Bug#472095: ITP: libtie-dbi-perl -- Perl module to tie hashes to relational databases

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jose Parrella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtie-dbi-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Lincoln Stein, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~lds/Tie-DBI-1.02/ * License : GPL/Artistic Programming L

Bug#472099: ITP: libcoveb -- cache oblivious van Emde Boas stratified tree optimized for 32-bit integers

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcoveb Version : 1.0.3 Upstream Author : Rudi Cilibrasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.complearn.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description :

Can our institute become Debian Certified

Hi Greetings from Jobs4Jaipur.com!!! First of we would like to introduce ourselves as a company based in Jaipur, India and working aggressively in the field software development. One of under development venture is to start a computer education training institute, which will be initially launc

RFA: logwatch -- log analyser with nice output written in Perl

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I request an adopter for the logwatch package. I won't have enough time to make logwatch ready for lenny. The biggest issue in logwatch is that upstream has not really been aware of the need of proper copyright statements[1]. I can't resolve that in time for lenny.

RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

(Please CC me on your reply) Having recently deleted my /usr/lib by mistake (and gone through the pain of reinstalling all of my packages), I wrote a little Perl script which I have now aliased to "rm" in my .bashrc. Basically, the wrapper (see attached file) has a blacklist which contains direct

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008, Francois Marier wrote: > P.S. I realize that 'rm' is a low-level command which should do what it's > told, but the reality is that a lot of people use it directly on a daily > basis and can accidently hose their system. I don't want to implement a > "command-line trashcan", b

where to register TeX related software with doc-base?

Sorry if this has been answered before, but looking at section 2.3.3 of the doc-base manual (version 0.8.10) I cannot find a section TeX. If memory serves me right we used to have a section "tex", at least I used to register the docs of some my TeX-related packages there :-) Has this section been r

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

Hi, On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 22:16 +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > Basically, the wrapper (see attached file) has a blacklist which > contains > directories like /usr/lib, /home, /etc and removes those before > passing its > arguments to the real 'rm' command. While I'm sorry for you having to reins

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 05:12:50AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 22:16 +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > > Basically, the wrapper (see attached file) has a blacklist which > > contains > > directories like /usr/lib, /home, /etc and removes those before > > passing its > > argu

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 05:12:50AM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 22:16 +1300, Francois Marier wrote: > > Basically, the wrapper (see attached file) has a blacklist which > > contains > > directories like /usr/lib, /home, /etc and removes those before > > passing its

Re: Can our institute become Debian Certified

On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:34 +0530, Abhimanyu Chauhan wrote: > Hi > > Greetings from Jobs4Jaipur.com!!! > > First of we would like to introduce ourselves as a company based in > Jaipur, India and working aggressively in the field software > development. One of under development venture is to star

Bug#472182: ITP: mother -- Mother is an Object Relational Mapper with strong introspection

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: mother Version: 0.6.4-r4 Upstream Author: Federico Tomassini aka Efphe URL: http://www.dbmother.org/ License: BSD Description: Mother is a Python module that hides

Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

Dear all, well, the subject line allready asks the question. Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide the dependency on pkg-conf

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 14:09:09 +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and > uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. > > Now is it the foo package's or the libbar-dev package's duty to provide > the dependency

Re: Should -dev packages providing .pc files depend on pkg-config?

This one time, at band camp, Fabian Greffrath said: > Dear all, > > well, the subject line allready asks the question. > > Consider there's a package foo which is built against libbar-dev and > uses pkg-config to obtain the necessary CFLAGS and LIBS for libbar. > > Now is it the foo package's or

Bug#62878: Original and Still the Best

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Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

Hello Steve, Am 2008-03-16 23:59:52, schrieb Steve McIntyre: > 1. Is it worth making full sets of CDs at all? Can we rely on people > having a net connection or being able to use DVDs if they want > *everything*? CD's are maybe not usefull in this size... Maybe only the first 8. > 2.

Re: Can our institute become Debian Certified

Hi ,Abhimanyu, As per my knowledge there is no as such course which will call "Debian Certified Engineer'. Yes but any way you can help with contributing to Debian as a maintainer/developer and you can motivate other people to contribute the same. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Abhimanyu Cha

What to do with old configs

Hi there. I create package A version 1. It provides config file /etc/A/X. In version 2 there are no more /etc/A/X. If version 2 see /etc/A/X it will work wrong. But usual from A=1 to A=2 upgrade will leave /etc/A/X. What can I do in such situation? Can I remove /etc/A/X in preinst of version 2?

Re: What to do with old configs

* Alexander GQ Gerasiov [Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:04:38 +0300]: > Hi there. Hello Alexander. Check . -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org Bet

Re: What to do with old configs

На Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:09:47 +0100 Adeodato Simó <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> записано: > * Alexander GQ Gerasiov [Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:04:38 +0300]: > > > Hi there. > > Hello Alexander. Check . Oh, thanks. That's exactly what I was interested in. -- Best re

Information about smart card tokens (product links for US residents)

Hi, Firstly, since it is also being sent to debian-devel nothing in this mail is private. I have been wanting to investigate using a smart card to put my gpg subkeys, but most of the information about Linux support is scattered, and seems to be skewed towards the FSFE's fellows

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

Hi, On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not > worth a > package. It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, as > removing > files as root means you mess with system directories, right? Yes, that's what

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Francois Marier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having recently deleted my /usr/lib by mistake (and gone through the pain of > reinstalling all of my packages), I wrote a little Perl script which I have > now aliased to "rm" in my .bashrc. At one point I set my sy

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

William Pitcock wrote: Hi, On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not worth a package. It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, as removing files as root means you mess with system directories, right?

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:50:32 -0500, William Pitcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, > On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not >> worth a package. It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, >> as removi

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

William wrote: > >On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 13:51 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: >> To get those Vistaesque questions, "alias rm='rm -i'" is surely not >> worth a >> package. It's slightly larger in scope, but only slightly, as >> removing >> files as root means you mess with system directories, right?

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

On 2008-03-16 23:59:52 (+), Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Please note Reply-To: to debian-cd... ] > > Hi folks, > > It's time for me to ask the question again - what CDs and DVDs will we > find useful enough that we should make them for lenny? The reason I'm > asking is that w

Bug#368383: Go where no man has ventured

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Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

For the nth time, I have a package that dpkg is unable to remove because it tries to stop a service that either is already stopped (I didn't want it) or couldn't start at all. In the former case, the fix seems simple: start the service and remove the package. But sometimes starting the service may

Re: Service stopping in prerm considered harmful

Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For the nth time, I have a package that dpkg is unable to remove because > it tries to stop a service that either is already stopped (I didn't want > it) or couldn't start at all. In the former case, the fix seems simple: > start the service and remove

Bug#472281: ITP: libtommath -- a number theoretic multiple-precision integer library

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Joseph Nahmias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libtommath Version : 0.39 Upstream Author : Tom St Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://math.libtomcrypt.com/ * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Descrip

Re: RFC: preventing accidental deletion of system directories

Hi, On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 00:08 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Christ, no. If you want Fedora you know where to find it. I was being sarcastic. But it's certaintly better than making some script the default. Optimally no change to rm is best unless you opt in. William signature.asc Descriptio