Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-29 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sune Vuorela wrote: > plasma-widgets-addons (microblog widget) OAuth support added upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242048 Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwqP1sACgkQXjXn6T

Re: cryptdisks(-early) initscripts, dependencies and loops

2010-06-04 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 C. Gatzemeier wrote: > The defined order in /etc/init/cryptdisks-udev.conf is simply "start on > block-device-added ID_FS_USAGE=crypto". Good, how does the next step work? For example, after cryptsetup ran, we found an LVM volume and must now run lvm

Re: cryptdisks(-early) initscripts, dependencies and loops

2010-06-04 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jonas Meurer wrote: > the problem is that loads of possible setups are possible, all > introducing different required initscript order. either another > initscript needs to be invoked before, or after, or between the > cryptdisks-early and cryptdi

Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-12 Thread Marcus Better
Package: general Severity: wishlist I have been plagued by long delays with an unresponsive laptop, waiting for it to swap in Eclipse for several minutes at a time, several times per day. This is a Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB of RAM, squeeze/sid, X.org, KDE and Eclipse. (4 GB ought to be enough for eve

Bug#579121: RFP: guice -- lightweight dependency injection framework for Java

2010-04-25 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: guice Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Google, Inc. * URL or Web page : http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ * License : Apache License 2.0 Description : lightweight dependency injection framework for Java Needed as d

Re: Bug#575953: ITP: gmock -- Google's framework for writing and using C++ mock classes

2010-04-03 Thread Marcus Better
Fredrik Hallenberg wrote: > * Package name: gmock > Description : Google's framework for writing and using C++ mock > classes This is a bad choice of package name, since gmock is also the name of a Groovy-based mocking framework: http://code.google.com/p/gmock/ Cheers, Marcus

Re: FOP: Objects for Formatting Objects ?

2010-01-27 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: >> >> > Perhaps that is because of technical, not legal, issues? More likely because Donald Knuth does not want the behaviour of TeX to change. Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-09 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 24, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> I am proposing to set net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 by default for new >> installations > Done, let's see what breaks. :-) All of Java, it seems [1]. I'm very surprised this breakage was known in advan

Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Goirand skrev: > Please do not start a 100 post thread in this ITP if this has been > discussed in the past (let's not loose time twice on a bad license). I > just would like to have a link here to the archive of the old discussion > about if on

Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Goirand skrev: >> Surely you are aware of the huge controversy around Ext JS licensing. > Hell, I missed it. Oh well :-) > This doesn't appear at all on the license.txt. Do you > think I could still package it for the non-free archive? I don

ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

2009-10-07 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is non-free. Please keep it out of Debian. Surely you are aware of the huge controversy around Ext JS licensing. There is no need to repeat that story here, let me just point to this page: http://www.extjs.com/company/dual.php Here they make c

Bug#546370: general: KDE provokes Xorg to take too much CPU and RAM

2009-09-14 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a lenny/sid/experimental amd64 system with KDE 4.3.1 and latest X.org, and it certainly looks like X.org is often taking an inordinate amount of CPU. The system becomes slow an unworkable after a few days, with X.org CPU usage climbing from the

Re: Bug#528061: ITP: obexd -- OBEX client and server

2009-05-13 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hendrik Sattler wrote: > And upcoming kdebluetooth4 uses solid BTW, is anyone working on that? (The RFP is #491580.) Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.m

Re: Bug#522914: ITP: agda -- a dependently typed functional programming language and proof assistant

2009-04-17 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Lane wrote: > Swedish logician Per Martin-Lf. That's Per Martin-Löf. Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknoiiwACgkQXjXn6TzcAQkTtwCaAl4DbHwHVUHwqcXC9pFf1YWW /zUAnR1n3HM8abbxGXEJHShGf1LUh

Re: Bug#519118: ITP: libcommons-java-java -- common java library used to support other developments

2009-03-10 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gregor herrmann wrote: > * Package name: libcommons-java-java > Version : 1.5.5 > Upstream Author : TiongHiang Lee > * URL : http://onemind-commons.sourceforge.net/commons-java/ The libcommons-foo-java package names usually

