Bug#1057465: ITP: heatshrink -- A data compression/decompression library for embedded/real-time systems

2023-12-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: heatshrink Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Contact: Scott Vokes * URL : https://github.com/atomicobject/heatshrink * License : ISC Programming Lang

Bug#1056335: ITP: libbgcode -- Prusa Block & Binary G-code reader / writer / converter

2023-11-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: libbgcode Version : 0.0~git20231116.bc390aa Upstream Contact: Vojtech Bubnik * URL : https://github.com/prusa3d/libbgcode * License : AGPL-3.0

Re: Compiler runs out of memory when building a package

2023-08-13 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 01:54:48PM -0700, Dima Kogan wrote: > Hi. > > I'm looking for a suggestion to fix a problem. > > I uploaded a package, and it cleared NEW a few days ago. I now see that > it fails to build on most 32-bit arches becaues the compiler runs out of > memory. Logs: > > https:

Bug#1040751: ITP: nanosvg -- simple svg parsing library

2023-07-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: nanosvg Version : 0~git20221204.1.9da543e Upstream Contact: https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg/issues * URL : https://github.com/memonenen/nanosvg

Bug#983164: ITP: logiops -- Unofficial driver for Logitech mice and keyboards

2021-02-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: logiops Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description

Bug#952721: ITP: gcolor3 -- Simple GTK3 color selector and picker

2020-02-27 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: gcolor3 Version : 2.3.1 Upstream Author : Jente Hidskes * URL : https://github.com/Hjdskes/gcolor3 * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Simple GTK3 color selector

Re: Announce: docker-buildpackage

2018-05-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, May 02, 2018 at 11:23:56AM +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > [...] > Frankly, I don't see the point in writing this kind of software. Sbuild > works super well with the overlay backend, and already has throw-able > chroots in tmpfs. Adding docker into this doesn't add any new feature, > and in

Re: More expressive Multi-Arch field

2018-04-18 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 08:00:53AM +, Lumin wrote: > [...] > Your opinion? > > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/debmake-doc.en.txt > policy and dev-ref don't explain the Multi-Arch field. No opinion, but the field is documented in deb-control(5), present in the dpkg-de

Bug#844222: ITP: slic3r-prusa -- G-code generator for 3D printers

2016-11-13 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: slic3r-prusa Version : 1.31.4 Upstream Author : Vojtech Bubnik * URL : https://github.com/prusa3d/slic3r * License : GPL Programming Lang: Perl, C++ Description : G-code generator

Bug#805149: ITP: mediaconch -- implementation and policy checker, reporter and fixer for media files

2015-11-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: mediaconch Version : 15.10 Upstream Author : MediaArea.net SARL * URL : https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/ * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : implementation and

Re: git and https

2015-05-27 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:08:35AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:38:06AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > While we're on the subject of git security...should we stop > > > recommending that non-account-holders use git:// (most efficient, but > > > insecure against MIT

Re: init script cannot stop pid process

2015-02-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:25:38PM +0100, Mateusz Łukasik wrote: > Hello, > > I make darkhttpd package and have a small issue. > > I prepare init script: > https://github.com/mati75/darkhttpd/blob/master/debian/init and for run > script with start parameter is working fine: This is just a shot i

Re: Check whether fsck would run

2014-12-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 09:41:30AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach gustavo panizzo (gfa) [2014-12-16 03:29 > +0100]: > > you can take a look what ubuntu does, on > > /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot > > > > basically it runs dumpe2fs and parse the max mount count an

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-11-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [...] > Before we enable a firewall by default, we should, IMO, have the > following: > > - A way for a user to configure it without understanding iptables. > - A way for a user to debug (without understanding iptables) if things >

Re: Weak c++ symbols refresher needed

2014-10-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi, > > I am starring at bug #758572. Basically OP reports that `cmake` is > underlinked, which is a serious issue as per policy. However when > reading the details it appears that this is a c++ weak symbol (AFAIK > no weak defau

Bug#763836: ITP: rhc -- OpenShift command-line tools

2014-10-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: rhc Version : 1.31.2 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc. * URL : https://www.openshift.com * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : OpenShift command-line tools

