Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files

2009-03-21 Thread Thomas Viehmann
nd the express clarification that GPL requires distributing SVG source with any pixel formats, I can assure you that if Debian is interested in credibly attempting to ensure that the stuff put on mirrors is legal to distribute someone has to look at every file in the tarballs. Kind regards T

Bug#518045: RFP: pywikipediabot -- Python wikipedia robot framework

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Authors: Various License: MIT (mostly) Language: Python Tools for maintenance of MediaWiki installations. This also contains parsers for wikipedia (et al) content. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> How about either matching stuff against the build logs or recompiling > I didn't have the resources to do this, but it's be great if someone could. If you have the means of recompil

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> Never use mktemp(). > > Args - I've read this and intended to use in both cases mkstemp - but then > just forgot this. I think just for reading files mktemp is fine. The > rationale is

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > >> Oh, and if you really care, be sure that it's a regular file (not a >> symlink pointing to something) owned by yourself before using it as a >> hint to kill your processes. > > Than

Re: mass bug filing for undefined sn?printf use

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
or recompiling with a compiler that actually fails when asked to compile a file that matches? That would seem to have potential for reducing the number of false positives. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann wrote: > Andreas Tille wrote: >> 2. Make the temp file save against symlink attacks. The question >> I have for this case which should probably be prefered is: How >> can I savely teach an independent script about the PIDs of a >> cra

Re: CVE-2008-5378: possible symlink attacks

2008-12-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
#x27;s best not to think about "file with a safe name", but about "safely created file". Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ssage. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
worth fixing if it's easily fixable, but I'd ask for input of the release team before filing. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help needed for #377468

2008-12-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
demonstrated in Debian over and over again and not an argument in itself. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ime. How about once per year? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
o the contribution is rehasing of the idea). To be honest, I'd prefer if Bastian applied his skills to helping a project I'm not a member of. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ntribute a lot!!! You should start this super-unstable today!!! When it works out later, Debian should integrate it as official repository! Do not delay starting it! No one else in Debian has your brains, so no one else can do this!!! Kind regard

Re: New ftpteam member

2008-12-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
German :-P Das ist etwas später im Auswahlverfahren. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
buggy when GTK+ 1.2 is removed. gtkglarea might as well have a maintainer as long as its around. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas Viehmann
number of packages needing to pass NEW, the main room for optimization lies elsewhere[1]. Kind regards T. 1. Last time I grepped for statistics, about 10% of completely NEW packages were rejected for deficiencies in licensing/copyright documentation. This has been a while, tho

Re: NEW processing

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas Viehmann
e things get thought while they shouldn't) rather than > trusting developers to do the right thing. It's similar to what happened > to the NM process. It's funny that you bring this up in the thread originiating with this specific example. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehm

Re: [php-maint] Bug#341420: marked as done (code in exts/dbase is not DFSG-free)

2008-11-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
took the trouble of looking at your package might be an idea if you want to set an example instead of just demanding politeness. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-11-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
's not used, though. Sorry if I should have done more than just dumping the ready-to-use php somewhere. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: #501774 - where should the library source go?

2008-11-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ackage", and > all FUTURE libraries which depend, in future, on the pyjamas compiler, > are to be installed. Well, the question I'd have is whether pyjamas really is stable enough to go into unstable. > can anyone come up with any good ideas? For the most part, you seem

Re: system users

2008-11-16 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s. Do you have some popular packages with a system user > starting with "debian-" in mind? I was thinking about popular amongst Debian packages, not in popular packages... tor has "debian-". Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: system users

2008-11-15 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s there some drawbacks with underscore? This has been discussed a couple of times, but IIRC without definitive conclusion. "Debian-" and "debian-" seem to be as prefixes as well. Maybe it is easiest to just go with something that is popular among existing packages you care ab

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-11-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s language-provided sort functions in most practical applications. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: can buildd logs be sorted (again)?