Re: Bug#519003: ITP: xca -- x509 Certification Authority management tool based on QT4

2009-03-09 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tino Keitel wrote: > * Package name: xca > Description : x509 Certification Authority management tool based on > QT4 Is there anything significant that distinguishes this from TinyCA? Cheers, Marcus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Bug#516488: RFH: kernel-patch-exec-shield -- protection against stack smashing and other attacks

2009-02-21 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Severity: normal This kernel patch provides exec-shield, a security feature for the Linux kernel on i386 (it is not relevant for x86_64). The patch is present in Fedora kernels, which is also the upstream maintainer. Since I hardly use i386 machines anymore, I need help with any of

Bug#514757: ITP: ivy -- dependency manager

2009-02-10 Thread Marcus Better
Package: wnpp Owner: Marcus Better Severity: wishlist * Package name: ivy Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Xavier Hanin Maarten Coene, Nicolas Lalevee, Gilles Scokart * URL or Web page : http://ant.apache.org * License : Apache License v2.0 Description : agile

Re: Bug#494928: ITP: sflphone -- SIP and IAX2 compatible VoIP phone

2008-08-13 Thread Marcus Better
Francois Marier wrote: > SFLphone is a SIP/IAX2 compatible softphone for Linux. The SFLphone > project's goal is to create a robust enterprise-class desktop phone. And how close is it to realising this goal? Because Debian has plenty of crappy SIP and IAX softphones that work half of the time in

Re: Bug#446656: ITP: libjbosscache1-java -- cache frequently accessed Java objects

2007-10-15 Thread Marcus Better
Torsten Werner wrote: > * Package name: libjbosscache1-java Are you aware of #386108 and the rest of the JBoss effort? Regards, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proposed new release goal: Dependency/file list predictability

2007-06-24 Thread Marcus Better
Matthew Johnson wrote: > Also, you should consider build systems which switch using the > alternatives system. Debian Java policy says that debian/rules must > specify the build system to use explicitly, but there are a number of > packages which don't. If you know of any such packages, please fil

Re: Bug#428877: ITP: callweaver -- Community-driven open source PBX software

2007-06-14 Thread Marcus Better
Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > CallWeaver is a community-driven vendor-independent cross-platform open > source PBX software project (formerly known as OpenPBX.org). It was > originally derived from Asterisk. Now it supports analog and digital > PSTN telephony, multi-protocol voice over IP telephon

Re: ITP: pysycache-- Educational game to teach children to move the mouse

2007-06-11 Thread Marcus Better
José L. Redrejo wrote: > The activities make children practice on clicking, double-clicking, drag > and drop, moving and identify the mouse buttons. Since children probably learn this by age five or so with or without help, perhaps the author should focus on making a similar tool for adults instea

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Marcus Better
Andreas Metzler wrote: >> I think so, see #397761. > I do not think so, since this would result in duplicat mail for all > packages with maintainer=mailinglist. That's a minor problem that is very easily solved with a filter rule in the MUA. Duplicates are not exactly rare, what with messages tha

Re: Group maintainance howto and role of uploaders

2007-05-18 Thread Marcus Better
Andreas Tille wrote: > Another question would be whether it would be reasonable if > Uploaders should be included in BTS mail in any case I think so, see #397761. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Frank Küster wrote: > Personally, I don't like branches very much. Nobody ever explained to > me a good receipe to handle them in the case where development proceeds > in both, and important fixes are copied from one to the other. I believe git handles that, it should work nicely in most cases.