Bug#755273: ITP: yagv -- yet another G-Code visualizer

2014-07-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: yagv Version : 0.4~git20130423.r5bd15ed Upstream Author : Jonathan Winterflood * URL : https://github.com/jonathanwin/yagv * License : CC-BY-3.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-06-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:43:16PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > I'd recommend that we safeguard our users against 'PHP' licensing problems > > the same way I protect myself against a meteorite hitting me on my way to > > work

Re: Bug#749456: ITP: gpx -- Gcode to x3g conversion post-processor

2014-05-27 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 08:52:24AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Chow Loong Jin > > > * Package name: gpx > > Version : x.y.z > > Upstream Author : Dr. Henry Thomas > > * URL : https://github.com/whpthomas/GPX > > * License

Bug#749456: ITP: gpx -- Gcode to x3g conversion post-processor

2014-05-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: gpx Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Dr. Henry Thomas * URL : https://github.com/whpthomas/GPX * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Gcode to x3g conversion post

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:55:02PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Kevin Chadwick [2014-08-27 20:55 +0100]: > > It also supports focus follows mouse, no raise on click > > I had forgotten, but this was the 'killer feature' that originally > switched me to XFCE, and to a significant degree keeps me the

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-04 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:27:01AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Chow Loong Jin debian.org> writes: > > > For the record, there's CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT, which when disabled, causes > all > > #! scripts to be run under /bin/sh unconditionally. > > > > *

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > [...] > Am I understanding you correctly that you don't think there are any > situations where compiling out features from the kernel can lead to pid1 > not working would be acceptable? For the record, there's CONFIG_BINFMT_SCRIPT,

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 06:33:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi Tollef, > > On Thu, 03 Apr 2014, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76935 > > > > That's being moved to systemd.debug instead of overloading debug. > > Good news. And please make Kay e

Re: systemd - some more considerations

2014-04-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 10:41:45AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > [...] > > * several kernel maintainer propose (not completely serious, but > > it shows the general opinion), to add > > + BUG_ON(!strcmp(current->comm, "systemd")); > > URLs please. http://marc.info/?l=linux-ke

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-04-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:43:34AM +, Bas van den Dikkenberg wrote: > Where do get the idea cacert uses popup's ? > > The only things states in RDL that user has to be informed about the > copyright Read the previous post, and please avoid top-posting. This post is turning out weirdly becau

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 04:47:19AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings: > > So maybe the necessary change would be: > > - move the pulseaudio ALSA plugins and this config file into a new > > binary package > > - rename the config file so it's not just an example > > - make pul

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 09:18:51AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > > As an example, most users who use systemd probably still restart > > services using "/etc/init.d/ restart", just because it works. > > > It's simply less to type if you don't otherwise like

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:09:25PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > [...] > However, the fact that multiple DDs, which I do consider all as computer > experts, failed to have a working setup, can only lead to the conclusion > that there's something wrong which has to be fixed, especially if it > come

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:57:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > [...] > (Also, how much of it > do I need for upstart? I could probably switch back to sysvinit, > too – if things will work there again.) Upstart doesn't directly make use of the LSB headers -- it just calls back onto SysV (see /e

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2013-12-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:37:05AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > Again, I don't understand why you are becoming huffy and impolite. I am > still trying to help you and you fail to follow my instructions. You > are not helping your case at all and you are not showing yourself > i

Re: Bug#728809: ITP: ndt -- A network diagnostic tool.

2013-11-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:33:14PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op 05-11-13 19:52, Dominic Hamon schreef: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Dominic Hamon > > > > * Package name: ndt > > Version : 3.6.5.2 > > * URL : http://www.internet2.edu/performan

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:07:48AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > PostBooks distributes their schema as a Postgres binary dump file for > > use with pg_restore > > What is their reason for using the binary format? Could they be > convinced to

Bug#722308: ITP: abx -- audio ABX testing software

2013-09-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: abx Version : 0.0~b1 Upstream Author : Petteri Hintsanen * URL : http://phintsan.kapsi.fi/abx.html * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : audio ABX testing software

Re: Bug#719673: ITP: needrestart -- needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

2013-08-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Patrick Matthäi > > > needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library > > upgrades. > > It is inspired by checkrestart(1) from the debian-goodies package. > > It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Re: overriding udev rules

2013-08-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:39:13AM +0200, olivier sallou wrote: > hi, > I need for a package to override some udev standard rules. > > If I put an identical rule name in /etc/udev/rules.d, I know it overrides > the one in /lib/udev/rules.d > [...] > Is there an other way to override udev rules in