2008-10-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
that C->Perl->PHP with the last step being done by someone disliking PHP is not a good idea), I could ask Ryan to put http://buildd.debian.org/~tviehmann/build.php in the appropriate location. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi Steve, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:44:33AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote: >> Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> Every kernel upload changing the ABI goes through NEW. > >> The typical situation here is that code that has the same set of DFSG >> b

DFSG-violations and NEW and DFSG-violations and I would fix them, but...

2008-10-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
than everyone else. "Moral, das ist, wenn man moralisch ist, versteht Er." Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violatio ns are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?

2008-10-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
the RC bug list, my first thought is about my exit strategy before I am even able to start considering the bug at hand. My pet flamewar would be about quality in Debian and whether the DAM needs to designate some people as Developers who do not maintain packages, but I can restrain m

Re: debian-kernel (Supporting 2.6.27 in Lenny? - Long term support)

2008-10-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
and there is no use asking people to bug busy teams. Thanks. T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug sprint !

2008-10-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
and there could be conflicts in agreeing on who actually closed > a particular RC bug though. Hm. Maybe voting could resolve that... Personally, I think we should just do it for the fun. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Xen status in lenny?

2008-10-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> Next try: http://194.39.182.225/debian/xen/try4. > Hmm.. these packages are not available anymore? > URL changed? Your local Debian sid mirror, e.g. package xen-linux-system-2.6.26-1-xen-amd64. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.

Re: Test Debian : Release Goals, Point release, Foo-n-Half...

2008-10-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
s how to downgrade a package, it is not much of a problem to run Debian unstable on one's work machine. Linking to http://wiki.debian.org/TopicDebianDevel for users of unstable to check before updating might be good idea. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ --

Bug#500481: RFP: python-webkit -- python bindings for webkit

2008-09-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
) Description : python bindings for webkit The prospective maintainer would most likely want to join/work closely with the pkg-webkit group on alioth. Kind regards and thanks to the packager to be! T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ake sure that change makes it into lenny? In order for this to be a good idea, the debian known hosts should include people.d.o or we should have some other idea how to do that (like switch to using people-delayed for the command line and use ravel.d.o starting now). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Vi

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-08-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
to James first, that is pretty bad and James deserves an apology. On the other hand, once the package is up for adoption, fixing 14 bugs seems like a relatively strong application for its maintenance even if it's only by housekeeping and new upstream versions. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Vie

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
x27;s just me. In most of the cases they would seem to add little value to the ITP bug. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Project News - July 21st, 2008

2008-07-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tead of enhancing the documentation on the subject already in the developer's reference? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Policy or best practices for debug packages?

2008-07-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
stop now. :-) The developer's reference contains a section on debug packages[1], but does not cover (all of) your questions. As such it might be nice to add some of the findings of this thread there. Kind regards T. 1. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices

Re: Good communication with upstream is good idea

2008-07-20 Thread Thomas Viehmann
e.debian.org/~tviehmann/debian-pts.user.js or something similar. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#491156: ITP: postgresql-8.3-plr -- Procedural language interface between PostgreSQL 8.3 and R

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ncyclopedia of every bit of source that has ever been available on the net. If plr is unmaintained, it should not be released with lenny. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome, kde, xfce use non-policy main menu

2008-07-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
nt Debian to unnecessarily diverge from generic naming schemes or drop generic names that upstreams use, either. Suggestions of the "do we need all the WMs" variety may appear to point out less work-intensive ways but really just cover up that developing a good policy an

Re: Non-free question regarding upstream releasing different binary-only tarballs for different architectures

2008-06-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
On 2008-06-17 09:12:29.00 Martin Meredith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would an ftp-master be able to answer whether thats possible? (having 2 different source packages provide debs for the same source package, but different architectures) No, this does not work. Also, the proper fix (sort of ge

Re: Inconsistent archive

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ation, but if you have many, a lists.d.o bug or d-project might be better suited to discuss. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bits from the ftp team

