Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, May 15 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > Raphael Hertzog writes: > >> CCing -policy, do we need to update policy to allow Binary: fields >> over multiple lines? > > Yes. (But I certainly have no objections to doing so.) > >> Currently it only says that the fields are comma-separated and >> spa

Re: integrating PAM module into nss-ldapd (RFH)

2009-05-16 Thread Howard Chu
Arthur de Jong wrote: Hello list (I've put a couple of people in Bcc to try to get more feedback), I'm working on integrating a PAM module into nss-ldapd and am looking for input on this. The PAM module was kindly provided by Howard Chu from the OpenLDAP project but I'm still working on the ser

Re: i386.changes vs source.changes

2009-05-16 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:26:28AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > pdebuild uses dpkg-buildpackage -S to generate a source package > which it then copies into the chroot to do the full build. FWIW, via cowbuilder you get _source.changes by default. So, for instance, I started seeing those files when

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 02:10 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > It is my recollection that each field in the control file (and > perhaps others) was supposed to follow rfc822 (now rfc5322), and that > says: > , > |Each header field is logically a single line of characters comprisi

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:31:26PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 02:10 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > > > It is my recollection that each field in the control file (and > > perhaps others) was supposed to follow rfc822 (now rfc5322), and that > > says: > > ,--

Bug#528925: ITP: bliss -- tool for computing automorphism groups and canonical labelings of graphs

2009-05-16 Thread David Bremner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Bremner * Package name: bliss Version : 0.50 Upstream Author : Tommi Juntilla and Petteri Kaski * URL : http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/bliss/index.shtml * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: C++ Description :

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-16 Thread Faidon Liambotis
Marco d'Itri wrote: > I have been told by upstream maintainers of one of my packages and by > prominent developers of other distributions that supporting a standalone > /usr is too much work and no other distribution worth mentioning does it > (not Ubuntu, not Fedora, not SuSE). BTW, last month Len

[RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
I've been looking for a solution to the problem of duplicating my user environment across different machines. My search has included anything I could find between the extremes of "manual copying" to "cfengine", but until now I've not been lucky in finding anything that integrates nicely with Debian

Bug#528943: ITP: belier -- open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer using ssh through several intermediate machines

2009-05-16 Thread Carl Chenet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Carl Chenet -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: belier Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : Carl Chenet * URL : http://www.ohmytux.com/belier * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Colin Tuckley
Mark Lawrence wrote: >To include everything in your home directory you add >a line containing ’*’. However, be aware that >building a package requires twice the amount of space >on the disk as the included files, so you will not be >able

Bug#528949: ITP: plasma-widget-pgame -- PGame is a Plasma widget similar to xgame application.

2009-05-16 Thread Michał Zając
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Michał Zając" * Package name: plasma-widget-pgame Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Kai Dombrowe * URL : http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/PGame?content=99357 * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, May 16 2009, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 09:31:26PM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 02:10 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> > >> > It is my recollection that each field in the control file (and >> > perhaps others) was supposed to follow

Re: Bug#528943: ITP: belier -- open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer using ssh through several intermediate machines

2009-05-16 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Carl Chenet writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Carl Chenet > > > * Package name: belier > Version : 0.7 > Upstream Author : Carl Chenet > * URL : http://www.ohmytux.com/belier > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: Python > Description

Re: Bug#528943: ITP: belier -- open a shell or execute a command on a remote computer using ssh through several intermediate machines

2009-05-16 Thread chaica
Hi Rotty, Thanks for your interest for Belier. The english documentation will be ready for monday and I'm going to upload a package with embedded english documentation on mentors.debian.net for the next week. I just wanted to begin the process and that's why I opened an ITP. But definitly I won't

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Mark, * [16.05.09 17:00]: > I've been looking for a solution to the problem of duplicating my user > environment across different machines. My search has included anything > I could find between the extremes of "manual copying" to "cfengine", > but until now I've not been lucky in finding anyth

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
On Sat May 16, 2009 at 04:20:20PM +0100, Colin Tuckley wrote: > Mark Lawrence wrote: > > >To include everything in your home directory you add > >a line containing ’*’. However, be aware that > >building a package requires twice the amount of space > >

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Manoj Srivastava writes: > It is my recollection that each field in the control file (and > perhaps others) was supposed to follow rfc822 (now rfc5322), and that > says: Well, that's definitely not currently the case, and we just added support for folding in 3.8.0 (IIRC) for several sp

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Mark Lawrence
Hi Michael, Thanks for the info and for explaining your model. On Sat May 16, 2009 at 06:42:35PM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > > I've been looking for a solution to the problem of duplicating my > > user environment across different machines. My search has included > > anything I could find

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Mark, * [17.05.09 01:35]: > My goal or use case is not entirely limited to "duplicating _my_ user > environment across different machines" as I wrote above. I am actualy > seeking the ability to package up the environment of any user on any > machine. What that gives me is a quick path to produ

Re: [RFC] userdeb - user accounts as .debs

2009-05-16 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Michael Stapelberg writes: >> Interesting idea though with fetching/storing configuration files via a >> revision control system. I think it would be worthwhile investigating >> the use of branches to capture the differences between hosts. > I decided against that in the first place because the a

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Ben Finney
Manoj Srivastava writes: > I think not, since there treating a field header as a single > logical line or as a line with continuation lines is conceptually > indistinguishable (I do not think we need to change any code with the > new explanation). […] > The part that I want to

Re: Bug#494714: dpkg-dev - dpkg-genchanges should fold lines

2009-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > I don't know what this “field header” is that you're referring to. Do > you mean “field”? There's no header involved, only fields, AFAICT. The things we're talking about (a key/value pair, basically) is called a "header field" in RFC 5322. The header part is of course becau