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Magnus Holmgren wrote: > I have now. IIUC, it lets you group and name diffs vs. a particular state > of the source code, but the end result is a normal .diff.gz, meaning that > everyone else has to use stgit too to get all the benefits, right? Yes. People working on the same project team should us

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Frank Küster wrote: >> "The VCS can handle the changesets. Putting patches under VCS is silly!" > I don't agree. With patches in debian/patches, you can give names to > those files. With a VCS you can also name branches, or changesets (stgit). Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: svn-buildpackage etc., mergeWithUpstream, and dpatch/quilt/cdbs again

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Now, how do you combine these? Several people have thought: "The VCS > can handle the changesets. Putting patches under VCS is silly!" I fully agree. Unfortunately Subversion doesn't make it easy for you. You can keep your "patches" in different "feature branches", but it

Re: Building packages twice in a row

2007-05-16 Thread Marcus Better
Norbert Preining wrote: > Now at a second build time we have changes in the binary .gmo files > which cannot be represented. > > What is the preferred solution for such a case? I usually save upstream's generated files somewhere in debian/rules during build, and copy them back in the clean target

Re: krb5 transition: upgrading to krb5 1.6.1

2007-04-29 Thread Marcus Better
Russ Allbery wrote: > Correct. In general, you never want to have Kerberos keys in your KDC for > a service principal for enctypes that that service doesn't support. Is there an easy way to find out which enctypes a service supports? (And why does the poor admin have to worry about this at all?)

RFA: tikiwiki -- groupware and content management system

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus Better
retitle 370592 RFA: tikiwiki -- groupware and content management system thanks I am looking for someone to take over maintenance of Tikiwiki. The package works nicely and does not take much time to maintain. However I don't use it anymore, and also I'm a bit frustrated with the lack of progress

Re: Bug#420165: ITP: commons-configuration -- Java based library providing a generic configuration interface

2007-04-22 Thread Marcus Better
Torsten Werner wrote: > I call the binary package > libcommons-configuration-java but not the source package. This is one of the two conventions used by the Java packaging team (and IMHO the best option), cf. commons-logging and commons-daemon packages. The other common option is to name both sour

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Better
Christoph Berg wrote: > Note that you can subscribe additional packages to any maintainer > view. The GIS team does that: Is there a way to subscribe a mailing list to receive bug reports also, without having the mailing list in the Maintainer field? Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Best scheme for teams and Maintainer/Uploaders fields ?

2007-01-08 Thread Marcus Better
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > in the KDE Team we use: Maintainer , Uploaders responsible for the packages>. The list beeing [EMAIL PROTECTED] or > [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Java team uses the same method, but it has IMHO the huge drawback that "uploaders" sometimes stop paying attention to a package wit

Is Chris Anderson MIA?

2006-10-16 Thread Marcus Better
Hi, does anyone have information on the whereabouts of Chris Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, the maintainer of php-date? I'm trying to get the package updated because it's severely outdated, but I haven't received any responses on either bug reports or private e-mail. Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
martin f krafft wrote: > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your layout. Something like that could work here as well. > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > changelo

svn package maintenance

2006-07-23 Thread Marcus Better
Hello, I've recently started to use svn for package maintenance, both in order to enable team maintenance and because it's a great way to keep track of the code. Previously I used dpatch or quilt for the Debian changes. However with svn (or any other version control system) it really doesn't make

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-05-03 Thread Marcus Better
Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Is there a way to use fc-match to locate a Type1 font (pfb) and also its >> associated font metrics (the afm file)? > > I may be wrong, but as fontconfig was designed for Xft which doesn't > make use of the .afm file but only uses the .pfb directly, I think > fontconfig

Re: Using defoma for building package ?

2006-04-30 Thread Marcus Better
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Josselin Mouette wrote: > How about using fontconfig ? Even without using the API you can use it > to look for a font: > $ fc-match --verbose sans | awk '$1=="file:"' > file: "/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/D/DejaVu-Sans.ttf"(s) Is there a way t

Re: TrueType fonts packages maintenance team proposal

2006-02-20 Thread Marcus Better
Christian Perrier wrote: > I have voluntarily limited the scope of the project to TTF fonts, > which become more an more popular. Perhaps the PostScript fonts in Debian could use some attention as well. I've been trying to package a very simple PHP library which in the upstream version includes co