Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-05 Thread Julien BLACHE
his point in time, a tool such as dpkg-buildflags cannot ignore the existence of non-gcc compilers. Taking care of that now will save quite some time further down the line. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.or

Re: Hardening build flags release goal

2011-09-05 Thread Julien BLACHE
;s the story with regard to non-gcc compilers? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: FA1E 5292 GPG Fingerprint : CC1A 2FE4 76FE 444A CD23 A5CD 26E9 8AEA FA1E 5292 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dev

Re: glibc: causes segfault in Xorg

2011-05-04 Thread Julien BLACHE
on the processors they've been written for! JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-de

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Hi, > Except zeroconf isn't routed so to be able to exploit it you need to be > on the same physical segment? mDNS traffic can actually be relayed, but this requires setting up a relay daemon on the gateway(s). Quite useful when done properly. JB. -- Ju

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: Hi, > Because I work in a untrusted work place and home network (public > networks, wifi...) I whish to purge zeroconf functionnality. Looks like you want a firewall. Just sayin'. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public k

Re: New libgphoto2 in sid

2011-02-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
st of what to watch out for. From the changelog of the package currently in experimental, I don't expect any breakage. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3

Re: Why is help so hard to find?

2011-01-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
> And KDE 4 is a well known and very old and very stale joke. Fun > at parties, maybe, but not really appropriate for the workplace. KDE4 is crap, world+dog know that. Use GNOME, XFCE or whatever. If you want KDE3 in Debian, then put your money where your mouth is and come maintain it. J

Re: For those who care about their packages in Debian

2010-08-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
ion that isn't needed for Squeeze and won't make it into Squeeze. You're just making everybody else's life harder by doing this. If you can't refrain from uploading, at least upload to experimental until Squeeze is out. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Dev

Re: doc-base is hugely unloved; bug mass-filing needed?

2010-08-07 Thread Julien BLACHE
Ian Zimmerman wrote: Hi, > How do maintainers feel about that? Right now, frozen, I guess ;) JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4

Re: Problem with gfortran and pkg-config

2010-07-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
mod files? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
over, it'd be consistent with having chmod and chown in /bin. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Moving ACL utilities to /bin?

2010-07-22 Thread Julien BLACHE
e ACL utilities to /bin, alongside their traditional UNIX counterparts? Note that libacl is already installed in /lib. If not, I'll file a bug against the acl package asking for the utilities to be moved to /bin. Thanks, JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public ke

Bug#587958: ITP: forked-daapd -- media server with support for RSP, DAAP, DACP and AirTunes

2010-07-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE * Package name: forked-daapd Version : 0.11 (git snapshot) Upstream Author : Julien BLACHE * URL : http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jblache/forked-daapd.git * License : GPL + BSD Programming Lang: C

Re: Bindv6only once again

2010-06-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
not exactly work well together (read: not at all). Do you know anything about that? I've run into this myself and am forced to use Sun's JDK in this case. In case you'd like to check it out, this is with OpenBravo POS using PostgreSQL. The database code just doesn't work at all w

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
> custom kernels (which are all initrd-free). > >> No problems to report on amd64 either, with or without an initrd. Yes indeed. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerpr

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
all initrd-free). No problems to report on amd64 either, with or without an initrd. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 --

Re: Too much disruptive NMUs

2010-05-22 Thread Julien BLACHE
age is effectively not maintained anymore, it's up to the MIA team to investigate and eventually decide to orphan the package. This kind of NMUs don't help; they just help the unmaintained stuff fly below the MIA radar longer. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > I expect this to be of particular interest when we'll have VCS-powered > source formats (say "3.0 (git2quilt)") that generate source packages that > are plain "3.0 (quilt)" based on the git repository information. This is becoming crazy

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
kage or a 3.0 or later package missing debian/source for whatever reason. FWIW I think debian/source/format sucks big time and its content should be moved to debian/control. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org&