2008-05-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
On 2008-05-30 10:32:00.00 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - We added some new and long-awaited pseudo packages. Speaking of which, can you please also do the right thing and give the Debian pseudo-packages list to the BTS admins, where this really belongs, so that this too can stop

Re: Priority Changes

2008-04-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
cular change was tracked in #477066. Most of the time, priority changes is not that useful information, so it is not useful to list them. The priority files themselves are available in the indices directory, so you could diff them yourself if you can be bothered. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann,

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2008-04-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Colin Watson wrote: I think it was my suggestion to Martin in the first place, so no, I don't have any objection. :-) I haven't been following the thread, though - has there been general consensus on this? I must say that the thread did not do much to convince me.[1] Kind regards T. 1. http:

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
er insisting much on the lesser lintian-indicated problems. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best practices for handling API (not ABI) breaks?

2008-03-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
some point, possibly very soon, bug the lintian maintainers to include a warning for depending on it (there is a list, but it is not automatically updated), - finally, when you think the time has come, file bugs. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ --

Re: Processing of .changes files by dak

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Russ Allbery wrote: > Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Assuming the e-mail address on keys is mailable is also a bit dodgy, >>> and which of the multiple identities on a key would one use? >> The one that is stored as

Processing of .changes files by dak

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
hecked that the signature is from a known uploader. When doing that, one could also introduce mailing the sponsor of an upload if the address used as Changed-By does not match any of the key UIDs. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

wxWidgets2.4

2008-01-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
y (which I don't think anyone is actually proposing) we should get serious about descreasing the number of reverse dependencies. Kind regards T. 1. http://wiki.debian.org/GetRidOfWxWindows2.4 -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Opinions needed: reporting lintian overrides

2008-01-03 Thread Thomas Viehmann
per invocation / argument? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dput uploads using HTTP/PUT and 15 seconds delays

2007-12-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
and -devel. Probably, a test upload account would facilitate the search for the problem. (Send that via private mail if you want, I did not try the [EMAIL PROTECTED] from your logs.) -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ [29/Dec/2007:19:22:44 +0100] "PUT /libaqbanking_3.0.1-2.dsc H

Re: Using sgid binaries to defend against LD_PRELOAD/ptrace()

2007-12-10 Thread Thomas Viehmann
t;doing things right", which I am not sure is the care here. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sheldon Hearn MIA?

2007-12-06 Thread Thomas Viehmann
debian.org/debian-mentors/2007/09/msg00481.html 2. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/10/msg00253.html -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ges. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ries.debian.org AKA ftp-master.debian.org back

2007-11-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
thout recalculating, e.g. why a package ended up in new, but can also contain ftpmaster-internal annotations. Then, I guess the interest in the extended new queue reports wasn't that great anyway. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mass bugs filing: bogus debian/watch files

2007-11-05 Thread Thomas Viehmann
es as is (e.g. [1]). Please find the information from DEHS nicely summarized on your QA Developer page. Kind regards Thomas 1. http://alioth.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/qa/mia.html -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: Orphaned packages with quite some users

2007-10-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
one until it is released? > It is actually my intention. Good. How about finding a web gallery program to remove from the archive in the meantime, there is album in non-free with only 22 recent popcon votes... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Bug#445008: ITP: lazygal -- Static web gallery generator

2007-10-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
in perl, but shouldn't we at least wait with this one until it is released? Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#444221: ITP: python-pysizer -- memory profiiler for Python

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pysizer Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Authors: Nick Smallbone * URL : http://pysizer.8325.org/ * License : BS

Re: Bug#443528: ITP: xmms-pulse -- Pulseaudio Output plugin for xmms

2007-09-22 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hi, Thomas GOIRAND wrote: > Description : Pulseaudio output plugin for xmms Last I heard the xmms maintainers asked for input on removing xmms and how to deal with the plugins already in the archive... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Mailadresse

2007-07-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
r to not bother the listmasters too much with it. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
o added value in leaving an effectively unmaintained version in the archive. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Thomas Viehmann
d that starting to use it now isn't a good idea. Also, the audio files can perfectly well be accessed with other programs, so users are not left without alternatives. If the maintainers think that shipping it with lenny is a bad idea, it should be removed. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehma

Re: Can we require build-arch/indep targets for lenny?

