Bug#745588: ITP: grub-choose-default -- A GUI for easily changing the default in grub2

2014-04-22 Thread David Mohr
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Mohr * Package name: grub-choose-default Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : David Mohr * URL : http://de.mcbf.net/david/grubchoosedefault/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : A GUI for easily cha

Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs

2014-04-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:40 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Given all the recent issues with popular packages containing minified > JavaScript and other sourceless files, I'm hoping to get feedback from > people about how the solution can be generalized to help as many > developers as possible. You m

Bug#745575: ITP: libplack-middleware-removeredundantbody-perl -- Plack::Middleware which sets removes body for HTTP response if it's not required

2014-04-22 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Owner: Florian Schlichting Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libplack-middleware-removeredundantbody-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Upasana * URL : https://metacpan.org/rel

Re: automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs

2014-04-22 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > > I've just added some comments on my blog about tracking upstream > tarballs that need to be repackaged and automating whatever we can: > > http://danielpocock.com/automatically-creating-repackaged-upstream-tarballs-for-debian > > Given

Bug#745572: ITP: libplack-middleware-methodoverride-perl -- Override REST methods to Plack apps via POST

2014-04-22 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Owner: Florian Schlichting Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libplack-middleware-methodoverride-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : David E. Wheeler * URL : https://metacpan.org/

Bug#745569: ITP: libplack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect-perl -- Plack::Middleware which sets body for redirect response, if it's not already set

2014-04-22 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Owner: Florian Schlichting Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libplack-middleware-fixmissingbodyinredirect-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Upasana * URL : https://metacpan.or

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Santiago Vila
Back in the early kfreebsd-* days, there was a server called ftp.gnuab.org where every kind of hack was allowed in the source to make packages build. Moreover, we could make NMUs at will without having to ask the maintainer for permission, because they were for the "unreleased" distribution. This a

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > (a) Diffs are not made to be readable, they are made to update > > things. As those diffs are the result of an automatic processs, you > > should only need to look at the updated file, not at the diff. > > Moreover, if they are unrea

Re: Bug#605090: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-22 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 08:30:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 05:28 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > On 17/04/14 00:23, Aaron Zauner wrote: > > > Now shipping grsec is a really good idea. I'd like to see that as well. > > > > There has been an attempt to provid

automatically maintaining/tracking repackaged upstream tarballs

2014-04-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
I've just added some comments on my blog about tracking upstream tarballs that need to be repackaged and automating whatever we can: http://danielpocock.com/automatically-creating-repackaged-upstream-tarballs-for-debian Given all the recent issues with popular packages containing minified Java

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 01:14:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Santiago Vila writes: > > (a) Diffs are not made to be readable, they are made to update > > things. As those diffs are the result of an automatic processs, you > > should only need to look at the updated file, not at the diff. > > Mo

Re: Bug#745259: ITP: apt-transport-tor -- APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor

2014-04-22 Thread Tim Retout
On 22 April 2014 13:10, David Kalnischkies wrote: > It is also such a trivial modification¹ that I wonder why a fork is > needed as the required metadata will easily exceed the code changes. > Just provide a patch which does those settings based on the name of > the binary called, like apt is hand

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 06:42:27AM +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > > It may be that libgc upstream's autogen.sh script is not really 'right' in > > some way. But there may well be a lot of upstreams like that, which is > > why maintainers need clear guidance on how to deal with this, withou

Re: Arm64 port live on debian-ports

2014-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 13:40 -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 05:29:13PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 09:08 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 04:28:45PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2014-04-20 at 16:13 +0100, Ben H

Re: automatic autoconf config file updating

2014-04-22 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 07:08:30PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > If we decide dh-autoreconf is the way forward, that is. > > Personally I would then silence the lintian warning, because... > > a) I dislike dh-autoreconf: It removes changed files which breaks my > workflow where disappear

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila writes: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> The one thing that we absolutely should *not* do is ship the results of >> autoreconf as a diff. That diff is (a) completely unreadable, (b) >> huge, and (c) unstable across versions, which makes life incred

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 07:45:41PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:40:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > There's no substitute for rebuilding from source. :) I used to be a bit > > skeptical of that push for Autoconf and friends, but the more I've worked > > with it, the

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 11:36:52AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Santiago Vila writes: > > I would rather autoreconf at dpkg-buildpackage time in such a way that > > you get an updated Debian source every time you make a new Debian > > release for such package (something like > > debian/patches/aur

Re: Proposing amd64-hardened architecture for Debian

2014-04-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2014-04-21 at 05:28 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 17/04/14 00:23, Aaron Zauner wrote: > > Now shipping grsec is a really good idea. I'd like to see that as well. > > There has been an attempt to provide an official grsec-flavour of the > Debian kernel, but it didn't worked:

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila writes: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:40:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> There's no substitute for rebuilding from source. :) I used to be a >> bit skeptical of that push for Autoconf and friends, but the more I've >> worked with it, the more I've come around to the position tha

Re: About a mass bug report not based on Sid or Jessie.

2014-04-22 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:40:10PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > There's no substitute for rebuilding from source. :) I used to be a bit > skeptical of that push for Autoconf and friends, but the more I've worked > with it, the more I've come around to the position that we should treat > the confi

Bug#745509: RFP: light-locker-settings -- Simple configuration tool for light-locker.

2014-04-22 Thread slawomir_1992
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: light-locker-settings Version: 1.2.1 Upstream Author: [Thomas Molloy (not sure)] URL: [https://launchpad.net/light-locker-settings] L

Bug#745502: ITP: ruby-em-redis -- an eventmachine-based implementation of the Redis protocol

2014-04-22 Thread Praveen Arimbrathodiyil
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Praveen Arimbrathodiyil * Package name: ruby-em-redis Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Jonathan Broad, Eugene Pimenov * URL : https://rubygems.org/gems/em-redis * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Re: Bug#745259: ITP: apt-transport-tor -- APT transport for anonymous package downloads via Tor

2014-04-22 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 11:50:32PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: > This software works! It was forked from the apt HTTPS transport. It doesn't > yet have a build system or any packaging, but hopefully that's the easy part. It is also such a trivial modification¹ that I wonder why a fork is needed as

Bug#745498: ITP: libzhuyin -- Zhuyin input method library

2014-04-22 Thread 陳昌倬
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: IME Packaging Team * Package name: libzhuyin Version : 0.9.93 Upstream Author : Peng Wu * URL : https://github.com/libzhuyin/libzhuyin * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Zhuyin input method libr

Bug#745497: ITP: python-geventhttpclient -- High performance, concurrent http client library for python with gevent

2014-04-22 Thread Sebastien Badia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastien Badia * Package name: python-geventhttpclient Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Antonin Amand * URL : https://github.com/gwik/geventhttpclient * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : High

Re: GR: Code of conduct: Second call for votes

2014-04-22 Thread Xavier LUTHI
On Sat, 19 Apr 2014 09:42:29 +0200 Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Hi, > > This is the second call for votes on the code of conduct GR. > > Voting period starts 00:00:00 UTC on Monday, April 14th, > 2014 Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, April 27nd, > 2