Bug#510184: ITP: gtk-qt-engine-kde4 -- theme engine using Qt 4 for GTK+ 2.x

2008-12-29 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: liborigin2 Version: 20081216 Upstream Author: Alex Kargovsky URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/liborigin License: GPL Description: library for reading OriginLab Origin 7.5 project files liborigin2 is a

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> How about either matching stuff against the build logs or recompiling > I didn't have the resources to do this, but it's be great if someone could. If you have the means of recompiling, say with pbuilder,

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

2008-12-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:10:24PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > But the way you wrote in 4 as "we will make any private discussions > publically available at the earliest opportunity." is problematic since > it is 100% disclosure pledge. I suggest something along "we will make > any private discussio

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread LI Daobing (李道兵)
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Adeodato Simó wrote: >> Attached is a list of affected packages, > > Piping through dd-list(1) gives: > > LI Daobing > liblunar forwarded to upstream, and he will fix it in next release. > openbabel (U) left to debichem team. -- Best Regards, LI Daobing

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

2008-12-29 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:03:20AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:02:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Using the word "software" as the basis for the divide might be too much: > I'm not convinced that leaving important parts of Debian undocumented > over doctrinal disput

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Kees Cook wrote: Hi, On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: How about either matching stuff against the build logs or recompiling I didn't have the resources to do this, but it's be great if someone could. I'll work on this now. -- Asheesh.

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:27:16AM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:42:46 -0800 Kees Cook wrote: > > In Debian, some tools already compile natively with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, > > and some have Build-Depends on "hardening-wrapper", which enables this > > compiler flag. As such,

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Kees Cook
Hi, On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > How about either matching stuff against the build logs or recompiling I didn't have the resources to do this, but it's be great if someone could. > with a compiler that actually fails when asked to compile a file that > match

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Kees Cook
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 01:51:45PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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 = tall

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

2008-12-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:45:56 +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Freedom of speech is a constitutional disposition, and I don't think it is > something that could be acheive. It really is a constitutional act. > > It is also why I am against the Code of Conduct. Freedom of speech is an > utopism tha

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Viehmann writes: > Andreas Tille wrote: >> Args - I've read this and intended to use in both cases mkstemp - but >> then just forgot this. I think just for reading files mktemp is fine. >> The rationale is that I do not really want to rewrite the reading >> routine which opens the file to

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> Never use mktemp(). > > Args - I've read this and intended to use in both cases mkstemp - but then > just forgot this. I think just for reading files mktemp is fine. The > rationale is that I do not really want to rewrite

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Never use mktemp(). Args - I've read this and intended to use in both cases mkstemp - but then just forgot this. I think just for reading files mktemp is fine. The rationale is that I do not really want to rewrite the reading routine which opens

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

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:16:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Mike Hommey: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer > > wrote: > >> * Theodore Tso: > >> > >> > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > >> > Social Contract, which I obje

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

2008-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Gerfried Fuchs: >> For instance, while I have no particular opinion on firmware, I object >> to packages in main which, when run on a web browser, execute >> proprietary Javascript blobs (either by shipping them in the package, >> or by linking them in some way). > > But it is. The web browser

Bug#510148: ITP: coinor-osi -- COIN-OR Open Solver Interface

2008-12-29 Thread Aramian Wasielak
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aramian Wasielak * Package name: coinor-osi Version : 0.99.1 Upstream Author : Matthew Saltzman , and others * URL : https://projects.coin-or.org/Osi * License : CPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : COIN-OR Op

[OT] American Slavery (was Re: "Debian women may leave due to 'sexist' post")

2008-12-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 12/29/08 03:55, Peter Tuhársky wrote: gregor herrmann wrote / napísal(a): Maybe you missed the "old enough" in Lisi's mail. In Austria for example equal rights between man and woman in a marriage exist only since 1975. Cf. http://www.demokratiezentrum.org/media/pdf/info_familienrecht.pdf

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> Oh, and if you really care, be sure that it's a regular file (not a >> symlink pointing to something) owned by yourself before using it as a >> hint to kill your processes. > > Thanks for your hints. I've prepared a pat

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

2008-12-29 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:20:28PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > FSF), Dynebolic, Musix GNU+Linux, BLAG, and Trisquel. So not only is > > there one such distribution that takes free software of cardinal > > importance, there are six

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: Oh, and if you really care, be sure that it's a regular file (not a symlink pointing to something) owned by yourself before using it as a hint to kill your processes. Thanks for your hints. I've prepared a patch at http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/deb

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

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Romain Beauxis writes: > Le Monday 29 December 2008 17:21:16 Theodore Tso, vous avez écrit : >> I do feel quite strongly, that aspirational goals, if they are going to >> be in Foundation Documents, must be clearly *labelled* as aspirational >> goals, and not as inflexible mandates that _MUST_ be