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Viehmann
. and then defaulting to make build be an option? Possible upgrade paths: 4) Make build-arch/indep recommended and have lintian issue a warning. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Bug#428185: ITP: evolution-python -- python bindings for libebook and libecal

2007-06-09 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Owner: Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: evolution-python Version : 0.0.1+svn-20070609 Upstream Authors: Conduit Project * URL : http://www.conduit-project.or

Re: samba crashing in debian etch

2007-04-12 Thread Thomas Viehmann
a the mail, you could also use "reportbug -p" and cut and paste its output. Best Thomas -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mirror of archive maintenance scripts

2007-01-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Anthony Towns wrote: > It is now; the katie -> dak rename broke it. Thanks! T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source code "forensic" practices

2007-01-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ings offer a huge amount of agony we best avoid. That said, if you feel like it, you could approach the author and potentially advocate better release practices to him. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to maintain packaging files for multiple distributions in the same tree?

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Viehmann
regards T. P.S.: Let me know if you need help with any packaging, I'd really like to see Debian packages of tinymail (he, and looking through my spam folder, maemo packages as well). -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Bug#406557: RFP: python-wavelets -- python extension implementing of wavelet transformations

2007-01-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist I'd be very thankful if the following could be packaged. I'd be able to sponsor non-DDs if the packages are good. * Package name: python-wavelets Version : 0.1.6 Upstream Author : Filip Wasilewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://chee

Re: Two questions on package quality

2006-12-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tar.gz, the 'upstream' version should indicate that. You'd probally want to check with the best packaging practices suggested by the Developer's Reference[1]. Kind regards T. 1. http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices.en.html#s-repackagedorigtarg

Re: Fwd: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?

2006-10-19 Thread Thomas Viehmann
bian-hints[1]? Kind regards T. 1. http://packages.debian.org/fortunes-debian-hints -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Public discussion time for Creative Commons 3.0 license draft coming to a close

2006-10-02 Thread Thomas Viehmann
signature > collection would make more sense, then send batches in a single email > to the list. Seems more polite that way. If you do, please count me in. Kind regards T. - -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Li

Re: Bug#387926: ITP: eaccelerator -- PHP opcode cacher and compilation optimizer

2006-09-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
>> so basically, what has to be done? they must just explain that they >> allow anyone to build their GPL software against php, is that it ? >> the situations changed in the sense that we are not tied because of >> the past anymore. The CVS seems to tell a quite different s

Re: Accepted lynx 2.8.5-2sarge2 (source i386)

2006-09-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
r bug, that would help people noticing and correcting the error. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is lack of UTF support an RC bug? [was: Bug#386299: ekg2: Plugin/program compilation option mismatch]

2006-09-07 Thread Thomas Viehmann
like a releasable state to me. I think looking at the issue with the criterium "the distribution better not have a lot of packages with this type of fault or it's a completly useless junk collection of packages" one can see a big red blinking RC bug sign for this specific bug (as op

seeking advice on device ownership

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas Viehmann
tware, e.g. pcscd from pcsc-lite seems to run as rood) via a provided udev script? - can somebody help me write/test this? (I've got the USB vendor/product ID)? Kind regards and thanks in advance T. -- Thomas Viehmann, <http://beamnet.de/tv/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
lready? As in: Follow what happens, you're responsible for any bug that you introduced with your NMU. You should probably use The Package Tracking System, Section 4.10 (PTS) to stay informed of the state of the package after your NMU. Cheers T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/

