Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-04 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 5 Jan 2012, Romain Beauxis wrote: > The same was also done for mediawiki at least when I was maintaining > it. I also wish the wordpress packagers would do the same in order to > be able to install plugins and themes simply. I don't think it's desirable to have such a simple installation

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > I once proposed to push for a general policy regarding this symlink > trick for webapps and even to write a debhelper but it did not seem to > appeal to anyone. I am still convinced, though, that it should be > standard practice. In my opin

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-04 Thread Romain Beauxis
Hi all, 2012/1/4 Simon McVittie : > On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 at 20:20:42 +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: >> Enrico Weigelt, 2011-12-31 03:55+0100: >> > IMHO this is completely wrong, those files should be under >> > /usr/lib/... or maybe even /usr/share/... as they're not >> > dynamic data. >> >> Well, whe

Bug#654667: ITP: gammaray -- Tool for examining the internals of Qt application

2012-01-04 Thread Jakub Adam
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: gammaray Version: 1.0.1 Upstream Author: Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB URL: http://www.kdab.com/gammaray License: GPL-2+ Descript

Bug#654659: ITP: plover -- stenotype input method

2012-01-04 Thread Thomas Thurman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Plover is a stenotype input method for X11. It allows input of English text using chords rather than letter by letter, enabling typing speeds to approach 300wpm for a skilled user. It can use a dedicated stenotype machin

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Matthew Woodcraft
Axel Beckert wrote: >Simon McVittie wrote: >> Would it be enough for the "your old screen binary is >> /tmp/screen-yhpoe8r/screen" notice to also say "if your /tmp is mounted >> noexec, you might need to copy it elsewhere to run it"? > That's my current plan -- with the noexec notice just being

Re: Bug#653580: ITP: yasat -- YASAT (Yet Another Stupid Audit Tool) is a simple stupid audit tool.

2012-01-04 Thread Francisco Manuel Garcia Claramonte
El mié, 04-01-2012 a las 10:56 +0100, corentin.labbe escribió: > Le 03/01/2012 21:21, Francisco Manuel Garcia Claramonte a écrit : > > Hi Corentin, > > > > According to website, YASAT doesn't look to provide any new feature > > than lynis or tiger. > > What are the advantages or differences with L

Re: Packaging best practice when upstream git contains more directory levels than the upstream tarball?

2012-01-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Axel Beckert writes ("Re: Packaging best practice when upstream git contains more directory levels than the upstream tarball?"): > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > [someone:] > > > * Distributions which build the software on package/port installation > > > time (like e.g. FreeBSD and Gentoo) rely a lot

Bug#654614: O: byzanz -- Small screencast creator

2012-01-04 Thread Bastian Venthur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Hi, I orphan the package byzanz. Upstream is still alive and the package is realively easy to maintain. It has currently 5 bugs w/ severity <= normal. Cheers, Bastian -

Bug#654603: ITP: gassst -- Global Alignment Short Sequence Search Tool

2012-01-04 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: gassst Version : 1.28 Upstream Author : Dominique Lavanier * URL : http://www.irisa.fr/symbiose/projects/gassst/ * License : CeCILL v2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Global Al

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Simon, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 at 16:26:55 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > > /tmp is a good choice because the next reboot will automatically clean > > > > up everything (and obviously the old binary will not be needed aft

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 at 16:26:55 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jan 2012, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > /tmp is a good choice because the next reboot will automatically clean > > > up everything (and obviously the old binary will not be needed after > > > a reboot). > > Thank you Axel

Re: dokuwiki and /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 01:47:52PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Enrico Weigelt > > > Well, *I* would be *very* suprised by having packaged files under /var. > > So I would have changed the app to (additionally) look for plugins > > under /usr (in this case /usr/share/dokuwiki/plugin/) > >

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2012-01-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 at 20:20:42 +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Enrico Weigelt, 2011-12-31 03:55+0100: > > IMHO this is completely wrong, those files should be under > > /usr/lib/... or maybe even /usr/share/... as they're not > > dynamic data. > > Well, when people install new plugins or new themes

Bug#654586: ITP: GNOME prepaid manager -- An applet for the GNOME Desktop that allows you to check and top up the balance of GSM mobile prepaid SIM cards

2012-01-04 Thread Guido Günther
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Guido Günther" * Package name: ppm Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Guido Günther * URL : https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/ppm/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Check and top up the b

Re: dokuwiki and /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Tollef Fog Heen, 2012-01-04 13:47+0100: > Then there are about 1490 packages in the archive that would surprise > you by their installation. > > Having packaged files under /var is hardly special. Well, at least having packages directories under /var is usual. Regular files, I do not know, but ac

Re: dokuwiki and /usr

2012-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Enrico Weigelt > Well, *I* would be *very* suprised by having packaged files under /var. > So I would have changed the app to (additionally) look for plugins > under /usr (in this case /usr/share/dokuwiki/plugin/) Then there are about 1490 packages in the archive that would surprise you by th

Re: dokuwiki and /usr [WAS: from / to /usr/: a summary]

2012-01-04 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Enrico Weigelt, 2012-01-04 02:10+0100: > Well, *I* would be *very* suprised by having packaged files under /var. > So I would have changed the app to (additionally) look for plugins > under /usr (in this case /usr/share/dokuwiki/plugin/) If you are willing to prepare a patch implementing that, I w

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:04:04PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Roger Leigh wrote: > [/tmp mounted noexec] > > > /run/shm (IIRC formerly /dev/shm) likely would be an > > > alternative option, too. > > > > No, it would not. This directory is reserved for the eglibc > > POSIX SHM/SEM inter

Re: Bug#653580: ITP: yasat -- YASAT (Yet Another Stupid Audit Tool) is a simple stupid audit tool.

2012-01-04 Thread corentin.labbe
Le 03/01/2012 21:21, Francisco Manuel Garcia Claramonte a écrit : > Hi Corentin, > > According to website, YASAT doesn't look to provide any new feature > than lynis or tiger. > What are the advantages or differences with Lynis?. Hello Tiger is old and unmaintened. For example, it warn me that m

Re: Bug#644788: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi Tollef, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Not really a serious suggestion, but for completeness > > E) ignore the problem and just let people rescue the programs stuck in > the old screen using retty, reptyr or similar. My experiences with one of these tools (IIRC retty, but I'm not sure) a few years

Re: Switching apt-spy to native package, looking for suggestions

2012-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > Let's say you're doing an Ubuntu package. In this case, you'd be > using upstart, and not an insserv scripts, and you wouldn't need to > depend on lsb-base for example. Or logrotate restarting of daemons > in Ubuntu would use "restart" in Ubuntu, when we use "invoke-rc.d". > T

Re: Bug#654116: RFH: screen -- terminal multiplexor with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation

2012-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Axel Beckert > I see the following options: [...] Not really a serious suggestion, but for completeness E) ignore the problem and just let people rescue the programs stuck in the old screen using retty, reptyr or similar. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who

Bug#654559: ITP: libfinance-qif-perl -- Parse and create Quicken Interchange Format files

2012-01-04 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: libfinance-qif-perl Version : 3.02 Upstream Author : Matthew McGillis Phil Lobbes * URL or Web page : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Finance-QIF/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ De