Re: Processing times for the NEW queue (was Re: Bits from DPL)

2025-03-11 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 11:19:52AM +0100, Timo Röhling wrote: > I'm not an FTP Team member, but I happen to have analyzed exactly this > question in detail [1]. The FTP team is very transparent in this regard and > provides all processing logs, so any DD can verify this for themselves. Thank you f

Bug#1081247: ITP: tox-uv -- tox plugin replacing virtualenv and pip with uv

2024-09-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, eam...@debian.org Control: block -1 with 1069776 * Package name: tox-uv Version : 1.11.3 Upstream Contact: Bernát Gábor * URL : https://github.com/tox-dev/tox-uv

Re: Reviving schroot as used by sbuild

2024-06-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 02:02:11PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Could we use a container framework that is also used outside the Debian > bubble, rather than writing our own from first principles every time, and > ending up with a single-maintainer project being load-bearing for Debian > *again*?

Bug#1068131: ITP: bootterm -- simple terminal to ease connections with SBCs

2024-03-31 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bootterm Version : 0.4+git2023013 Upstream Contact: Willy Tarreau * URL : https://github.com/wtarreau/bootterm * License : Expat Programming

Bug#1032143: ITP: python-pkcs11 -- high level PKCS#11 interface for Python

2023-02-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python-pkcs11 Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Danielle Madeley * URL : https://github.com/danni/python-pkcs11/ * License : Expat

Bug#1031300: ITP: sphinx-argparse-cli -- Sphinx extension to render CLI arguments defined by the argparse module

2023-02-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: sphinx-argparse-cli Version : 1.11.0 Upstream Author : Bernát Gábor * URL : https://github.com/tox-dev/sphinx-argparse

Bug#1031298: ITP: pyproject-api -- API to interact with Python pyproject.toml-based projects

2023-02-14 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-pyt...@lists.debian.org * Package name: pyproject-api Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Bernát Gábor * URL : https://github.com/tox-dev/pyproject-api

Re: generic viewer for md files

2022-01-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 04:29:54PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Lowdown indeed has some interesting features as interactive Markdown > *reader* - thanks for mentioning. Package description however does not > mention if _always_ a superset of markdown/CommonMark is parsed or the > tool can b

Re: generic viewer for md files

2022-01-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 02:12:06PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Personally I am of the opinion that more ideally such documentation > should be treated as a source format with two targets - html and > plaintext - and that both those target formats should be generated > during package build a

Bug#982012: ITP: dbip-lite-databases -- IP geolocation databases

2021-02-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: dbip-lite-databases Version : 202102 Upstream Author : Eris Networks S.A.S * URL : https://db-ip.com/ * License : CC-BY 4.0 Programming Lang: - Description : IP geolocation

Bug#851940: ITP: certspotter -- Certificate Transparency Log Monitor

2017-01-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: certspotter Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Opsmate, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/SSLMate/certspotter * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Certificate

Bug#819027: ITP: xiccd -- X11/colord ICC bridge

2016-03-22 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: xiccd Version : 0.2.2 Upstream Author : Alexey Galakhov * URL : https://github.com/agalakhov/xiccd/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Programming Lang: C Description : X11/colord ICC bridge

Re: Bug#795113: ITP: twemproxy -- fast and light-weight proxy for memcached and redis

2015-08-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 08/10/15 21:52, Jonas Genannt wrote: * Package name: twemproxy Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Twitter Inc * URL : https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: C Description : fast and light-weight proxy for memca

Re: motd handling in jessie & beyond

2015-01-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 07:08:22PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 04:20:36PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > c) base-files shipping /etc/update-motd.d, plus a script: > >00-uname: #!/bin/sh\nuname -snrvm\n > > Could you please choose another

Re: motd handling in jessie & beyond

2015-01-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:56:44AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > as this seems to be only about including the output of `uname' in motd, > how about just *not* including it? I never found it to be particular > helpful anyway... > > If you want to include information about the machine you are co

motd handling in jessie & beyond

2014-12-31 Thread Faidon Liambotis
motd handling spans multiple packages (libpam-modules, login, ssh, base-files, initscripts, systemd) and multiple uncoordinated half-baked attempts to take it to different directions have left the current state of affairs a bit of a mess. Steve Langasek (rightfully) suggested on #764841 to use debi

Bug#768979: ITP: geoipupdate -- MaxMind GeoIP/GeoIP2 database updates

2014-11-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: geoipupdate Version : 2.1.0 Upstream Author : MaxMind, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/maxmind/geoipupdate * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : MaxMind GeoIP/GeoIP2

Re: so long and thanks for all the fish

2014-11-08 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 11/07/14 23:04, Joey Hess wrote: It's become abundantly clear that this is no longer the project I originally joined in 1996. We've made some good things, and I wish everyone well, but I'm out. Extremely sad to read this, Joey. The few times we've crossed paths, I've enjoyed working with yo

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

2014-06-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 06/26/14 14:00, Ondřej Surý wrote: I did have a quite long and extensive chat with FTP Masters and our conclusion was that PHP License (any version) is suitable only for software that comes directly from "PHP Group", that basically means only PHP (src:php5) itself. This issue reached Planet

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

2014-06-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 06/26/14 14:00, Ondřej Surý wrote: I should have done this earlier before cloning the bugs, so here's some more background on the bugs filled. I did have a quite long and extensive chat with FTP Masters and our conclusion was that PHP License (any version) is suitable only for software that c

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 12/23/13 02:15, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by running it by the Software Freedom Law Center. Red Hat has real lawyers who looked

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-11-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 11/29/13 10:22, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: * [mips, mipsel] buildds/porterboxes run on hardware which is very old or has known defects: - mips octeon is unstable Better me more precise there, Octeon machines in general are ver

Re: ITP: ruby-em-hiredis -- fast and simple Redis client for EventMachine

2013-06-20 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 06/21/13 02:59, Per Andersson wrote: Package: wnpp Please use X-Debbugs-Cc when filing ITP bugs (or reportbug, which does this automatically). Do not Cc debian-devel directly, as it's impossible for someone to properly reply to your bug report without looking its bug number up on the WNPP

Bug#712107: ITP: nutcracker -- Fast, light-weight proxy for memcached and Redis

2013-06-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: nutcracker Version : 0.2.5 (TBA) Upstream Author : Twitter, Inc. * URL : https://github.com/twitter/twemproxy * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: C Description : Fast, light

Re: ITP: foreman -- manage Procfile-based applications

2013-06-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 06/10/13 03:46, Per Andersson wrote: * Package name: foreman Version : 0.63.0 Upstream Author : David Dollar * URL : http://github.com/ddollar/foreman * License : MIT Programming Lang: Ruby Description : manage Procfile-based applications For

Bug#710271: ITP: librdkafka -- library implementing the Apache Kafka protocol

2013-05-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: librdkafka Version : 0.8.0 Upstream Author : Magnus Edenhill * URL : https://github.com/edenhill/librdkafka * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: C Description : library

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-03-31 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 04/01/13 05:48, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Uoti Urpala dijo [Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:12:46AM +0300]: No, that's not what I'm saying. But I think the release team is primarily responsible for the policies that harm the work other maintainers do on unstable. A release must not be the only goal for pac

Bug#694173: ITP: gdnsd -- authoritative domain name server

2012-11-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis * Package name: gdnsd Version : 1.6.9 Upstream Author : Brandon L Black * URL : https://github.com/blblack/gdnsd * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : authoritative domain name

Bug#692483: ITP: dnsperf -- DNS server performance testing tool

2012-11-06 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis Control: block -1 by 692467 * Package name: dnsperf Version : 2.0.0.0 Upstream Author : Nominum, Inc. * URL : http://www.nominum.com/support/measurement-tools/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 08/11/12 01:12, Russ Allbery wrote: > There are choices that we don't support because the process of supporting > that choice would involve far more work than benefit, and the final goal > is excellence, not choice for its own sake. For example, we don't allow > users to replace the system C li

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-21 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 07/21/12 23:58, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > You're complaining about the posting volume of a list that has 13 + > 17 + 16 + 7 + 8 + 10 + 4 = 75 messages this year, or about 2.6 days > between posts. Is this a reasonable complaint? I don't think so. > > In my opinion, _every_ technical committee dec

Re: Bug#659753: ITP: libnet-irr-perl -- Net::IRR - Perl interface to the Internet Route Registry Daemon

2012-02-13 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Carlos, On 02/13/12 17:29, Carlos Vicente wrote: > Hopefully this module will stimulate development of new Route > Registry tools written in Perl. An example of Route Registry tools > can be found by googling for RAToolset which is now known as the > IRRToolset. The RAToolset was originally develo