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
a 1.0 source package. From there on, in the best case it fails right away but it can also lead to silently building packages without applying patches. Now, let's say there's a security patch in the pile, and this becomes a problem. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Develop

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
r that dak is very Debian-specific and using it outside Debian without replicating the Debian infrastructure and workflow requires a lot of work and patching. Put another way, dak may not be the tool you're looking for in the first place. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Devel

Re: About new source formats for packages without patches

2010-03-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
Benjamin Drung wrote: Hi, > Why is there no dak and wanna-build package? Are there plans to create > such packages? Have you ever tried to install dak? If you have, then the answer should be obvious to you. If you haven't, try it someday, and you'll understand. JB. --

Re: German Debian

2010-03-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
lish - IME. > I used to take a look at Debian's translations of my own package's > Debconf templates, but nowadays I just treat them as just another > language that I don't speak. This approach saves me a lot of grief. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Develope

Re: Bug#573630: ITP: mule -- Java integration and communication platform

2010-03-13 Thread Julien BLACHE
like "mule-esb" would be a better name for the package; it would also help avoid confusion with the MULE stuff related to (X)Emacs. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerpr

Re: Proposed mass prototypejs bug filing for multiple security issues

2009-10-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael S Gilbert wrote: > - mt-daapd (embed) Not shipped in the resulting binary package. See Depends:. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3

Re: dropping support for kernels < 2.6.22

2009-10-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: Hi Marco, > libsane maintainer: you can now remove the rules related to > SUBSYSTEM=="usb_device" (old style /dev/bus/usb/). Thanks, will do. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available o

Re: DeviceKit and /usr

2009-09-06 Thread Julien BLACHE
Hendrik Sattler wrote: >> (I'll do you one better, though -- system-config-printer upstream wants to >> install /lib/udev/udev-configure-printer, which pulls in the entire libcups >> stack. Sigh...) > > *sigh* I agree. Has the world gone mad? The desktop world,

Re: Serious problem with geoip - databases could not be build from source

2009-08-25 Thread Julien BLACHE
that in Debian (and other distros will be free to pick it up). JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Release goal: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2009-08-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
easier to remove the .la files if we have a coordinated effort and it'll greatly reduce the potential for breakages. I plan to take a look at what's needed to remove the .la files in my packages RSN, and it looks painful from where I stand right now. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian &

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
ir kfreebsd counterparts) and it can be built from i386, amd64 or kfreebsd-amd64 (not kfreebsd-i386, for it lacks a biarch compiler). JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 "Squeeze" release goals

2009-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - do we have an estimate of whether architectures for which we often > upload compiled packages (amd64/i386) have enough buildd power to > cope with the load increase? That, and buildd admin resources for log processing/signing. JB. -- Julien BLACHE

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-19 Thread Julien BLACHE
or. No doubt about that. Heck, we still have people that do not use lintian. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 --

Re: The wider implications of stuffing the NEW queue with issues it was not designed for.

2009-07-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Charles Plessy wrote: Hi, > Automatic rejection of packages with errors not justified by overrides is of And what do you do with unjustified overrides? Or can I just override every lintian test and upload my totally broken package? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux De

Re: Conflicting assignment of privileged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
> report of a bug in the parsing of that file, failing with the current > content. > > Is this issue fixed in Debian? Let's ask the glibc folks. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5

Re: Conflicting assignment of privileged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
bug against libc6. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot, once again

2009-07-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
Gernot Salzer wrote: Hi, > What is currently the expert way to avoid/handle such port conflicts > in Debian? /etc/bindresvport.blacklist JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fi

Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"

2009-06-11 Thread Julien BLACHE
ive provides them, and this would get I'm sorry but that doesn't fly. Serious people will do their own assessment because they can't risk relying on what they get from a bunch of geeks they know nothing about. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer

Re: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC"

2009-05-06 Thread Julien BLACHE
n placed on our libc maintainers due to glibc upstream not giving a crap about most of the architectures we support. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD

Re: Should we still purge GConf schemas from the old directory?