Re: Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Greetings Thomas, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > [...] > Since it seems there is already a qr generator in Debian (qrencode), I > suppose > qreator has some feature that are lacking in qrencode. Could you develop > those? That would be especially useful in

Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: qreator Version : 13.05.3 Upstream Author : David Planella * URL : https://launchpad.net/qreator * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : utility for creating QR

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > [...] > > On the other hand, detecting text files is hard. The best tool so far, > "file", makes so many errors it's useless for this purpose. One could use > location: like, declaring stuff in /etc/ and /usr/share/doc/ to be text

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > > takes over such low-level hardware control. > > Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:46 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: >

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)" > > > > * Package name: mikutter > > Version : 0.2.2.1318 > >

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:15:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on > Debian systems?"): > > Unless you have a collection of MD5 collision attacks, or have installed a > > package that includes a sample MD5 collision, [...] > > Fo

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:44:49AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hi all, > > I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by > comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me > (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums > t

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> - Fast startup > > > > I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was > > a "teenager side effect" which we didn't care much about. > > Definitely not

Re: bluetooth (Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:42:46AM -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > > Broadcom is in serious need of a full-frontal attack. > > Everyone should check for them before buying hardware, > And if you 'dmidecode | grep -i broadcom' gives or says anything, > spend your money elsewhere. > > Or take it

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-07-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
onfig's job to fix up > a dangling e.g. > libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.2 > symlink (because it's a missing dependency). > > On 2013-07-01 03:29, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > I believe that he's referring to ld.so.cache containing a mapping of > $SONAME -> &

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-06-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 04:46:28PM -0400, Dave Steele wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > AFAIK most of these get fixed up by ldconfig, which means they're not a > > problem in practice. > > It wasn't clear to me how this would be the case, so I reran the logs > wi

Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav

2013-06-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:04:40AM -0700, Austin English wrote: > [...] > FYI, some Windows viruses work under Wine (which can do whatever your > normal user can do, unless you're using AppArmor or something similar > to restrict it). That's not entirely true -- a Windows-based keylogger wouldn't

Re: On upstart implementing Debian Policy §9.11.1 on behalf of sysv init scripts

2013-06-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:52:40AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 21 June 2013 11:24, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> On 20 June 2013 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes

Re: On upstart implementing Debian Policy §9.11.1 on behalf of sysv init scripts

2013-06-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 20 June 2013 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > > > >> Thus in a bug report 712763 [4], included below, I instead propose > >> instead shipping slightly larger block of code in the upstart package > >> w

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will > > take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Ple

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > [...] > |While it is sad that those machines cannot profit from systemd, switching > |to systemd as a default has no downside either: Debian continues to > |support sysvinit for quite some time, so these machines will continue > |to work

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:04 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > > On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you sh

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 28/05/13 03:02, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > > > > Are there any objections other than "

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:38:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > Not for what he's described. dig @$other_server would still work just fine, > you would merely have /etc/resolv.conf pointing at 127.0.0.1 and have the > *kernel* handle the DNS forwarding instead of using dnsmasq or another

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:22:32AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > [...] > I've also seen another laptop that is on the fringe of a wifi coverage > zone getting into a bad state where multiple copies of the wifi password > window appear - if the laptop is unattended for a few hours, you can > come ba

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:10:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chow Loong Jin (11/06/2013): > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I said random, not deterministic. Giving back until a certain test > > > succeeds, for instance. Becau

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Chow, > > am Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:15:48AM +0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > >

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:45:35PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > [...] > > A. resolv.conf is a static file which changes only very rarely. > > Implications: > > 1. Existing DNS client applications do not need to change. > > 2. DNS service should always be provided at a fixed address > >

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:31:07PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:17:26PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > > > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Isn't this p

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:43:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > even "slight" removal commands), which allow him to do the most of > > packaging work

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:42:55PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:12:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > > > >> > > > >> Isn't this packaged already? You don'

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:06:24AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 10-06-13 10:32, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:59:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> On 08-06-13 00:33, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > >> > >> Isn't this p

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:06:40PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > [...] > In my gross stupidity this seems like a nonissue. How does a popup > asking for your root p/w differ from using the CLI, typing "su" and > being asked for the root p/w? I'm assuming that the popup was in > connection with a

Re: Bug#711359: ITP: python-first -- simple function that returns the first true value from an iterable