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2008-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Loïc Minier writes: > (I have no idea why it's not mentionned anymore.) Yes, the program is > still used; it's in charge of generating >/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (and > /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache); these files may then be > used by e.g. gio (in GLib) to

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

2008-12-29 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Florian Weimer [2008-12-29 15:01:19 CET]: > * Theodore Tso: > > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract which > > relaxed the f

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

2008-12-29 Thread Kel Modderman
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 03:44:26 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 15:38 +0100, Evgeni Golov a écrit : > > 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-enabl

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

2008-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Noah Slater [Mon, Dec 29 2008, 10:13:10AM]: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > > There are many things people did and do wrong. Enslaving anyone if bad. > > Irrespectedly of gender. However, the feminism of its current shape, in > > countries where no di

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

2008-12-29 Thread Daniel Moerner
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:55:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I wish we could have in the world of GNU/Linux one, just one, >> please--just one--distribution which really took free software as of >> cardinal importance. Debian ha

Re: Building only one package from control file

2008-12-29 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Anil Gulecha [Mon, Dec 29 2008, 10:49:31PM]: > Hi, > > If debian/control defines many binary packages, and I only want to > build one of them, is there a simpler method than modifying the > control file and removing the unneeded ones? Perhaps by passing a > particular argument to dpkg-

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

2008-12-29 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 28 décembre 2008 à 15:38 +0100, Evgeni Golov a écrit : > 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 tim

Bug#510136: ITP: libwirble-ruby -- extensions for the Ruby irb command line shell

2008-12-29 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gunnar Wolf * Package name: libwirble-ruby Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Paul Duncan * URL : http://pablotron.org/software/wirble * License : MIT/X Programming Lang: Ruby Description : extensions for the Rub

Re: [s...@powerlinux.fr: Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations]

2008-12-29 Thread Patrick Matthäi
> I think the problem is not really the social contract, what it currently > says is just fine, and we all agree with it. ACK. > We have free stuff, which is in main, and non-free stuff of diverse > variety, which is in non-free (plus the hybrid contrib). > > My own guess is that all those clamo

Building only one package from control file

2008-12-29 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi, If debian/control defines many binary packages, and I only want to build one of them, is there a simpler method than modifying the control file and removing the unneeded ones? Perhaps by passing a particular argument to dpkg-buildpackage? -- Anil http://www.gulecha.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

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

2008-12-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:10:51AM +, Noah Slater a écrit : > > [citation needed] > > [citation needed] > > [citation needed] > > [citation needed] > Hi all, while I can not tell for debian-women, I would like to stress out that for debian-devel, what is needed is not citations but the e

Bug#510133: ITP: mbrola-en1 -- British English male voice for Mbrola

2008-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2008-12-29 Severity: wishlist * Package name: mbrola-en1 Version : 19980910 Upstream Author : Faculte Polytechnique de Mons - mbrola team * URL : http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis * License : see the file readme.txt in t

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

2008-12-29 Thread Romain Beauxis
Le Monday 29 December 2008 17:21:16 Theodore Tso, vous avez écrit : > I do feel quite strongly, that aspirational goals, if they are going > to be in Foundation Documents, must be clearly *labelled* as > aspirational goals, and not as inflexible mandates that _MUST_ be > kept.  In politics, can hav

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

2008-12-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:38:25PM +0100, Romain Beauxis wrote: > > To me, the social contract is a very good compromise. It states first an > idealist acheivement, but moderates it by some pragmatism concerning the > users. "unproductive" discussions fall into the same category, when they do >

[s...@powerlinux.fr: Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations]

2008-12-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi, Sven asked me to forward this message to the list. Since it does not contain any of the vitriol for which he was expelled from the project, and since it does contain some valid points on the discussion in question, I decided to comply with his request. I'd like to say, though, that this does

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

2008-12-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:55:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I wish we could have in the world of GNU/Linux one, just one, > please--just one--distribution which really took free software as of > cardinal importance. Debian has promised to be that, while living up to > the promise only i

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

2008-12-29 Thread Romain Beauxis
(Resending a previous private answer to Theodore since I believe it is relevant to the discussion..) Le Monday 29 December 2008 15:11:01 Theodore Tso, vous avez écrit : > As I said in my recent blog entry[1], I believe that "100% free" is a > wonderful aspirational goal --- other things being equ

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

2008-12-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:02:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > Using the word "software" as the basis for the divide might be too much: > we've already done a lot of work restricting main to DFSG-free docs, and > I think it makes sense to keep that. Having main be a functioning bunch > of free st