2009-04-26 Thread Julien BLACHE
ss I knowingly rm -rf /etc/gconf/schemas. Not nice. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to de

Re: Bug#524896: general: Home directory pollution

2009-04-20 Thread Julien BLACHE
ectories. So this package may be part of the problem, but it's only one part of the problem. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4

Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
hat if you are reusing code, you have to do your own assessment anyway. Of course you can decide to trust debian/copyright, but there's no guarantee and you're taking the risk. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://ww

Re: group nvram

2009-03-19 Thread Julien BLACHE
ner group, or make the device saned:scanner. USB and SCSI scanners are handled the same way. So to reiterate what I wrote already, if you want to get rid of that in the rules shipped with udev, that's fine by me; libsane will take care of it, it'll be in the next upstream release anyway. JB

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
t can be verified pretty easily, if the scanner uses SCSI commands (or encapsulation) on its USB interface, you can bet the FireWire interface just does SCSI. I wish I had time to try that out when I had access to an A3 Epson scanner with USB & FireWire. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian &a

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
tudent ? Marco is specifically referring to the generic SCSI scanners support in the basic udev rules. That can be migrated to libsane. The scanner group is not going away anytime soon. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org&

Re: group nvram

2009-03-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
, high-speed scanners are SCSI. Some have a USB interface too, but it's slower. You can pull that from udev if you wish, as support for SCSI scanners has been added upstream to the udev rules and I can backport that to unstable. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer -

Re: the files in /etc/modprobe.d/

2009-03-04 Thread Julien BLACHE
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: Hi, > etc/modprobe.d/libsane libs/libsane Removed in 1.0.19-26. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 9

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Raphael Hertzog wrote: Hi, >> debian/shlibs.local should help for that. > > Except symbols files have priority over shlibs and there's no > symbols.local. I sense a lack of flexibility in this symbols file feature, hmm. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Dev

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
onstructed run a sed script on symbols and shlibs. debian/shlibs.local should help for that. JB. -- Julien BLACHE | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer| <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
my previous mails I was simplifying > a bit) except for libkrb4.so.2. I guessed that looking at the various packages :) JB. -- Julien BLACHE | Debian, because code matters more Debian & GNU/Linux Developer| <http://www.debian.org> Public key available on <htt

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
o get the affects of building with krb4 > disabled for daemons and utilities. Doing two build passes will be Oh, OK. That doesn't necessarily have to be done when introducing libkrb5-3, but that's entirely your call of course. > easy given my package structure and the package doe

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
ate your answer to whether the alternatives approach would work > to help sanity check my understanding in this space. Alternatives are supported in the shlibs, but I'd worry about the upgrade path. In particular, you'd also need to version the dependencies, and I can't remem

Re: Transition: krb5 to drop Kerberos IV (libkrb53 restructuring)

2009-02-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
ibkrb4-? and libkrb53 (add a conflict on libkrb53 in libkrb5-3 to force the removal?). That should ease things quite a bit, especially given the number of rdeps... JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5

Re: Possible MBF due to DBus security issue

2009-01-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
Matthew Johnson wrote: Hi, > Julien BLACHE >pommed Fixed upstream in (soon to be released) 1.25, will go in unstable and I plan to get it into Lenny if the tightened DBus goes in Lenny too. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key availabl

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Adeodato Simó wrote: Hi, > Julien BLACHE >unpaper Patch sent. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 --

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Banck wrote: > Like it or not, messages to d-d-a are frequently forwarded verbatim to > LWN and other major IT-centered news sources. This happen much less Pretty much everything and anything ends up there, so that's hardly a criterion for relevance or whatever. JB.

