Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:36PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: >> In some cases, exim still looks up its IP address when a listening >> daemon starts up. This is why the Debian installer configures >> 127.0.1.1 (not 127.0.0.1) for the local hostname on installation, >> y

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:13:36 +0600, "Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> This being said, I consider the entire 127.0.1.1 business a horrible >> hack which is one of the most ugly things I have ever seen. Do we have >> a chance to implement this in a more cleaner

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:50:17 +0200, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:41:26PM +0200, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Exim has the habit of trying to find out about its host names and IP >> addresses when it starts up. This has, in the past, been an issue fo

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:09:27 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080411 16:41]: >> To avoid the extra DNS lookups, the Exim packages have a Debconf >> option to configure exim for "minimal DNS usage", which hardcodes the >> hostname into Exim's co

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:48:19 + (UTC), Robert Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, there is a much better way: do not perform name resolution to >determine the host's FQDN. It is wrong. This is what exim does to determine the local host name: |This variable contains the value set by primar

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080412 10:30]: > >I think the main problem is that Debian is by default setting up those > >ipv6 stuff into the interface even when you are in an pure ipv4 > >environment. That way exim4 cannot do anything to avoid ipv6 stuff > >and evil things like this can happen

Re: [pkg-boost-devel] Bug#473752: Boost 1.35 has been released

2008-04-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joshua, On Saturday 12 April 2008 03:02, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > How close /are/ we to a freeze? Please send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], thanks. Current status of the release: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg2.html Timeline for the release: http://lists.de

Re: triggers wishlist

2008-04-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 04:25:15PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Things I want to see use triggers, in approximate priority order: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=133917 (man-db) can at long last be fixed with a trigger. I had a tested patch for this a little while back, which I'll du

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080412 10:42]: > [...] Thankfully, gethostbyname2 is > used in exim's source code only twice (with one of the occurrences > being inside an if( primary_hostname == NULL ) which doesn't apply if > primary_hostname is set in configuration, which is the case if exim i

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "Bernhard R. Link" | * Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080412 10:30]: | > >I think the main problem is that Debian is by default setting up those | > >ipv6 stuff into the interface even when you are in an pure ipv4 | > >environment. That way exim4 cannot do anything to avoid ipv6 stuff | > >and

Re: python-sphinx or sphinx?

2008-04-12 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
Hi, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I'm going to package tool called Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/) - > documentation generator for Python projects. > > In ITP (#474782) I chose package name to be 'python-sphinx', however > then the package will be thought as containing just python mo

Bug#475711: ITP: amazing -- An amazing widget manager for an awesome window manager

2008-04-12 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: amazing Version : git Upstream Author : Dag Odenhall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://amazing.rubyforge.org * License : Academic Free License version 3.0 Programming La

Bug#475715: ITP: plexus-compiler-javac -- Interface to javac compiler for Plexus

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-compiler-javac Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : Codehaus developers. * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org/ * License : MIT / Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Descri

Bug#475719: ITP: robotfactory -- Help Pedro to build robots in his factory (game)

2008-04-12 Thread Juanjo Conti
Package: wnpp Version: N/A Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name : robotfactory Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : 10 Roboticists from Santa Fe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyweek6 * License : GPL Description : Help

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread The Fungi
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: [...] > Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? [...] You can't, necessarily. Especially if the MTA is running on RFC 1918 addresses behind a NAT and relying on external DNS (which I expect is becoming quite common these days).

Bug#475726: ITP: plexus-io -- Input-output utility library for Plexus

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-io Version : 1.5.3 Upstream Author : Codehaus developers. * URL : http://plexus.codehaus.org/ * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Input-

Bug#475741: ITP: clipperz -- secure online password manager

2008-04-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: clipperz Version : 003 Upstream Author : Clipperz Srl * URL : http://www.clipperz.com/ * License : AGPL Programming Lang: PHP and Javascript Description : secure

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 11:32:32 +0200, "Bernhard R. Link" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080412 10:30]: >> >I don't think that is only limited to additional lookups. I think I've >> >also seen a message not being sent on etch, because the target host >> >also had a

Re: exim, local resolver, host name lookups and IPv6

2008-04-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:58:24 +, The Fungi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:41:54AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >[...] >> Where can I obtain the FQDN of the system instead? >[...] > >You can't, necessarily. So it needs to be in /etc/hosts. >Is there any way to simply >*insis

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Greenland
On 11-Apr-08, 16:07 (CDT), Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I humbly offer up samba-common in unstable as an example of a package that > DTRT with ucf to manage a config file. Is it just me, or does everyone get prompted twice about smb.conf on samba/samba-common upgrades? (I've looked

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-04-12 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat April 12 2008 10:48:01 Steve Greenland wrote: > Is it just me, or does everyone get prompted twice about smb.conf on > samba/samba-common upgrades? (I've looked through the various install > and config scripts, but not closely enough to figure out why...) It happened here too. I haven't fi

Re: Debian Configuration Packaging System

2008-04-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:48:01PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 11-Apr-08, 16:07 (CDT), Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I humbly offer up samba-common in unstable as an example of a package that > > DTRT with ucf to manage a config file. > Is it just me, or does everyone get p

Bug#475760: ITP: sputnik -- A small and easy to extend wiki

2008-04-12 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: sputnik Version: git master branch Upstream Author: Yuri Takhteyev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/en/ License

Bug#475761: ITP: librose-db-perl -- A DBI wrapper and abstraction layer

2008-04-12 Thread Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: librose-db-perl Version : 0.743 Upstream Author : John C. Siracusa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rose-DB/ * License : Dual: Artis

Bug#475773: ITP: mkgmap -- Generate Garmin maps from OpenStreetMap data

2008-04-12 Thread Andreas Putzo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Putzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: mkgmap Version : r561 Upstream Author : Steve Ratcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.parabola.me.uk/mkgmap/index.html * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Java

Re: python-sphinx or sphinx?

2008-04-12 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, > If it's just a tool, that name is fine. But if it also contains modules, then > I > think you should go for python-*. Perhaps you could make two binary packages, > one for the module(s) and one for the tool, although that could be > overkilling... looks more like a module in my eyes, so p

Bug#475780: ITP: plexus-archiver -- Plexus archiving libraries

2008-04-12 Thread Paul Cager
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Cager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plexus-archiver Version : 1.0-alpha-9 Upstream Author : Codehaus developers * URL : plexus.codehaus.org * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: Java Description : Plexu

(English-speaking) Canadian users: default to US or "Canadian multilingual" keymap?

2008-04-12 Thread Christian Perrier
I'm seeking advices for #475482. console-data recently got a new keymap, namely "ca-multi", which features the "Canadian multilingual" keymap. This keymap is standardized by standard bodies in Canada and seems to be available from several hardware vendors. My understanding is that local official