2013-06-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > On Thursday, June 06, 2013 09:01:05 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Julien Danjou > > > > > > * Package name

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:00:39AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to > my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. > I know the the soname of a library can be specify by passing > appropriate options to

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> Did I miss anything? > > I don't understand at all how you could have missed such a prime > opportunity to rile up the vi vs. emacs debate while you were at > it... or am I showing my

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-06-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/06/2013 00:33, Simon McVittie wrote: > [...] > The current upstream systemd has an "include" mechanism by which the > unit in /etc can say "copy all keys from the upstream version in /lib, > then set Foo=bar", and also a mechanism by which individual keys in a > unit can be overridden by a se

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
I really like how this paragraph: On 23/05/2013 02:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > And another one. Why is it that almost anyone who isn't favor of > systemd is directly going off insulting their developers or any > of the organizations behind of it? and this paragraph: > Blame Ca

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 23/05/2013 02:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Sure; obviously the right thing to do is to instead take stuff from GNOME >> > and freedesktop.org without regard to integration with our existing system, >> > because if Lennart says it's right it must be so. > Honestly, these personal accus

Re: Do opaque struct changes break C library ABIs

2013-05-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 19:50, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 17/05/13 10:43, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On 17/05/2013 13:17, Guillem Jover wrote: >>> I agree dlopen()ing shared libraries in general should not be >>> supported (I'd even go further and say this should be outrigh

Re: Do opaque struct changes break C library ABIs

2013-05-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 13:17, Guillem Jover wrote: > Yeah that should be the case, the dynamic linker should not be > loading the same SONAME multiple times, so there should be no race > here, and I agree dlopen()ing shared libraries in general should not > be supported (I'd even go further and say this sho

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of wrongdoings is > long: > - Patch releases are only available from the git repository Maybe I'm daft, but I can't seem to find any patch releases, actually. Where are they stored? -

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-05-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/05/2013 06:06, Florian Weimer wrote: > I mistyped, I meant ABI. I'm deeply sorry about that, it mangles my > statement quite badly. > > AFAIK, this is the major reason why the C++11 support is still marked > as experimental. C++ never had a set ABI in the standard. It's up to compiler/tool

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/05/2013 16:12, Arto Jantunen wrote: > Chow Loong Jin writes: > >> On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>> Isn't that already possible? >> >> It is? I should try that out with my next upload. > > No, it's not. Source only up

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Isn't that already possible? It is? I should try that out with my next upload. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/05/2013 18:48, Neil Williams wrote: > After Wheezy is released, we can talk about throwing away all binary > uploads again... if we can't prevent people doing the wrong thing, we > might have to send bits of what gets uploaded to /dev/null. While we're at it, can we also have source-only upl

Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-04-24 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 23/04/2013 23:15, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Joachim Breitner debian.org> writes: > >> The (luxury) problem is that I got used to it and began uploading the >> new (and NEW) dependency bar of package foo along with the new version >> of foo (instead of uploading bar first, wait for NEW processin

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/04/2013 06:43, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 04:19:19AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> Actually, in the event of aptitude not being able to resolve the dependencies >> satisfactorily the first round (from aptitude install foo), aptitude allows >> yo

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/04/2013 23:02, Eugene Lychauka wrote: > http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.html#pkgmgmt > > Here we can read: > > "The preferred program for interactive package management from a > terminal is aptitude. For a non-interactive command line interface for >

Re: Physical page zeroing on allocation

2013-04-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 04/04/2013 06:39, Viacheslav Fedorov wrote: > Samuel Thibault mailto:sthiba...@debian.org>> writes: >>>when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page Fault, >>> why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes? >>> I understand it has something to do with security. >>See man mmap. Anonymous mem

Re: Bug#703946: general: OS freezes, but mouse and ping keeps working

2013-03-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 26/03/2013 16:28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 26-03-13 09:03, Philipp Kern wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:18:25AM +0100, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: >>> as far as I googled, Chrome is not packaged by Debian, but Chromium is. >>> So better complain at Google. >> >> If userspace is able t

Re: RFC declarative built-using field generation

2013-02-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/02/2013 08:38, Russ Allbery wrote: > The proposal made in the Policy bug, which seems quite reasonable to me, > is that we should only annotate packages with Built-Using if there are > license implications to the inclusion of the source. Documenting things > like libgcc.a that have explicit,

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-02-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/02/2013 10:07, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 10:00:47AM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > [...] >> Well, relative to other languages, I think Python's had the most changes >> with regards to build helper tools -- there was dh_pycentral, and >> d

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-02-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 07/02/2013 09:16, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > Debian's Python build helper tools are still breeding like rabbits, >> > there is a new one in experimental. I guess because the current ones >> > dh_python2/dh_python3 don't handle packages that contain only code >> > that runs on both python2 and

Re: socket-based activation has unmaintainable security?