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
ings have been written about d-d-a and its purpose after Joss' post, here and elsewhere, mistaking d-d-a for d-a. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
rld actually appear in debian-announce; debian-devel-announce is a developer list. Check the descriptions for both lists on lists.debian.org. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerpri

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
the kind of RC bugs we're seeing right now before a release (at that point any RC bugs of these kinds that aren't fixed are either tricky or not being taken care of properly). Also most FTBFS are not reported by users. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Publ

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
esktop > users. Except during freeze times, I find unstable to be much more > usable, and keep testing for (non-production) servers. Agreed. > However it is important to keep a large testing userbase, since > developers don’t (at least, they aren’t supposed to) use it. Some bugs Ditto

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
ce bugs silently make it to testing. Being stricter wrt testing migration is hardly going to help. What will help is having more people actually use unstable so bugs are uncovered before they hit testing. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Julien BLACHE
as people occasionally do. BTW, that "community" thing is really overrated and totally overinflated these days. Everybody refers to the "community" all the time for everything. It doesn't mean anything anymore. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Develope

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-15 Thread Julien BLACHE
cement <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/07/msg7.html> that is linked under the "Lenny frozen" title. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerpri

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-06 Thread Julien BLACHE
ly works on i386. You missed the word "frontend" in the above. gsnes9x is a simple frontend for snes9x-x. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerpri

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Julien BLACHE
as I'm concerned. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#500386: ITP: libcam -- device-independent image acquisition and processing API

2008-09-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Albert Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > * Package name: libcam kFreeBSD has libcam0 and libcam-dev built from the freebsd-libs source. There's a potential for troubles here, unless your libcam is a linux-only package. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux D

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? > > If you are unsure of this and have to ask, you can look it up in the > changelog, maybe. I'm XSane's maintainer, in case you missed that. JB. -- Julien BLACHE

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one > other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, > namely xsane. The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? JB. -- Julien

Re: nut package freeze exception request (dependency based boot)

2008-09-17 Thread Julien BLACHE
"Anton Martchukov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Changhe insserv to not count symlinks at all (do not know about > possible affects about it) Rather make insserv ignore symlinks pointing to a file in the same directory. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU

Re: Is it a "user error" to use lilo?

2008-08-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
reason why the LILO and GRUB packages should conflict. I want to use LILO on my machine because GRUB fails miserably, yet I need GRUB to generate a GRUB boot-floppy. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://ww

Re: how to split architecture dependent data files into separate package

2008-05-06 Thread Julien BLACHE
tral. So is it okay to make these two packages Arch:all? Yes. > At last, Is there any way to specify the package dependency by architecture? Use a substitution variable in debian/control and determine the correct value in debian/rules before calling dh_gencontrol. JB. -- Julien BLACHE

Re: dpkg triggers, dpkg hijack

2008-03-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
Faidon Liambotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your position, I'd probably be afraid of receiving the "Joerg > Schilling award". The "Sven Luther award" may be more appropriate; time will tell. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Devel

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
ackages waiting for testing migration due to the specific package being considered is way more pertinent than the sole age of the package in the buildd queue. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> -

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
the buildds are impacted by real technical problems that take time and effort to get fixed. It's not like it's a manpower problem in replacing a broken disk or something alike. >> Stop whining. > C'est celui qui le dit qui l'est. What do you expect when posting such

Re: Buildd backlog and testing transition.

2008-03-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
y is using it. He doesn't have to use unstable. He can use pinning for this specific package. Stop whining. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint :

Re: some packges are waiting for i386 build

2008-01-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
er a special case among our supported architectures. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 --

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-28 Thread Julien BLACHE
Vincent Danjean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Julien BLACHE wrote: >> Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I think we need a change in policy for handling cases where free >>> software requires free software in order to compile which is

Re: Packaging a library that requires cross-compiled code

2007-09-27 Thread Julien BLACHE
of the archive. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: virtualbox-ose: package hijack?