Re: Minified files and source code requirement

2011-10-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 10/27/11 20:53, Russ Allbery wrote: > Compressing all the whitespace out of it seems fine to me; you can fix > that well enough using an indenter. If the variables are also rewritten > into meaningless names, I think it becomes more borderline. If the code > is part "compiled" by, for instance

Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional

2011-10-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 10/15/11 22:06, Steve Langasek wrote: Needing to send mail through specific per-user smarthosts is the exception, not the rule. Most machines have a designated forwarding smarthost based on who their ISP is, not based on which email address someone wants to use. The exception to which rule?

Re: Bug#638976: ITP: python-gitdb -- a pure-Python git object database

2011-08-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 08/23/11 15:56, Marco Túlio Gontijo Silva wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva > > * Package name: python-gitdb > Version : 0.5.4 > Upstream Author : Sebastian Thiel > * URL : http://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitdb

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Jon Dowland wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 07:22:47PM +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote: It also can't do VLANs (.1q), bridges, bonds and all possible permutations of the above. I'd speculate that it also wouldn't be able to do things like 1k (or more) interfaces. It also doesn

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-03 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 04/03/11 19:08, Fernando Lemos wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:11 AM, martin f krafft wrote: [...] last I checked, for instance, it was not possible to hook up two network cards with DHCP. [...] Hmmm I do have two network cards and they both get IP addresses with DHCP as I would expect (wh

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 03/02/11 05:24, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Interesting that everyone talks about update-rc.d but it appears that nobody > has read its documentation: > >> A common system administration error is to delete the links with >> the thought that this will "disable" the service, i.e., that this will >

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 02/11/11 14:20, Torsten Werner wrote: grep, sed, awk, bash, ... ? $ echo αβγ | sed 's/./a/' aβγ Regards, Φαίδων :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Bug#610165: ITP: less.js -- JavaScript parser of LESS "Leaner CSS" macro language

2011-01-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: LESS is a macro language to produce CSS files. I'd start with that and expand it a bit. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: 38

2010-08-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Russ Allbery wrote: > Could you please either start reporting (wishlist) bugs asking to make > these scripts more robust against strange administrative practices or get > tired of all this a little bit faster? A large thread in debian-devel > with no concrete actionable reports is basically useles

Re: dsniff is dead, long life to dsniff

2010-03-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luciano Bello wrote: > I'm the dsniff[1] maintainer, which is a pretty dead project[2]. Dug > Song (the upstream) is putting his efforts in rewrite the project in > python[3], which is quite limited compared to the previous one. > The question is: should I package this new version as a

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-03-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Can you guys upstream a package into Debian with a gitweb URL reference? If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. We have Vcs-$VCS (i.e. Vcs-Git) and Vcs-Browser pseudo-headers. Both are optional. I agree with Kel here, git2cl et al are unimportant details. Kel

Re: [RFH] Debian 2.6.32 CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY, wireless-regdb and crda

2010-02-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > As per Paul Wise' advice I'd like to request for help with the > crda/wireless-regdb package for Debian for the next release of Debian. > I am the upstream crda maintainer and John Linville is the upstream > wireless-regdb maintainer. Kel Modderman has already done most w

Re: Xen, Squeeze, and Beyond

2010-02-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Feb 26, Luca Capello wrote: > 5) Do we recommend that new installations of lenny or of squeeze avoid Xen for ease of upgrading to squeeze+1? If so, what should they use? >>> It depends. KVM in lenny is buggy and lacks important features. While it >>> works fine

Re: Bug#561688: ITP: turbotail -- drop-in replacement for tail, using FAM for following files

2009-12-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Christian Dietrich wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Christian Dietrich > > > * Package name: turbotail > Version : 0.3 > Upstream Author : Folkert van Heusden > * URL : http://www.vanheusden.com/turbotail/ > * License : GPL > Programming

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I'm fine with letting ftpmasters take that decision. However, they > should consult the project before adding new tags (mail to -devel: "We > are thinking of adding those new tags to our list, comments?" instead of > a mail to -devel saying "We just blocked the following tag

