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2009-02-25 Thread MissJoy Emma
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Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

2009-02-25 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Roger Leigh wrote: > HAL is just querying the group database directly. Any process can of > course do this. But it's asking a different question, namely: > what groups is this user a member of in the group database. This is of course broken. It breaks granting console user

Bug#517165: ITP: phyml -- Phylogenetic estimation using Maximum Likelihood

2009-02-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy Hello everybody, I intend to package Phyml, as it is necessary for upgrading SeaView to version 4.0. As usual, the source of the PDF manual was omitted from the Upstream tarball. I am working on this issue. Have a nice day, -- Charles So

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:52:30PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > Personally, I would prefer the glibc headers to just set the LFS > macros to the 64 bit versions by default, so that rather than > taking extra steps to enable LFS, LFS would be the default and you > would then need to take extra steps

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 09:28 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >xcdroast is looking for cdrecord, which does no longer exist in Debian > >Sid (apparently). And wodim does no longer provide a symlink as cdrecord > >or something (apparently). > > >So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bu

Re: handling group membership in and outside d-i

2009-02-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:11:36PM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Finally can anyone with a deeper insight of the issues > explain whether or not the frustrating "existing logins > don't inherit new groups" behaviour is fixable, or is that > deeply rooted in UNIX tradition? The limitation is due to

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:16:53PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe we need a mass bug filing for programs not using 64bit file > offsets. I think that would be appropriate. At this point, I can't see a valid reason for any package to not have LFS enabled. > Anyone up for hacking libc

Bug#517141: ITP: pysieved -- Python-based Managesieve server

2009-02-25 Thread Christoph Haas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Haas * Package name: pysieved Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Neale Pickett * URL : http://woozle.org/~neale/src/pysieved/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python-based Managesieve

Re: Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 16:28 -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card > that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the > subject says I want to know what video cards will still have > acceleration when

Accelerated video cards and non-free firmware

2009-02-25 Thread Daniel Dickinson
Hi, I'm looking at getting a video card, and I want to know what video card that has 3D acceleration to get. Normally I'd ask on -users but as the subject says I want to know what video cards will still have acceleration when the non-free firmware is removed from the kernel, which is supposed to

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread AtomCell
hi all, if you need a visa to the USA, just ask the NY team to send you an invitation (if possible from an association). the invitation should be addressed to your company (so ask your company to support you). ask also the NY team to send a copy of this invitation to your local US embassy. kind reg

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 25 2009, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> (I generally tend to code configuration files in a scripting >> language if the code is written in a scripting language). > > Uh ? /etc/kernel-pkg.conf, for example, is in Perl. You may define functions, vari

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread Victor H De la Luz
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Patrick Ouellette wrote: > > With respect to visa issues, early application is always a good ideal. > I work for a US government agency that hosts international guests for > training three to four times a year.  We usually don't know who is going > to show up until

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread Patrick Ouellette
With respect to visa issues, early application is always a good ideal. I work for a US government agency that hosts international guests for training three to four times a year. We usually don't know who is going to show up until we actually see the people arrive on the first day of training. Th

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
(Please CC me on responses - I'm not subscribed to debian-devel currently.) On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:55:22PM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 25 février 2009, vers 12:45, > martin f krafft disait : > > > In eleven years of DebConf history, this will be

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Bernat (25/02/2009): > Out of curiosity, how those issues will be handled? Obvi: Covert channels. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 25 2009, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Harald Braumann writes: > >> I don't really know Config::Model. But the main problem I have with the >> current system is, that I only see diffs between the currently >> installed version and the new package version. > > With ucf, you see a diff bet

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Do we have an idea of how many configuration files can be > described in terms of such a model? I do not know how many. I'd say most of the files that do not use variables. For instance exim config is out. I do not know for Apache config files. So far, I've create

Re: DebConf10 to take place in New York City, USA

2009-02-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 25 février 2009, vers 12:45, martin f krafft disait : > In eleven years of DebConf history, this will be the first time > that the Debian developer conference takes place in the United > States of America, which had been avoided in previous years due to

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Stefano Zacchiroli writes: > Actually, this is something I've been pondering about for a > while. Having /etc under some VCS (as many of us, I presume, already > have by the means of etckeeper and similar tools), diff file merging > can be seriously improved. I tend to disagree. >From a user poi

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 25 2009, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Manoj Srivastava writes: > >> On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the tool to

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, Feb 25 2009, Dominique Dumont wrote: > So I was thinking that this is a typical case where the upgrade could > be smoothly handled by Config::Model. > Of course, there's no miracle. For the merge to work automatically and > the result to be valid, the semantic of the configuration file

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 05:15:52PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > No what I really would like to see is the diff between the last version > I've merged and the new package version. So changes can easily be seen > (changes in defaults, new/removed parameters or just white-space > changes?) and merg

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Harald Braumann writes: > I don't really know Config::Model. But the main problem I have with the > current system is, that I only see diffs between the currently > installed version and the new package version. With ucf, you see a diff between current file (i.e. installed version with your mod

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Harald Braumann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:28:52 +0100 Dominique Dumont wrote: > Of course, there's no miracle. For the merge to work automatically and > the result to be valid, the semantic of the configuration file must be > known by Config::Model. This is done by describing the structure and > constraints of the