2013-02-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 07/02/2013 01:35, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> > > Which would be the wrong way of doing things / wrong reason > for using root as running user, since you can set the > CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE capability... (man capabilities ...) Yeah, I figured as much, but isn't that a Linuxism? -- Kind regards, L

Re: socket-based activation has unmaintainable security?

2013-02-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 06/02/2013 16:27, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Shawn [2013-02-05 18:43]: > >> socket-activation in systemd _helps_ security in that you can give an >> unprivlidged process a listening port under 1024. (using a privileged >> configuration file) > > Privileged vs. unprivileged port is not really

Re: Building and using shared libraries using gccgo

2013-02-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 05/02/2013 18:53, Steve McIntyre wrote: > FFS, yet another new language where the implementors have refused to > think ahead and consider ABI handling? Idiots. :-( I totally agree with you here. > Considering the mess that we already have with (for example) Haskell > in this respect, I would v

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-31 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 01/02/2013 05:23, Barry Warsaw wrote: > This arrangement works pretty well for me in practice, especially since > `virtualenv --system-site-packages` can usually give you the mix you need. Yes it does in most cases, but --system-site-packages can do the wrong thing in certain edge-cases like tr

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-31 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 31/01/2013 13:32, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >> > > Don't forget package.el for emacs! Wait, what? package.el uses Ruby, and not elisp? -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 31/01/2013 05:16, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> > >>> > > Having multiple package managers which don't know about each other on a > system >>> > > is evil™ (but in some cases, can be

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/01/2013 05:57, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > I am not familiar with the Ruby situation, I only know that many Ruby > developers seem to be very angry at Debian people. Is there a summary of > the events that I could read? I'm not very familiar with the situation myself, but the gist of it, as

Re: tool to create debian/copyright files paragraphs?

2013-01-28 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 28/01/2013 20:04, Paul Wise wrote: > licensecheck --copyright -r `find -type f` | > /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 > debian/copyright You don't need the the `find...` bit in there. "-r" is recursive, so just specifying "." is good enough. licensecheck2dep5 is actually pretty good. I use it to

Re: Linux Future

2013-01-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 24/01/2013 13:09, Adam Borowski wrote: > [...] > * the monolithic design has a huge freeness problem. To do anything not on > a rigid list of features you need to learn the intricaties of a large > complex system, and you can be certain that even if you manage to do so, > your patches wil

Re: multiarch dependency hell. build amd64, can't install without also building i386

2013-01-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 24/01/2013 12:56, Paul Johnson wrote: > [...] > I've just learned that, if I build amd64 packages, I can't install > them for testing because I've not also built the i386 packages. > [...] > That's really inconvenient! I don't understand why there has to be a > linkage between the shared library

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/01/2013 06:16, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > >> > I believe that dpkg-shlibdeps checks in these places: >> > - /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.shlibs >> > - /etc/dpkg/shlibs.{default,override} >> > >> > Could you grep libc6-amd64 in these places? That should provide a hint as >> > to >> > where this depen

Re: problematic shlibs entry in substvars file

2013-01-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
[Whoops, forgot to send on list] On 15/01/2013 15:48, Paul Johnson wrote: > To create the shlibs dependency, I think dpkg-shlibdeps is reading > files in /var/lib/dpkg/info. I can't find any "2.7" associated with > libc6-amd in there. > > And, if libc6-amd is really the i386 version of the C libr

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 07/01/2013 13:23, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > You are wrong. Debian Edu also expect /etc/network/interfaces to have > the complete network setup. What package is that? -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 07/01/2013 07:12, Michael Biebl wrote: > Please keep in mind that such a setup will break existing tools and > scripts, which rely on finding the interface definitions in /e/n/i. > E.g. the ifupdown plugin in NetworkManager doesn't know anything about > such a source directive. > If you are goin

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