Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 12, Raphael Geissert wrote: > >> I don't have a list at hand (I do have a sort of list in another machine >> which is unreachable atm); but the first one that comes to my mind is the >> use of 'type', it's output is unreliable and in some shell interpreters >> it is

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 12, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I don't have a list at hand (I do have a sort of list in another machine > which is unreachable atm); but the first one that comes to my mind is the > use of 'type', it's output is unreliable and in some shell interpreters it > is not implemented. Another one

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-04-12, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Artur R. Czechowski wrote: >> Programming Lang: PHP >> Description : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client > A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an completely > braindead idea. Not only that php is utter crap

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations (Was: Extended descriptions size)

2009-04-12 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:   SELECT md5(description || E'\n' || long_description || E'\n' ) AS md5          FROM packages WHERE ... Ok, I see why you're having trouble now; you're splitting up the description in your DB and thus need to stick it back together. That's

Re: Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > Programming Lang: PHP > Description : wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client A php wrapper around the svn command-line client sounds like an completely braindead idea. Not only that php is utter

Bug#523840: ITP: libdata-alias-perl -- Comprehensive set of aliasing operations

2009-04-12 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-alias-perl Version : 1.07 Upstream Author : Idea by Tony Bowden and Paul Johnson, code by Michael G Schwern , wardrobe by Calvin Klein. * URL :

Bug#523839: ITP: libany-moose-perl -- use Moose or Mouse modules

2009-04-12 Thread Ryan Niebur
Package: wnpp Owner: Ryan Niebur Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libany-moose-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Shawn M Moore , Florian Ragwitz , Stevan Little , Tokuhiro Matsuno * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 12, "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: > >> Policy specifically states that use of "local" is permitted [0]: > So exactly what do you want to disallow which is supported by dash but > not by policy, and for which purpose? > I don't have a list at hand (I do have a sort of

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 12, "Roberto C. Sánchez" wrote: > Policy specifically states that use of "local" is permitted [0]: So exactly what do you want to disallow which is supported by dash but not by policy, and for which purpose? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 09:35:37PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > * Bashisms-free archive > This is useless. You are basically proposing to remove every usage of > "local" and a few other directives for no good reason but at a huge cost. > Policy specifically states that use of "local" is perm

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 12, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> * Bashisms-free archive > This is useless. You are basically proposing to remove every usage of > "local" and a few other directives for no good reason but at a huge > cost. No, he's not -- look at the current Policy.

Re: dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 12, Raphael Geissert wrote: > * Dash as default /bin/sh This is good. > * Bashisms-free archive This is useless. You are basically proposing to remove every usage of "local" and a few other directives for no good reason but at a huge cost. > needed to support dash as /bin/sh. The pourpos

dash as default /bin/sh and bashisms-free archive RGs

2009-04-12 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hello everyone, I would like to propose the following Release Goals for squeeze: * Dash as default /bin/sh A lot of work was done on this RG already for lenny but, sadly, it didn't make it. Further improvements to checkbashisms as well as support for checking for bashisms in all /bin/sh and deb

Bug#523821: ITP: stardict-woaifayu-english-french -- This English-French dictionary is one of the most complete for the stardict

2009-04-12 Thread Patrice Karatchentzeff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrice Karatchentzeff * Package name: stardict-woaifayu-english-french Version : 2.4.2 Upstream Author : Luc * URL : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/stardict/stardict-woaifayu-ef-2.4.2.tar .bz2?download * License

Re: [Soc-coordination] Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

2009-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 07:28:14PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:18:32 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > > === And the details: === > > > > > > * Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings * > > --

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

2009-04-12 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:18:32 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > === And the details: === > > > * Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings * > --- > Student: Jonathan Yu, Ment

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:11:26 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: >515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. While were at it, I find it unacceptable to set a bug wontfix without explanation. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !!

New version of kernel-package now in unstable

2009-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, This brings to an end an enhancement for kernel-package that have been in development for over an year. These changes make kernel-package more nimble (you can just update the sources, hack on a file, and run make-kpkg and it should just work to incorporate your changes, no need for

Bug#523797: ITP: svnmanager -- webbased tool to administer a Unix Apache WebDAV Subversion repository server.