Re: package ownership in Debian

2006-07-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
whether something newer than the last upload is in unstable, check out the latest source based on sources list + package repository, etc.). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-07-28 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Marco d'Itri wrote: >> * xen integration > Everybody that matters is doing this. > BTW, where is this integration visible? > Do we have a VM provisioning system? Are you looking for something like xen-tools by Steve Kemp, Debian packages maintained by Radu Spineanu? C

Re: Bug#380173: ITP: deb822 -- Read and manipulate RFC822-like files (e.g. .dsc and .changes)

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
22 parsing and the added value seems marginal to the point where I'd not be looking for a module when I had a task to do that could use it. Additionally, shipping python modules without documentation seems a bad idea if you want it to be useful. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://

Re: buildd logs for experimental

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Drew Parsons wrote: > As I understand it, buildds (or is it a separate set of servers?) are > now autocompiling packages in experimental. Where are the logs for > these builds? http://experimental.ftbfs.de/ Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UN

Re: Two versions of pan in etch?

2006-07-27 Thread Thomas Viehmann
x27;s OK if you decide to ship a version with stable, but do ship great software and not just the version that is available at freeze time that sucks the least. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#379673: ITP: pybridge-common -- A free online bridge game. (common files)

2006-07-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

2006-07-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
David Weinehall wrote: > Well, if foo depends on foo-data, and foo-data depends on foo, I find > it really hard to see the point of splitting the two into distinctive > packages... Because libfoo7 bumps sonames and foo-data will have files in the same location. Kind regards T. -

Re: Why does doc packages need to contain gzipped files?

2006-06-26 Thread Thomas Viehmann
rence for kdvi is precisely because of that (and reverse search, but that seems to be more standard nowadays). Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas Viehmann
or somesuch)? Kind regards T. 1. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAdminFoo -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Thomas Viehmann
arting RAID device md3 ... 1/3 drives, failed The "Starting RAID devices..." could be put before the startup. I guess the gain I see is that on normal operation only one line is printed while providing more detailed and still legible information in case of a failure. Kind regards T.

Re: Uploading packages built against testing?

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag, 29. Mai 2006 21:16 schrieb Thomas Viehmann: >> Hendrik Sattler wrote: >>> No, but you could manually set all stuff in Depends to the needed >>> versions. That would also work for the buildds, I guess. >> And break at the ne

Re: Renaming a package

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Andreas Fester wrote: > Is this the correct approach? Anything I missed? I think the usual way is to provide the dummy binary package immediately from the new source package and file a bug for removal of the old source package. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.

Re: Uploading packages built against testing?

2006-05-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
es for this suggestion... Oh, if you insist: To be frank, maintainers having such ideas are bad enough, but you'd better have a good excuse for handing them out as advice. Kind regards T. 1. http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=openssl -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.n

Re: NEW queue backlog

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas Viehmann
g for the more > important stuff in the meanwhile, though. > > > Michael > -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: NEW queue backlog

2006-05-23 Thread Thomas Viehmann
stuff in the meanwhile, though. Are you sure that this isn't done? I had the impression that fixes for RC bugs that only are soname changes or something were processed a couple of days ago... Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: MIA Christoph Wegscheider?

2006-04-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
MJ Ray wrote: > Does anyone know the current status of maintainer Christoph Wegscheider? > Last maintainer uploads: > * qiv 2005-05-23 (sponsor Thomas Viehmann cc'd) I sponsored Justin Pryzby's qiv C++ transition NMU in January and haven't had any interaction with Chris

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-17 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ > Well, I won't try to convince you to prioritize the "new binary packages > from known source package" because last I heard (some 360 days ago), you > didn't need convincing. Assuming that those 40-some packages affected

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
source package" because last I heard (some 360 days ago), you didn't need convincing. Assuming that those 40-some packages affected are easier to process, it'd still be nice, though. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: NEW queue backing up again -- ftpmasters, any explanation or comment?

2006-03-13 Thread Thomas Viehmann
ally like to fix my RC bugs and sync with upstream at the same time but the latter would involve so-version changes. Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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