Re: Lintian based autorejects

2009-11-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Steve Langasek wrote: > And I objected before when this was first proposed that the ftp team should > not be auto-rejecting from the archive for any issues that are not > violations of Policy "must" requirements. > > The right process is: discuss; reach a consensus; amend Policy; enforce > Policy

Re: Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

2009-10-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Michael S Gilbert wrote: > - asterisk (embed) It only shipped prototype as an example file, along with a demo webpage the used it. Since it was of limited usefulness and apparently also vulnerable, it has been removed from yesterday's upload (1:1.6.2.0~rc3-1). Thanks, Faidon -- To UNSU

Re: usplash-theme-debian uploaded to sid

2009-10-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > There are probably three set of defacto-stantards. Those extra format > could be interesting > * VESA: 2560×1600 (on 30 inches monitors... lucky guys) > * Laptops: 1280×800 (as noted by Eugene), 1440×900, 1680×1050 > * LCD TVs: 1920×1080 > * Notebook: not much to add.

Re: mms.mycricket.com user

2009-10-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Don, hi, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >> If this is directly subscribed, could the listmasters remove the >> subscription? > > It's unfortunatly not directly subscribed. We'll try to run through a > bounce run and see i

Re: mms.mycricket.com user

2009-10-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > Could the list subscriber who is using this service please stop it > from sending list posters incredibly confusing bounce messages please? > > It looks like the bounces contain vaguely private information so > not reposting here, but it is stripping out all the useful

Re: kms

2009-10-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > As I mentioned on the intel-gfx list. For KMS on Intel you'll need to > boot with video=i915:modeset=1 > > Also, make sure you're using 0.93.4 or later of initramfs-tools. > > Having this more widely documented would probably be a good idea, as > upstream have just ripped

Re: Auto Backporting

2009-09-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frank Küster wrote: > For some teTeX (or older TeXLive?) packages, I've used a > "sarge-backport" (or whatever the stable version was) target in > debian/rules. It added a changelog entry with backport version number, > and it switched some patches and build-deps (in particular, poppler > wasn't a

Re: Bug#537110: ITP: libdap -- A C++ SDK contains an implementation of DAP 2.0 and 3.1, Client- and Server-side support classes and a prototype implementation of the AIS

2009-07-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Youhei SASAKI wrote: > Package: wnpp > Owner: Youhei SASAKI > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: libdap > Version : 3.8.2 > Upstream Author : The University of Rhode Island and The Massachusetts > Institute of Technology > * URL or Web page : http://opendap.org/download/libda

Re: ia32-libs transition

2009-07-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > ia32-wine is only available when ia32-apt-get is installed. WTF? Are you listening to yourself? Do you actually believe that it's okay to mess in such horrendous ways with the packaging system? -- Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Bug#532481: ITP: radsecproxy -- RADIUS protocol proxy supporting RadSec

2009-06-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis Package name: radsecproxy Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Stig Venaas URL : http://software.uninett.no/radsecproxy/ License : Dual BSD/GPL (without OpenSSL exception) Programming Lang: C

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-16 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Marco d'Itri wrote: > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by > prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone > /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it > (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). BTW, last month Len

Re: Bug#513606: ITP: freeswitch -- An open source telephony platform.

2009-01-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
There's #389591 and you might want to contact Phil Hands who has showed interest for this. You're also welcome to join the Debian VoIP team. Thanks, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Bug#510476: ITP: LinuxCallRouter - an ISDN based PBX for Linux

2009-01-02 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Dorchain wrote: > Package: lcr LinuxCallRouter - an ISDN based PBX for Linux > Version: 1.3 (20081124) > Upstream Author: Andreas Eversberg > URL: http://isdn.eversberg.eu/download/lcr-1.3/ > Licence: GPL > Description: > Formerly known as "PBX4Linux", Linux-Call-Router is not only a route

Re: Bug#510408: ITP: biew -- console hex viewer/editor with disassembler

2009-01-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Michel Loos wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michel Loos > > * Package name: biew > Version : 5.7.1 > Upstream Author : Nick Kurshev > * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/biew/ > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C > Description

Re: Results for General Resolution: Lenny and resolving DFSG violations

2008-12-28 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Anthony Towns wrote: > Anyway, despite something kinda close to advocacy for the FD option in > the second call for votes on d-d-a, FD lost convincingly to most of the > options on offer. So of any conclusions you might draw, the simplest, > safest and most easily justified seems to be "stop discus