Re: Proposed release goal: fix debian/rules build-arch

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Raphael Hertzog writes: > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Kari Pahula wrote: >> Currently, Debian Policy doesn't match with the current practice in >> section 7.7. >> >> > The Build-Depends-Indep and Build-Conflicts-Indep fields must be >> > satisfied when any of the following targets is invoked: build, >>

Re: Security Issue of .desktop files

2009-02-25 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:36:38 + Matthew Johnson wrote: > On Tue Feb 24 23:44, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On mar, 2009-02-24 at 17:33 -0500, Michael S. Gilbert wrote: > > > here is > > > a .desktop file that looks like it is iceweasel, but really it > > > downloads an essentially random file,

Re: Is the FHS dead ?

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Giacomo Catenazzi writes: > Standards should be most frozen as possible. I don't find a lot of > think that need to be added. What about cross compile and multiarch paths? The old lib32/lib64 dirs currently mentioned in the FHS are just not covering enough cases and are misleading (like amd64 u

Re: Forthcoming changes in kernel-package

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Manoj Srivastava writes: > On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:14:49AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is a heads up for a major change in kernel-package, the >>> tool to create user packaged kernel images and headers; which will

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Goswin von Brederlow, le Wed 25 Feb 2009 16:16:53 +0100, a écrit : > Anyone up for hacking libc to always fail on the 32bit wrappers for > seek, stat, ...? Or looking for binaries with a U lseek ? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/09/2009 08:04 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/09/2009 12:28 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Ben Hutchings >>> wrote: If jed can deal with files that large, sure. But if it expects to be able to load the entire file into memory

Bug#517079: ITP: webboard -- graphical frontend for sending text to pastebin servers

2009-02-25 Thread Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals" * Package name: webboard Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Olivier Le Thanh Duong * URL : https://launchpad.net/webboard * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Python Description :

apt-get update seems to fail getting SourceIndex Re: Bug#517054: Cannot update sid image via pbuilder update/apt-get fails.

2009-02-25 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, Sending to a wider audience in case someone knows how to fix it. At Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:45:00 +0100, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:20:22PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does it happen outside of chroot too? > No. But I have current Packages/Sources

Mutual business relationship.

2009-02-25 Thread Koffi Gilbert
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: gilbertkoffi...@yahoo.com - Attn: I got your information in a professional database when I was searching through

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Do Config::Model support migration from one model to another? Yes. In fact model version n can include specific attribute to deal with migration from n-1 to n. > Example: CUPS 2.x has boolean option foo, which is changed in CUPS 3.x > to numeric option foobar. In su

Re: Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:28:52AM +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote: >Of course, there's no miracle. For the merge to work automatically and >the result to be valid, the semantic of the configuration file must be >known by Config::Model. This is done b

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 21:14 +0100, Andreas Tscharner a écrit : > So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bug entry): xcdroats > or wodim? In the end, the one you have to blame is Joerg Schilling, for forcing us to change the name of the binary. -- .''`. Debian 5.0 "Lenny"

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 01:00:48 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bug entry): xcdroats > > >or wodim? > It's a bug in the xcdroast package. There is a 'cdrecord' dummy package in > unstable which provides a cdrecord compatibility symlink to wodim,

Re: Security Issue of .desktop files

2009-02-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 22:53 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez a écrit : > Not exactly. The “safe” .desktop file was in the link I pasted on > another mail in the thread: > > /* check if the file tries to look like a regular document (i.e. > * a display name of 'file.png'), maybe a virus or other ma

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:28:28AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >xcdroast is looking for cdrecord, which does no longer exist in Debian > >Sid (apparently). And wodim does no longer provide a symlink as cdrecord > >or something (apparently). > >So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blam

Proposal to improve package configuration upgrades

2009-02-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
[ this discussion was started on debian-perl. I'm restarting it on debian-devel following Gregor Hermann suggestion ] Hello The other day, I was upgrading cups and dpkg did ask me the usual way if I wanted to keep my cups config file or take the upstream version. Like always, I asked for a diff

bonvacance.nl now links to you

2009-02-25 Thread John Palmen
Dear Debian, I have visited your site and I think that the content of bonvacance.nl could be of interest to our web site visitors. I have already placed a link to your site along with a description at "http://www.bonvacance.nl/partnerbase/accommodaties.htm";. If you want the description of yo

Re: xcdroast does no longer work with wodim: Who to blame?

2009-02-25 Thread Joerg Schilling
>xcdroast is looking for cdrecord, which does no longer exist in Debian >Sid (apparently). And wodim does no longer provide a symlink as cdrecord >or something (apparently). >So: xcdroast does no longer work. Who is to blame (Bug entry): xcdroats >or wodim? You need to blame the people who are

Bug#517027: ITP: liblwp-protocol-socks-perl -- adds support for the socks protocol and proxy facility to perl LWP

2009-02-25 Thread Pierre Neyron
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Pierre Neyron * Package name: liblwp-protocol-socks-perl Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Sheridan C. Rawlins * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~scr/LWP-Protocol-socks-1.1/ * License : Same as Perl Programming Lang: Perl