Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
Hi, I'd like to package mu-conference 0.7 (multi-user chat component for jabber). The version currently in Debian (jabber-muc 0.6.0) uses the user ``jabber'', which is created by jabber-common, on which jabber-muc depends. The new version can be installed stand-alone, and thus there won't be any

Bug#511674: ITP: libthread-queue-perl -- Perl module for thread-safe queues

2009-01-13 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov [Cc-ed to p...@packages.d.o since this module is in perl-modules] * Package name: libthread-queue-perl Version : 2.11 Upstream Author : Jerry D. Hedden, * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Thread-Queue/ * License

Bug#511675: ITP: libjpcap -- A Java library for capturing and sending network packets

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick Dignan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Patrick Dignan * Package name: libjpcap Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Keita Fujii * URL : http://netresearch.ics.uci.edu/kfujii/jpcap/doc/ * License : LGPLv2+ and BSD with advertising Programming Lang: Java and C

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Harald Braumann wrote: > package's directories for the new user. But a downgrade would then not > be possible. The old version couldn't access the directories. > > Is there precedence for such a situation? How can it be resolved? Downgrades are not supported. (which doesn't mean they should

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using the > same user. > Why not? There are already multiple packages that use the same user, e.g. www-data. You should only create it and never remove to avoid brea

Re: building packages/ chroot/ pbuilder/...

2009-01-13 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Ben Finney [Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:03:14 +1100]: > Yes, packages targeted for Debian should be built with the latest > available packages from ‘unstable’ at the time the package is built. Of course, you meant "targeted for Debian unstable or experimental". You don't do that if your upload is targe

Bug#511681: ITP: certmaster -- Remote certificate distribution framework

2009-01-13 Thread Nima Talebi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nima Talebi * Package name: certmaster Version : 0.24 Upstream Author : Michael DeHaan , Adrian Likins , Seth Vidal * URL : https://fedorahosted.org/certmaster/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:55:31 +0100 Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Harald Braumann wrote: > > package's directories for the new user. But a downgrade would then > > not be possible. The old version couldn't access the directories. > > > > Is there precedence for such a situation? How can it be

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:51:29 +0100 "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > > > AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using > > the same user. > > > > Why not? There are already multiple packages that use the

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Russ Allbery
Harald Braumann writes: > "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: >>> AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using >>> the same user. >> Why not? There are already multiple packages that use the same user, >> e.g.

Bug#511716: ITP: ttymidi -- serial to ALSA MIDI adapter

2009-01-13 Thread Székelyi Szabolcs
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Székelyi Szabolcs" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ttymidi Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Unknown * URL : http://www.varal.org/ttymidi/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Descriptio

Bug#511715: ITP: gallery3 -- web-based photo album written in PHP

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Schultheiss * Package name: gallery3 Version : 3.0 * URL : http://gallery.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : web-based photo album written in PHP Gallery3 is a web-based photo album

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:15:47 -0800 Russ Allbery wrote: > Harald Braumann writes: > > "Francesco P. Lovergine" wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:35:49AM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > >>> AFAIK, there's no way for multiple independent packages for using > >>> the same user. > > >> Why

Re: Bug#511640: ITP: gbirthday -- GBirthday is a birthday reminder application that helps you to remember your evolution contacts' birthdays.

2009-01-13 Thread Wolf Wiegand
Hi, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Rolf Leggewie (13/01/2009): > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Rolf Leggewie > > > > * Package name: gbirthday > > Version : 0.4.1 > > Upstream Author : Alex Mallo > > * URL : http://gbirthday.sf.net/ > > * License

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > Well, yes, but I don't see why you'd need a globally allocated user. > > Why don't you just use the same username as the other package? I > > don't see why that wouldn't work, and I don't see anything in Policy > > 9.2 that says

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:57:11 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > > Well, yes, but I don't see why you'd need a globally allocated > > > user. Why don't you just use the same username as the other > > > package? I don't see why that w

Bug#511733: ITP: lua-sec -- SSL support library for lua

2009-01-13 Thread Enrico Tassi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: lua-sec Version: 0.3 Upstream Author: Bruno Silvestre – brunoos at inf . puc-rio . br URL: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~brunoos/luasec/

Re: Change user used by package

2009-01-13 Thread Harald Braumann
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:57:11 -0800 Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > > > Well, yes, but I don't see why you'd need a globally allocated > > > user. Why don't you just use the same username as the other > > > package? I don't see why that w

Re: Bug#511640: ITP: gbirthday -- GBirthday is a birthday reminder application that helps you to remember your evolution contacts' birthdays.

2009-01-13 Thread Ben Finney
Wolf Wiegand writes: > My suggestion: > > Description: Birthday reminder for evolution's contacts That's good, but better would be to follow the guidelines in http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/ch-best-pkging-practices#s-bpp-pkg-synopsis>, which recommends the synopsis should work a

Re: Arch:all package depending on package that isn't Arch:any

2009-01-13 Thread Julian Andres Klode
2009/1/13 Neil Williams : > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:30:08 +0100 > "Julian Andres Klode" wrote: > >> Russ Allbery wrote: >> > It would be nice if there were some way of telling the archive software >> > not to include this package in the archive index on the platforms it >> > doesn't support, though

FTP team name (was: Ftpteam members)

2009-01-13 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joerg Jaspert (jo...@ganneff.de): > Call for help > - > Even with one new member just added and another one possibly following > soon, we can do with more people. The points I listed in [1] basically > still hold true, in case you consider it, but lets put them in here again. :)

Re: Bits from the Debian CD team

2009-01-13 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Frans Pop writes: > Overview of available CD/DVD/Blu-ray images for Lenny > - > Architecture-specific images: > * businesscard CD > * network install (netinst) CD > * full CD (650MB) images, users can now choose between: > - standard CD set, w