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-04 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > The particular pass through NEW that has been used to demonstrate the > deficiency of NEW processing was necessitated by the rename > iceweasel-l10n-hi to iceweasel-l10n-hi-in introduced in the previous > upload (and processed in 3-4 days or so). This rename took place afte

Re: DFSG violations: non-free but no contrib

2008-11-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
David Given wrote: > One potential reason is that in most jurisdictions you are legally *not > allowed* to use custom wifi firmware. Consider that most wifi systems > are software radios and that the software is entirely capable of > exceeding all regulators' transmissions strength limits or subver

pkg-netfilter team (was: Re: Bug#502402: ITP: xtables-addons -- Extensions for iptables)

2008-10-29 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Max Kellermann wrote: >> What do you all think? > > +1 from me. We are already maintaining our packages in a (private) > subversion repository which we could (and should) move to Alioth. Of > course it's a good idea to have a bigger team, since I am an > unofficial Debian maintainer, and sometim

Re: Bug#502402: ITP: xtables-addons -- Extensions for iptables

2008-10-16 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Pierre, hi again, Pierre Chifflier wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Pierre Chifflier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Package name: xtables-addons > Version : 1.5.7 > Upstream Author : Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://jengelh.medozas.de/

Re: Bug#502305: ITP: ulogd2 -- The Netfilter Userspace Logging Daemon, version 2

2008-10-15 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Pierre Chifflier wrote: > Ulogd is already packaged in Debian, but I think ulogd2 should be proposed as > a separate package, because: > - they are completely different projects, supporting different targets (NFLOG) > or features (connection tracking) > - ulogd is still the stable daemon, for som

Re: DELAYED queue and upload hostname

2008-09-20 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Only problem is - if someone goes and uploads a NEW package there it > would get us in trouble, as we would distribute it before it got its > inspection if we really can do that. So if that ever happens it needs > some extra code to look if its valid to give links or not. Wel

Re: [RFC] How should rsyslog handle .0 logfiles from sysklogd

2008-09-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Michael Biebl wrote: > 2.) Try to log rotate the .0 files for the default Debian log files in > postinst. I feel a bit uneasy about this approach, for several reasons: > - It adds fairly reasonable complexity to the maintainer scripts, if you > want to consider all corner cases. > E.g. if you swit

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-04 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'm responsible for the DELAYED queue, which currently lives in my home > directory and is hard coded at least in the default dput configuration > (including lenny and stable), most likely also other personal > configurations. > > I've set up a DELAYED queue instance on ra

Re: Building with -msse

2008-04-26 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Russ Allbery wrote: However, a user mentioned that he thinks all chips that fall into the amd64 architecture have SSE and hence adding -msse would be safe for the amd64 build. Is that correct? And in general are there any guidelines about things like this? I assume that using -msse for the i38

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ian Jackson wrote: I apologise for boring everyone with this again. But it has been two more weeks and Guillem is still nowhere near finishing his artwork. There has also been no effort by Guillem or Raphael to negotiate with me; they have ignored my postings to debian-dpkg. If I was approached

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ian Jackson wrote: [4] Why not ask the Technical Committee to rule ? The TC has not shown great dynamism in recent months. I have tried quite hard as a TC member to get various questions that were put to the TC decided, and the results have not been encouraging. In any case, asking the TC abou

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-24 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Bastian Blank wrote: >>> 14 zaptel 295 >> Not really considered for inclusion by upstream, yet. > > Not possible to merge in the current state. I know, I'm comaintaining it :) It may be a good candidate (along with mISDN/vISDN) for Greg KH's team, however. >>> 12 kvm

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Philippe Cloutier wrote: >> > 4 ipw3945 897 >> Replaced by (free) iwlwifi which will be present in 2.6.24. >> > iwlwifi is "contrib", like ipw3945. iwlwifi needs non-free firmware, ipw3945 needs non-free firmware and non-free userspace daemon. The "free" above was main

Re: Out-of-tree kernel module popularity

2007-10-23 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Ben Hutchings wrote: > I didn't know that table existed! It seems like it would be useful to > aggregate statistics for out-of-tree kernel module packages by stripping > off the kernel version suffix. Here's what I came up with: OK, here's a preliminary analysis of your results. There are quite

