Bug#563219: ITP: libforest-perl -- collection of N-ary tree related modules

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libforest-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Stevan Little * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Forest/ * License : A

Bug#563217: ITP: jxplorer -- A Java Ldap Browser

2009-12-31 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com> * Package name: jxplorer Version : 3.2rc2 Upstream Author : Chris Betts * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jxplorer/ * License : Computer Associates Open Source Software License

Bug#563216: ITP: libmoosex-aliases-perl -- Moose extension for easy aliasing of methods and attributes

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmoosex-aliases-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs , Chris Prather , Justin Hunter * URL : http://search.cpan

Bug#563213: ITP: libcolor-library-perl -- comprehensive named-colour library

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcolor-library-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Robert Krimen * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Color-Library/ * Licen

Work-needing packages report for Jan 1, 2010

2009-12-31 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 646 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 131 (new: 2) Total number of packages request

Bug#563208: ITP: libtest-json-perl -- Test JSON data

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-json-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Curtis "Ovid" Poe * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-JSON/ * License

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian May
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:33:44PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-12-31, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > I know, according to rfc2606, "invalid" seems to be a choice for > > the top level domain (TLD) to construct domain names that are sure to be > > invalid from the Internet. But result is the same

Bug#563207: ITP: libmoosex-storage-perl -- serialization framework for Moose classes

2009-12-31 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmoosex-storage-perl Version : 0.23 Upstream Author : Chris Prather * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Storage/ * Lic

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > RFC 5322 doesn't mention "FQDN", "fully" or "qualified" either! Perhaps > you meant RFC 5321, which uses "FQDN" with a different meaning, and uses > "primary host name" for what is a FQDN here. Sorry, yes, that's the one I meant. The mail format standard defines for i

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-31 12:37:25 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2009-12-30 11:54:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> Vincent Lefevre writes: > > >>> "stanford.edu" is definitely wrong. First it's just a domain name, not a > >>> FQDN (as required by the mailname(5) man page). >

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-31 16:35:58 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > This is a personal opinion, but having the canonical name rely on > “hostname --fqdn” is not a favorite of mine: hostname needs the resolver > to be working and functioning (e.g. it talks to your nameservers if > /etc/hosts doesn't contain your host

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2009-12-30 11:54:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre writes: >>> "stanford.edu" is definitely wrong. First it's just a domain name, not a >>> FQDN (as required by the mailname(5) man page). >> stanford.edu is an RFC 1035 FQDN. > RFC 1035 (from /usr/sha

Thank you for everything and a happy new year!

2009-12-31 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Dear debian-team, developers and community, now as the year 2009 is over, I want to thank you for all the help, the joy you gave me with debian and the time you spent for a better it-world for us all. To all of you I say: May you have great year 2010, stay always sane, may all your dreams and

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-12-31, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I know, according to rfc2606, "invalid" seems to be a choice for > the top level domain (TLD) to construct domain names that are sure to be > invalid from the Internet. But result is the same as choosing "local". > (This was a choice which I used to use.) Using

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 03:18:51PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I prefer to allocate such host names in a real domain, and give them just > > TXT > > records or 127.0.1.1 A records in some weird cases where I can't trust the > > box to not do idiotic things like go to the D

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Iustin Pop
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:12:30PM +0100, Jeremiah Foster wrote: > > On Dec 31, 2009, at 15:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >>> POSIX says: > > Have we resolved where the can

Help with Firmware issue

2009-12-31 Thread chrisr
> To whom it may concern > > I hope you can help us as we really desperate to solve a problem we > currently facing with a product we imported from China that has a > problem with the firmware > > The product is a 3.5 incn Hard disk media player that you can use to watch > movies, download music ,

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Dec 31, 2009, at 15:04, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> POSIX says: Have we resolved where the canonical hostname is going to reside or does reside? Debian's policy manual[0] s

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-31 14:10:46 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > POSIX says: > > > > If the AI_CANONNAME flag is specified and the nodename argument is > > not null, the function shall attempt to determine the canonical name > > correspo

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-30 15:33:05 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Better correct myself here. POSIX provides a way for apps to query the > canonical host name, but DOES NOT REQUIRE IT TO BE A FQDN. > > So, it provided the notion of a "special name", the canonical host name. > > In practice, it

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-30 11:54:57 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > "stanford.edu" is definitely wrong. First it's just a domain name, not a > > FQDN (as required by the mailname(5) man page). > > stanford.edu is an RFC 1035 FQDN. RFC 1035 (from /usr/share/doc/RFC/links/rfc1035.txt.g

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 02:02:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > POSIX says: > > If the AI_CANONNAME flag is specified and the nodename argument is > not null, the function shall attempt to determine the canonical name > corresponding to nodename (for example, if nodename is an alias or >

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-30 15:31:12 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2009-12-29 17:44:31 +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > > Mutt in testing/unstable use /etc/mailname. > > > > But not the official Mutt version. > > Who lets you configure the corre

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-12-30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > >> You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to dual stack IPv4+IPv6. One point > >> being that with a v6-only host you're totally unable to reach IPv4 sites >

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-12-30, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: >> You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to dual stack IPv4+IPv6. One point >> being that with a v6-only host you're totally unable to reach IPv4 sites >> without the help of application-level proxies.

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-31 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 31 décembre 2009, vers 01:16, Sam Morris disait : >>> Adding meaningless configuration to work around programs that are >>> broken by design does not seem like a good solution. >> >> There are a lot of programs requiring some kind of FQDN (for example >

Re: Bug#563109: ITP: e17-modules-svn -- Misc plugins for the e17 window manager

2009-12-31 Thread Albin Tonnerre
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:51 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote : > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Albin Tonnerre > > * Package name: e17-modules-svn > > Version : 0.16.999.063 > > Upstream Author : e17 devel