Re: Taking care of exising packages

2009-08-23 Thread Jason Heeris
If anyone is interested, I'd like to offer my perspective here as someone who was, and still is, really quite enthusiastic about helping Debian, but hasn't really found a way to do so yet. Sorry, but it turned into a bit of an essay when I wasn't looking. Let me just disclaim, too: I'm trying to

A student hopes to learn more about the Debian Community and Free/Open Source Software

2009-08-23 Thread Tiebing Shi
Dear friends, I have been reading your postings to this mailing list. I have really enjoyed reading about your perspectives on the Free/Open Source Software phenomenon. My name is Tiebing Shi and I am a Ph.D. student at Queen's University in Canada. I am very interested in learning more about

New PAM abstraction: /etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive

2009-08-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, With the upload of pam 1.0.1-11 to unstable, we've fixed a long-standing bug in the /etc/pam.d/common-* abstractions: namely, that there was no way to set separate system-wide policies for interactive vs. non-interactive sessions (bug #169930). The PAM MiniPolicy (/usr/share/doc/libpam

Re: Bug#543150: ITP: pdkim -- cryptographically identify the sender of email

2009-08-23 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On lördagen den 22 augusti 2009, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > Magnus Holmgren writes: > > * Self-contained, no dependencies (except libc), thanks to code > > included from the PolarSSL project. > > > From a Debian perspective, that's a policy violation, not a feature! > > Please arrange for it to us

Re: Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-23 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, (Adding debian-devel for additional comments, and previous contributors to the topic) As mentioned in #533265, the advice to update apt and aptitude at the beginning of an upgrade may fail. With a standard Etch install (i.e. only "standard" is selected in tasksel), apt-utils and aptitude

Bug#543255: ITP: libpoex-types-perl -- Perl module to provide MooseX::Types for POE

2009-08-23 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gregor herrmann -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libpoex-types-perl Version : 0.091420 Upstream Author : Nicholas Perez * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/POEx-Types/ * License : GPL-3 P

Bug#543241: ITP: dwoo -- PHP5 template engine

2009-08-23 Thread Penny Leach
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Penny Leach * Package name: dwoo Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Jordi Boggiano * URL : http://dwoo.org * License : Modified BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : PHP5 template engine Dwoo is a PHP5 templat

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
* Julien BLACHE (jbla...@debian.org) [090823 11:53]: > Andreas Barth wrote: > > send a mail to d-d-a with "how to do it" and a list of affected > > packages, and then step-by-step file the appropriate bug reports > > (only for packages which can dump their la-file). > > Please go ahead with that.

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Andreas Barth wrote: Hi Aba, > send a mail to d-d-a with "how to do it" and a list of affected > packages, and then step-by-step file the appropriate bug reports > (only for packages which can dump their la-file). Please go ahead with that. It's going to be much much easier to remove the .la fi

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Andreas Barth
(followup from -release, text from there is reused, so if you read -release things are not too new for you) Hi, from time to time we have "funny" RC bugs thanks to dependencies hidden in .la-files. Also these files lead to unneeded dependencies between packages (in the case package A needs lib B