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-10 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Robert Edmonds wrote: > Any modification to the tg3 driver to produce a GR 2006-004 compliant > driver would have to diverge from the kernel team's patch acceptance > guidelines[0] since upstream is intransigent[1] on making tg3 > firmware-free or firmware-optional. The kernel team does not appear

Re: Bug#446028: ITP: tg3dfsg -- firmware free Broadcom Tigon3 network driver

2007-10-09 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Robert Edmonds wrote: > This package provides the source code for the tg3dfsg kernel > module. Kernel source or headers are required to compile this module. > > This driver complies with GR 2006-004 and should support all Tigon3 > hardware except for 5701a0 chipsets. I intend to upload it shou

Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system

2007-10-08 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:41:21PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: >> Given the great abundance of revision control systems already packaged >> for Debian, what is the point of adding another? Especially when it is >> non-free. > > How about "people use it"? There's p

Re: pristine tarball generator

2007-10-03 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:15:44PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: >> BTW, the next release of pristine-tar will support generating pristine >> gz files too, so will fully support pristine .orig.tar.gz. Regenerating >> pristine gz files from small deltas is quite a lot trickier, and

Re: volatile.debian.org: Does Debian still support it?

2007-09-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Piotr Roszatycki wrote: > After 30th of September the timezone data for New Zealand will be not > correct (Bug#440258). The users who rely on Debian package will notice > that something goes wrong. Based on the description (and not the patch) it seems to me that this kind of change should be in the

Re: [RFH] Implementing "Homepage:" field support in lintian/linda

2007-09-22 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Christian Perrier wrote: > The latter should probably be quite conservative and only detect > something like: > > "^ +[Hh]ome *[Pp]age:.*" > > in the package description. /^\s+(web|home)\s*(site|page)\s*(:| at| is).*/i seems to catch more (5087 hits) with few false positives. Also, matching http

Re: [RFH] Implementing "Homepage:" field support in lintian/linda

2007-09-22 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Christian Perrier wrote: > The latter should probably be quite conservative and only detect > something like: > > "^ +[Hh]ome *[Pp]age:.*" > > in the package description. /^ (web|home)( *)?(site|page) *(:| at| is).*/i seems to catch more (1905 hits) Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-09-12, Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> >> You're not checking for copyright violations or for non-free stuff in >> all other packages. I obviously meant all other *existing* source packages

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-12 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Oh well, the kernel team just lost its trust, which means new uploads of > kernel-team packages dont get their old way of fasttracking in NEW, as I > now need to check all of their uploads for such cases. I'm not sure I find this helpful. You're not checking for copyright vi

Bug#436404: ITP: asterisk-addons -- Asterisk GPL-only plugins

2007-08-07 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asterisk-addons Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Digium Inc. (http://www.digium.com/) and others * URL : http://www.asterisk.org/ * License : GPL Programming L

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-05 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > To scare people away. But maybe the ability to log into mysql was > enough. No kidding, that's a great feature of the Description, it says > to every clever sysadmin: don't use me. Well, I don't know if you or me or Debian will use it but Fedora is going to switch to it a

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Sam Hocevar wrote: >Hello, I would like to gather comments about a proposal I have been > thinking about during the GPLv2/v3 and GPLv2/CDDL discussions. I have > finally written down what I have in mind here, and refined it with the > help of many people on IRC: > > http://wiki.debian.org

Re: /bin/sh diversions

2007-08-01 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > There are embedded environments where 80KB is a concern. We're not at > the level yet where we can reasonably support such environments, but > there are people who are trying to change that, and I don't think we > should make it harder for them by setting things up in a wa

Re: [Debian Installer] Experimental support for Serial ATA RAID (dmraid)

2007-07-19 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Frans Pop wrote: [1] To confuse the general public, this is also referred to as ATA RAID, BIOS RAID, fake RAID and software RAID, as well as a number of vendor specific terms such as "Intel Matrix Storage". Actually, ATA RAID is more appropriate since dmraid isn't limited to Serial ATA in any w

Bug#430622: ITP: dbeacon -- Multicast Beacon

2007-06-25 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: dbeacon Version : 0.3.9 Upstream Author : Hugo Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://fivebits.net/proj/dbeacon/ * License : GPLv2 Program

Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)

2006-10-30 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Matthew Garrett wrote: > Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> Bear in mind that the 64-bit kernel doesn't offer all the functionality >>> that the 32-bit one does. vm86 is the most obvious thing missing. >> and it seems a