2009-04-12 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Artur R. Czechowski" * Package name: svnmanager Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : M. Verkerk * URL : http://svnmanager.sourceforge.net/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : webbased tool to adminis

Bug#523794: ITP: php-version-control-svn -- wrapper interface for the Subversion command-line client

2009-04-12 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Artur R. Czechowski" * Package name: php-version-control-svn Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Clay Loveless http://pear.php.net/account-mail.php?handle=clay * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/VersionControl_SVN * License

Re: Needs help testing apt-xapian-index

2009-04-12 Thread David Paleino
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:13:22 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, Ciao Enrico, > I've prepared a fix for a bug that I cannot reproduce, so I'd like > others to test it before I upload: > > Preconditions: > 1. On sid or experimental Running sid/experimental on i386 here. > 2. apt-get install a

Re: UDD gatherer for DDTP translations (Was: Extended descriptions size)

2009-04-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Andreas Tille wrote: > Well, I did not said that it is actually hard and in UDD you can get this > easily by > >   SELECT md5(description || E'\n' || long_description || E'\n' ) AS md5 >          FROM packages WHERE ... Ok, I see why you're having trouble now; you'

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 15:01 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > 515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. > > But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, no, it doesn't. > having

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Michael Meskes wrote: > But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, > having things "just work" and being able to run a system without hal do not > contradict each other. Expect grumpy people every time that you add something new that they hav

Needs help testing apt-xapian-index

2009-04-12 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, I've prepared a fix for a bug that I cannot reproduce, so I'd like others to test it before I upload: Preconditions: 1. On sid or experimental 2. apt-get install apt-xapian-index OR run update-apt-xapian-index as root 3. See if you get the problem at #521346 To test: 1. git clone

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 01:11:26PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > 515214 isn't most users. most users just want things to work. But then 515214 appears to be at least a significant amount of users. Anyway, having things "just work" and being able to run a system without hal do not contradict each

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 14:04 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > As (co-)maintainer of pm-utils and hal, I'd prefer if we could work towards > > standardizing on one power management stack in Debian (and not install 3 by > > default [1]),

Re: RFA: acpi-support -- glue layer for translating laptop buttons, plus legacy suspend support

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:55:39PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > As (co-)maintainer of pm-utils and hal, I'd prefer if we could work towards > standardizing on one power management stack in Debian (and not install 3 by > default [1]), i.e. I'd support in phasing out acpi-support and would gladly >

Bug#523755: ITP: libtest-email-perl -- Test Email Contents

2009-04-12 Thread Yves AGOSTINI
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: AGOSTINI Yves * Package name: libtest-email-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : James Tolley, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-Email/ * License : Perl Programming Lang: Perl Description : Test Email Co

Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

2009-04-12 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-04-11, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> === And the details: === > [...] > These descriptions are very short. Assuming these are the abstracts, > that's not the students' fault. The abstracts were shortened this year > to 500 characters. I struggled to shorten mine to

Bug#523736: ITP: god -- Monitors various attributes of running processes and can start/restart/stop them under certain situations

2009-04-12 Thread Sebastien Delafond
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Delafond * Package name: god Version : 0.7.12 Upstream Author : Tom Preston-Werner * URL : http://god.rubyforge.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Monitors various attributes of r

Re: [Soc-coordination] Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist

2009-04-12 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:24:47AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> On 10/04/09 at 09:18 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >>> * Debian Autobuilding Infrastructure Rewrite * >>> -- >>> Student: Philipp Kern, Mentor: Luk Claes >>

Re: KDE/Qt Package Manager (Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist)

2009-04-12 Thread Obey Arthur Liu
Fathi Boudra a écrit : >>> I have no issue with Adept, and I would love to see a good Qt/KDE >>> package manager, but if we're to get KPackageKit, I'd like to be sure >>> that we won't sponsor yet another APT front-end that won't be used. > > Still, it remains the aptitude-qt solution. > But it se

Re: KDE/Qt Package Manager (Re: Google Summer of Code 2009: Debian's Shortlist)

2009-04-12 Thread Fathi Boudra
> > I have no issue with Adept, and I would love to see a good Qt/KDE > > package manager, but if we're to get KPackageKit, I'd like to be sure > > that we won't sponsor yet another APT front-end that won't be used. Still, it remains the aptitude-qt solution. But it seems aptitude code is tighten