Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Frans Pop wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> The embedded crowd would want to find a way to get rid of bash, though, >> and trying to make bash a non-essential package seems like a worthwile >> effort because of that. It can even be reasonably automated, since you >> can rgrep /bin/bas

Bug#537975: ITP: libtext-password-pronounceable-perl -- Perl module to generate pronounceable passwords

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-password-pronounceable-perl Version : 0.28 Upstream Author : Chia-liang Kao * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Password-Pronounceable/ * Licen

MTA experts: address rewriting depending on next hop

2009-07-21 Thread Siggy Brentrup
Sorry list, if you see it again; yesterday I posted this to d-u and apart from a quick but useless reply got no reaction. I can't tell whether my English is to bad, or he was just trolling. - Forwarded message from Siggy Brentrup - Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:03:01 +0200 From: Siggy Bren

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Giacomo A. Catenazzi: > but policy recommend not to use bash features on scripts (10.3), > and the availability of a POSIX-shell (with few extension) is > already provided by policy (still 10.3), thus no need to add > package dependencies. "When in doubt, use /bin/bash" isn't really a recommend

Bug#537974: ITP: libtext-context-perl -- Perl module to highlight search result context snippets

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-context-perl Version : 3.6 Upstream Author : Tony Bowden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Context/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming

Bug#537973: ITP: libtext-context-eitherside-perl -- Perl module to get context around a keyword

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtext-context-eitherside-perl Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Tony Bowden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Context-EitherSide/ * License :

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 04:52:52PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > As I understand it, the performance drawbacks of a shared library are: > > 1) The PIC code and its use of a GOT. Given that we're talking about a > >PIC static library, this is not relevant. > The argument was that a shared

Bug#537970: ITP: libalgorithm-merge-perl -- Perl module for three-way merge of textual data

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libalgorithm-merge-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : James G. Smith * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Algorithm-Merge/ * License : Artistic |

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Am Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:13:55 + (UTC) schrieb Philipp Kern : > On 2009-07-21, Christian Hammers wrote: > > First, thanks for the long answer, Wouter! > > > > To wrap it up: > > * static libraries are a PITA in case of security problems > > * static libraries are a PITA for other projects as t

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 01:22:47PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:14:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Except that every package in Debian that explicitly uses bash has no > > declared dependency on bash because it's essential. I think attempting to > > go through and add

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-07-21, Christian Hammers wrote: > First, thanks for the long answer, Wouter! > > To wrap it up: > * static libraries are a PITA in case of security problems > * static libraries are a PITA for other projects as they have no versions > * shared libraries with self chosen soname or --releas

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello On 2009-07-21 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > > Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100 > > schrieb Roger Leigh : > > > If other libraries are including this library, then why is libmysqld > > > not being provided as a properly-version

Michelberger Hotel presents Akanni's B-Day Jam

2009-07-21 Thread Urban Berlin Events
Michelberger Hotel presents Akanni's B-Day Jam feat. live on stage: - Akanni LIVE - a special performance on the grand piano by Mic Donet - one of the best Soul singers in Germany, - Dana Shanti singing some of her new songs on the piano, - Wynton Kelly Stevenson from NJ taking Jazz to a ne

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread Jonas Meurer
Hey, On 21/07/2009 James Vega wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:08:26PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, James Vega wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > >> Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:08:26PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi James: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, James Vega wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in > >> our SVN repository (pkg-p

Re: piuparts and sbuild integration (was: piuparts run by every uploader)

2009-07-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:51:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach gregor herrmann [2009.07.21.1736 +0200]: > > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way > > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). > > Has anyone integrated it with sbuild?

