Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 01:10:42AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > So yes, copyright files are hard and unfun but why should we continue > > to write them the way we do if we are not legally bound to do so? > > Same reason that we should continue to care about ability to install > multiple ma

Re: UID and GID generation

2016-08-15 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 01:09:20AM +0200, Martin Bammer wrote: > Does Windows save usernames for access rights? No, NTFS permissions are tied to SIDs which are like UNIX UIDs/GIDs but unique for non-default entities, because they include the computer SID (those may be non-unique if a system was clo

Re: Introducing default-mysql-* metapackages

2016-08-15 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 05:22:22PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hello maintainers of packages that depend in MySQL/MariaDB! Not everyone is required to read -devel. Mailing them where they read it (and be it Cc'ing them) would be better. I am subscribed to -devel but still missed this mai

Bug#834466: ITP: libjs-sifter.js -- Library for textually searching arrays and hashes of objects

2016-08-15 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergio Durigan Junior * Package name: libjs-sifter.js Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Brian Reavis * URL : https://github.com/brianreavis/sifter.js * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: JavaScript Description

Re: UID and GID generation

2016-08-15 Thread Michael Lustfield
> [...] In the original scenario, the concern was was with shared media having uid/gid numbers that don't match what's on the system. In that scenario, this was viewed as a security concern. This is not a security concern because once someone has physical access to your unencrypted data, it's no l

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Markus Koschany (2016-08-15 23:02:06) > So yes, copyright files are hard and unfun but why should we continue > to write them the way we do if we are not legally bound to do so? Same reason that we should continue to care about ability to install multiple major versions of a library conc

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Markus Koschany
On 15.08.2016 21:50, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2016 05:59:43 PM Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 18:17:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >>> The problem we're having here is clearly about *tooling*. If we had a >>> good toolchain to compile and audit machine-re

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, August 15, 2016 05:59:43 PM Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 18:17:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > The problem we're having here is clearly about *tooling*. If we had a > > good toolchain to compile and audit machine-readable debian/copyright > > files without sweat

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 05:59:43PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > * If we had a good toolchain to compile and audit this stuff, people > and companies who want to know the copyright holders could just use > that to inspect the upstream source code and cut out the middle-man. I've comment on th

Re: UID and GID generation

2016-08-15 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2016-08-15 01:09:20 +0200 (+0200), Martin Bammer wrote: [...] > I thought that the IDs for system services are fixed. Static ID > mapping is a nice idea which would be helpful for system services. [...] Some of them are fixed: https://wiki.debian.org/SystemGroups There are compiled-in defaults

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:53:53AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > * If we had a good toolchain to compile and audit this stuff, people > > and companies who want to know the copyright holders could just use > > that to inspect the upstream source code and cut out the middle-man. > > I think e

Re: Status of kbd console-data and console-setup

2016-08-15 Thread Cesare Leonardi
On 12/08/2016 19:50, Samuel Thibault wrote: Felipe Sateler, on Fri 12 Aug 2016 17:44:20 +, wrote: localed by itself does little more than updating /etc/default/keyboard et al[1] (it can set XKBMODEL, XKBVARIANT, XKBLAYOUT and XKBOPTIONS in that file). It then tries to invoke systemd-vconsole

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Aug 15 2016, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 18:17:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> The problem we're having here is clearly about *tooling*. If we had a >> good toolchain to compile and audit machine-readable debian/copyright >> files without sweating, nobody would complai

Bug#834438: ITP: princeprocessor -- standalone password candidate generator using the PRINCE algorithm

2016-08-15 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: princeprocessor Version : 0.21 Upstream Author : Jens Steube * URL : https://github.com/hashcat/princeprocessor * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : standalone passwo

Bug#834435: ITP: statsprocessor -- word generator based on per-position Markov chains

2016-08-15 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: statsprocessor Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Jens Steube * URL : https://github.com/hashcat/statsprocessor * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : word generator base

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 at 18:17:52 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The problem we're having here is clearly about *tooling*. If we had a > good toolchain to compile and audit machine-readable debian/copyright > files without sweating, nobody would complain. I have three slightly devil's-advocate r

Re: copyright precision

2016-08-15 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 02:19:43AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > AFAIK there are plans around sources.d.n to use the d/copyright files > in Copyright-Format 1.0. Currently they are browsable at > https://sources.debian.net/copyright/ but IIRC some more analysis is > planned. We do have downstre

Re: Please, provide a fixed Cloud Image URL for Debian

2016-08-15 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 11 August 2016 at 01:45, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 5:58 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > When we talk about Cloud Images for OpenStack, both Ubuntu and CentOS > > provides fixed URLs that never changes. > > BTW, there is a debian-cloud mailing list for Cloud discussions. Oh

Bug#834425: ITP: meqtrees-timba -- core MeqTrees package for implementing and solving arbitrary Measurement Equations

2016-08-15 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: meqtrees-timba Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: meqtrees-timba Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Oleg Smirnov * URL : https://githu

Bug#834426: ITP: meqtrees-cattery -- MeqTrees-based frameworks for simulation and calibration of radio interferometers

2016-08-15 Thread Gijs Molenaar
Package: meqtrees-cattery Owner: Gijs Molenaar Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-as...@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: meqtrees-cattery Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Oleg Smirnov * URL : https://g

Bug#834417: ITP: libjs-microplugin.js -- Lightweight plugin / dependency system for libraries

2016-08-15 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sergio Durigan Junior * Package name: libjs-microplugin.js Version : 0.0.3 Upstream Author : Brian Reavis * URL : https://github.com/brianreavis/microplugin.js * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: JavaScript Desc

Re: UID and GID generation

2016-08-15 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: UID and GID generation"): > Actually, I do like this idea; obviously with reasoning contrary to the > original report. In any small organization or a family, where you have an > ad hoc set of machines without centralized user management, it is nice to > have consistent u

Bug#834400: ITP: mkchromecast -- cast Linux Audio to your Google Cast Devices

2016-08-15 Thread Muammar El Khatib
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Muammar El Khatib * Package name: mkchromecast Version : 0.3.2 Upstream Author : Muammar El Khatib * URL : http://mkchromecast.com/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : cast Linux Audio to your

Bug#834398: ITP: r-bioc-rbgl -- R interface to the graph algorithms contained in the BOOST library

2016-08-15 Thread Christopher Hoskin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christopher Hoskin * Package name: r-bioc-rbgl Version : 1.48.1 Upstream Author : Vince Carey , Li Long , R. Gentleman * URL : http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/RBGL.html * License : Artistic-2.0