2007-09-05 Thread Julien BLACHE
Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Are we talking about the same upstream here? > > i did answer to this question to michael in private (nda reasons). Please post this explanation to -private. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL P

Bug#440082: ITP: arcload -- bootloader for SGI/ARCS machines

2007-08-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: arcload Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Stanislaw Skowronek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/ARCLoad * License : GPL Program

Re: GTK1 Apps

2007-08-13 Thread Julien BLACHE
t more work to port it to GTK2/GNOME2, depending on the widgets it needs... JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > wmbubble 437425 > wmcliphist 437433 > wmclockmon 437442 > wmfishtime 437429 > wmmaiload 437444 > wmressel 437430 > wmusic Remote control dockapp for XMMS, will go away with XMMS. I've removed it from the wi

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
at some of the low hanging fruits, is there a usertag that can be used to track GTK2 patches in the BTS ? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79

Re: Considerations for GTK1 removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
ete, IIRC ? > Contrary to my own preconceptions, I'd say that the idea of removing > Gtk1 is dead-in-the-water. > :-( And there are still some useful applications in the list... JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key availa

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
meone > high up in the project directly requested your presence for debugging. Can't be worse than -devel ;) JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
nd I provided the requested information already. I never complained about audacious not being XMMS, there's no special XMMS feature that I miss in audacious. Now if only it'd stop segfaulting in under 2 minutes, that would render it usable. Now, will you please go fix your bugs ? T

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-12 Thread Julien BLACHE
1.3.2-4Small and fast audio player which supports l I propose you STFU and go fix your bugs. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-10 Thread Julien BLACHE
s most certainly not the least useful of the lot. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-07 Thread Julien BLACHE
gt; to the version from unstable. It is quite usable. I'm running unstable on all my desktops. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 7

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-08-07 Thread Julien BLACHE
it's buggy. Way more buggy than xmms. Random segfaults during playback, random segfaults while scrolling the playlist; can't have it running for more than 2 minutes. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
his kind of stupid things. And I'd really like it if it could stay that way: use aptitude if you want your Recommends installed by default, and leave apt-get alone for the folks who like its current behaviour. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
itude. Now, from the Debian users I know around me, I can tell you that none of them like aptitude, and they especially dislike the "install recommends by default" so-called "feature". JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pu

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
apt-get" than to "Debian aptitude". Way to not read (or is that not understand ?) what I wrote :) Hint: "recent". JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-02 Thread Julien BLACHE
conversations they have on IRC while trying to find > help, etc... Most (if not all) of the recent docs I've come to read mentionned aptitude rather than apt-get. If documentation is the only problem, then there's no problem. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Develop

Re: Installation of Recommends by default on October 1st

2007-08-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
mended packages to the list all by itself, in this case. I'd really like it if we could keep apt-get as an advanced user tool; aptitude can be used in all the other cases. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on

Bug#435390: ITP: wmauda -- remote-control dockapp for Audacious

2007-07-31 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wmauda Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Michael Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://dockapps.org/file.php/id/330 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C

Bug#420564: ITP: python-asterisk -- Asterisk Manager API interface module for Python

2007-04-23 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-asterisk Version : 0.1a3+r160 Upstream Author : David M. Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://py-asterisk.berlios.de/py-asterisk.php * License

Bug#413022: ITP: oflib -- OpenFirmware device-tree parsing library

2007-03-01 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: oflib Version : git snapshot of the day Upstream Author : Alastair Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://git.sipsolutions.net/of-lib.git/ * License : GPL

Re: Bug#412235: ITP: transfermii -- mii transfer program

2007-02-24 Thread Julien BLACHE
the wiimotes. At first I thought it was network-related. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 -

Re: Explications needed...

2006-12-29 Thread Julien BLACHE
ected one way or another to the said buildd, which must be powered up and booted" While we're at it ... unfortunately common sense isn't exactly common anymore these days. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Public key available on

Bug#402280: ITP: mbpeventd -- Apple MacBook Pro hotkeys event handler

2006-12-09 Thread Julien BLACHE
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mbpeventd Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://technologeek.org/projects/mbpeventd/ (soon) * License : GPL Prog

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