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi James: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:11 PM, James Vega wrote: > On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in >> our SVN repository (pkg-perl) and display the logs, then it would give >> us a nice to-do list of

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Frans Pop
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The embedded crowd would want to find a way to get rid of bash, though, > and trying to make bash a non-essential package seems like a worthwile > effort because of that. It can even be reasonably automated, since you > can rgrep /bin/bash to find out scripts t

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Luk Claes
Raphael Geissert wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: It is not like you will be able to remove bash from the vast majority of the Debian systems out there anyway, so it doesn't matter if it remains "essential" for a while. The goal of dropping bash from essential is not to remove bash fr

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Raphael Geissert
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It is not like you will be able to remove bash from the vast majority of > the Debian systems out there anyway, so it doesn't matter if it remains > "essential" for a while. The goal of dropping bash from essential is not to remove bash from the systems (or

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:44:07 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way > > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). > In that case, using cowbuilder instead could work, #389223 Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.com

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > > But probably for the shell cases it is easier to remove 'essential' > > flag (especially for a minimal nearly POSIX-like shell like dash), > > because the interface of #!/bin/sh is defined in policy (10.3). > > Except t

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Vega
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:44:07AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Better yet, if we could periodically run it on all of the modules in > our SVN repository (pkg-perl) and display the logs, then it would give > us a nice to-do list of things to look at. http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/maintainer/p/pkg-

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread James Westby
Jonathan Yu wrote: > I'd like to see a feature to use cowbuilder's chroot instead, though I > don't know of the technical challenges there. Certainly such a feature > would make it easier to use and thus run more often. That would be useful. It requires adding explicit support in piuparts (with th

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread Ralf Treinen
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:44:41PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Do you know any tools or teams using tools that, like lintian, > automatically check packages (or whatever it is that the team is > working on) and thereby helps to maintain a common baseline? Emdebian is using edos-debcheck to ve

piuparts and sbuild integration (was: piuparts run by every uploader)

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach gregor herrmann [2009.07.21.1736 +0200]: > But I have to admit that I run it very rarely because it takes way > too long (including the time to unpack pbuilder's base.tgz). Has anyone integrated it with sbuild? After all, couldn't it just use the current chroot in which a package was

Bug#537886: ITP: quitcount -- A small tool which may help yourself quit smoking

2009-07-21 Thread Ricardo Mones
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ricardo Mones * Package name: quitcount Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Colin Leroy * URL : http://quitcount.sourceforge.net * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description : A small tool which may help yourse

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:36 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > >> Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its >> use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of >> entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I comp

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Lars Wirzenius [2009.07.21.1527 +0200]: piuparts is _intended_ to be run by every uploader, actually. Or at least that was my intention back when I wrote it. Okay, that wasn't my impression, sorry for spreading FUD. Largely due to the need of maintaining a

Re: piuparts run by every uploader

2009-07-21 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:22:07 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for its > use, I thought piuparts had too high of a barrier of > entry/maintenance to be used by everyone. Am I completely wrong? It can use pbuilder's chroot, and pbuilder --cre

Re: piuparts run by every uploader (was: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories)

2009-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 05:22:07PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lars Wirzenius [2009.07.21.1527 +0200]: > > piuparts is _intended_ to be run by every uploader, actually. Or > > at least that was my intention back when I wrote it. > > Okay, that wasn't my impression, sorry for sprea

piuparts run by every uploader (was: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories)

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lars Wirzenius [2009.07.21.1527 +0200]: > piuparts is _intended_ to be run by every uploader, actually. Or > at least that was my intention back when I wrote it. Okay, that wasn't my impression, sorry for spreading FUD. Largely due to the need of maintaining a full chroot just for it

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 09:17:28AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Wouter Verhelst] > > Whether we should recommend using static libraries is another matter > > entirely; indeed performance does go down a teeny weeny bit when using > > shared libraries, but the difference shouldn't be *that* la

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: But probably for the shell cases it is easier to remove 'essential' flag (especially for a minimal nearly POSIX-like shell like dash), because the interface of #!/bin/sh is defined in policy (10.3). Except that every package in Debian that e

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Wouter Verhelst] > Whether we should recommend using static libraries is another matter > entirely; indeed performance does go down a teeny weeny bit when using > shared libraries, but the difference shouldn't be *that* large; if it > is, that probably means they're using a twisty maze of functio

Bug#537876: ITP: libconfig-jfdi-perl -- Perl module to load any configuration files

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libconfig-jfdi-perl Version : 0.063 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-JFDI/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+

Re: Considering the removal of ntpdate

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-24 13:53, Frans Pop wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009, Frans Pop wrote: Florian Lohoff wrote: rdate ist not a replacement for ntpdate - it does not use the ntp protocol but the time protocol (builtin inetd) - So making ntpdate depend on rdate is not a solution as it changes the protocol