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

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 09:11:01AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > As others have pointed out, there is such a distribution, gNewSense; in > fact, if you look at [2], you will find that there are five others, > Ututu (the first fully free GNU/Linux distribution recognized by the > FSF), Dynebolic, Mu

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

2008-12-29 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 09:55:36PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I would prefer this. But I am afraid of it, and so I would vote against > it. I am afraid that there are folks in the project who really don't > care if Debian is 100% free--even as a goal. I think that Ted Tso is > even o

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

2008-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Mike Hommey: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer > wrote: >> * Theodore Tso: >> >> > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian >> > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. >> > If there was a GR which chainged t

Bug#510122: ITP: icicles -- an emacs library that enhances minibuffer/input completion

2008-12-29 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond * Package name: icicles Version : 22.0+2008-12-27 Upstream Author : Drew Adams * URL : http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles * License : GPL Programming Lang: Lisp Description : an emacs libra

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

2008-12-29 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:01:19PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Theodore Tso: > > > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract

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

2008-12-29 Thread Florian Weimer
* Theodore Tso: > I'm not ashamed at all; I joined before the 1.1 revision to the Debian > Social Contract, which I objected to them, and I still object to now. > If there was a GR which chainged the Debian Social contract which > relaxed the first clause to only include __software__ running on th

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

2008-12-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:02:41PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > 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" low

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

2008-12-29 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Thomas Bushnell BSG [Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:55:36 -0800]: > I wish we could have in the world of GNU/Linux one, just one, > please--just one--distribution which really took free software as of > cardinal importance. I don't like the wording of your sentence, but I'll point out that gNewSense alrea

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 09:53:40 +0100 Adeodato Simó wrote: > Evgeni Golov >desmume (U) Forwarded upstream, they'll fix that asap. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2008-12-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Monday 29 December 2008 21:26, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > It is anecdotal gender profiling that causes women and men to choose > > certain paths through life in the first place, and is hence one of the > > root causes of the very problem we're trying to solve. > > Interesting discussion. But as N

Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

2008-12-29 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: > 1. The update-desktop-database program used to be documented in the >desktop entry spec in version 0.9.5 and was removed in 0.9.6 (the >current version is 1.0). Should I draw some conclusion from that? Is >this program and cache likely to go

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

2008-12-29 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:10:51AM +, Noah Slater wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:39:50AM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > > For me, the answer is quite simple. The computing is almost technical > > industry, and therefore it is naturally more suitable for men, who are > > naturally strog in

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

2008-12-29 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:55:54AM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > There are many things people did and do wrong. Enslaving anyone if bad. > Irrespectedly of gender. However, the feminism of its current shape, in > countries where no discrimination is pushed on women, is making the same > mistake, j

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

2008-12-29 Thread Noah Slater
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 10:39:50AM +0100, Peter Tuhársky wrote: > For me, the answer is quite simple. The computing is almost technical > industry, and therefore it is naturally more suitable for men, who are > naturally strog in technical thinking and achieving the task milestones. > Just like the

Procese correos empezando hoy mismo y gane dinero

2008-12-29 Thread Gane Dinero procesando emails
Estimad@ amig@: Desde ahora tiene la posibilidad de poder ganar dinero trabajando desde su Casa y de manera fácil. Si usted nos elige deberá procesar correos electrónicos. Para procesar correos tendrá que seguir unos sencillos pasos que le mostraremos. Si usted puede procesar 20 correos electróni

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

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Tuhársky
gregor herrmann wrote / napísal(a): Maybe you missed the "old enough" in Lisi's mail. In Austria for example equal rights between man and woman in a marriage exist only since 1975. Cf. http://www.demokratiezentrum.org/media/pdf/info_familienrecht.pdf Well, I've heard, that formally, a slavery

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

2008-12-29 Thread Peter Tuhársky
Amaya wrote / napísal(a): By creating Debian Women, we are sending out the message that it is definitely ok to be a female and and a geek, and we aim to create visibility for those female users, developers, contributors... so that they can serve as 'role models', or inspiration for other males

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > Therefore I think it's neither necessary nor appropriate for libpam-modules > to avoid a pre-dependency on debconf. > > Is it ok to make libpam-modules Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 > for lenny? I think so. We already have many predepende

Re: RFC: adding pre-depends to libpam-modules for lenny

2008-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek (Not wearing any particular hat here) [...] | Is it ok to make libpam-modules Pre-Depends: debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0 | for lenny? Yes, I think this sounds reasonable (and your analysis looks good to me). [...] | So is it ok to also make libpam-modules Pre-Depends: ${sh

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

2008-12-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, given the last proposal I made [0] went nowhere, unless people > want to come up with their own proposals, or want to second the above as > a draft proposal to be improved and voted on, I suspect nothing much will > change, and we'll have this dis