo %d %d", buf, var1, var2); > > This is used in many upstreams to perform

Re: Bug#503907: diffstat

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 03:43:35PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:23:03AM -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > > I have a feeling that the libwebkit currently in sid and lenny is pretty > > broken, from the looks of this bug. > > > > Unfortunately, we don't seem to be able to

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 09:53 +0100, Adeodato Simó a écrit : >gnome-games They are from the bundled copy of gnuchess, which is not built. -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:53:40AM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Mike Hommey >xulrunner ./xulrunner-1.8.1.16+nobinonly/toolkit/mozapps/installer/unix/wizard/nsXIEngine.cpp: sprintf(libpath, "%s/%s", libpath, XPISTUB); ./xulrunner-1.8.1.16+nobinonly/xpinstall/wizard/unix/src2/nsXIEngine.cpp: s

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

> Attached is a list of affected packages, Piping through dd-list(1) gives: Daniel Leidert (dale) gabedit (U) openbabel (U) Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) cdw sidplay sidplay-libs Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) aqualung audacious-plugins (U) Masayuki Hatta (mhatta) abiword ebvi

mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

Hi, I'd like to seek advice before I perform a mass-bug filing for this unstable (though semi-common) use of "sprintf" and "snprintf": sprintf(buf, "%s foo %d %d", buf, var1, var2); This is used in many upstreams to perform a format-string-handling version of strcat. This was originally not