Bug#537873: ITP: libstring-diff-perl -- Perl module to extract differences between two strings

2009-07-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libstring-diff-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Kazuhiro Osawa * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-Diff/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > Am Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:18:23 +0100 > schrieb Roger Leigh : > > If other libraries are including this library, then why is libmysqld > > not being provided as a properly-versioned shared object? > > Upstream, in this case Monty hi

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2009-07-21 kello 15:19 +0200, martin f krafft kirjoitti: > Several people also hinted at piuparts, but that's not exactly what > I wanted, since piuparts is really more of a general quality > assurance tool, intended mostly to be run by few people over many > packages, whereas lintian and packa

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Clint Adams
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 06:14:27AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Except that every package in Debian that explicitly uses bash has no > declared dependency on bash because it's essential. I think attempting to > go through and add all those dependencies and test would be a huge waste > of time and

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 07:38:54AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-07-21, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > The long wait is the signing, not the dinstall run. Even without > > accepted dinstall runs 4 times a day now. > > > > But I have to say I'm totaly against unsigned uploads. The buildds a

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Thomas Koch [2009.07.21.1454 +0200]: > are you interested only in Debian-Teams? Mostly, but … > The eZComponents project[0] uses codesniffer[1] to check for coding styles, > e.g. indentation, necessary documentation blocks, deprecated php functions. … thanks for the pointer. Thus

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash (part two)

2009-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes: > But probably for the shell cases it is easier to remove 'essential' > flag (especially for a minimal nearly POSIX-like shell like dash), > because the interface of #!/bin/sh is defined in policy (10.3). Except that every package in Debian that explicitly uses bas

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi Martin, are you interested only in Debian-Teams? The eZComponents project[0] uses codesniffer[1] to check for coding styles, e.g. indentation, necessary documentation blocks, deprecated php functions. Beste Gruesse, Thomas [0] http://ezcomponents.org [1] http://pear.php.net/package/PHP_Code

Re: Intend to create an -fPIC library package...

2009-07-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:40:17AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > So I try to get this working on Debian, too, and create a libmysqld0 > package with a shared library instead. Speaking of it, which soname > version should I give it? 0.0.0? Or something like 0.5137.0 to somehow > encode a version

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Jonathan Yu writes: > I see these two tools as complementary, rather than competing, > technologies. You can use the data parsed via Augeas (which to me > seems like more of a lexer/tokenizer part, kind of like what yacc/lex > do) to get data from the file using a grammar. Indeed. From a

Re: Is adding dh_config and a postinst snippet ok ?

2009-07-21 Thread Dominique Dumont
Joey Hess writes: > Installing third party debhelper commands won't break anything in > debhelper, but nor will dh automatically call random such commands. See > the sequence addon information in debhelper's PROGRAMMING file for > information about adding third-party commands to dh command sequen

Re: Bug#537852: ITP: notify-osd -- daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications

2009-07-21 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:59 +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: [snip] > The Desktop Notifications framework provides a standard way of doing > passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are > designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their > work with a dialog

Re: Bug#537588: RFP: gtk-kde4 -- theme engine using Qt 4 for GTK+2.x

2009-07-21 Thread Fathi Boudra
renamed as gtk-qt-engine http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gtk-qt-engine.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#537852: ITP: notify-osd -- daemon that displays passive pop-up notifications

2009-07-21 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julian Andres Klode User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com Usertags: origin-ubuntu karmic * Package name: notify-osd Version : 0.9.15 Upstream Author : Canonical Ltd. * URL : https://launchpad.net/notify-osd * License : GPL-

Re: lintian-like tools in teams / early lintian stories

2009-07-21 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 20, 2009, at 20:44, martin f krafft wrote: Hey folks, As part of my research[0], I have two questions: Do you know any tools or teams using tools that, like lintian, automatically check packages (or whatever it is that the team is working on) and thereby helps to maintain a common base

Re: The wider implications of debhelper/dbus breakage

2009-07-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-07-21, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Philipp Kern writes: > >> On 2009-07-20, Stéphane Glondu wrote: >>> For example, each OCaml transition involve rebuilding a lot of packages >>> (about 139), with 6 levels of dependencies. So if some build takes 2 >>> days or more (for the current tra