Re: What is this rule for?

2009-10-11 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 13:37 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andreas Tscharner writes: > > > This is true for Unix/Posix systems, but unfortunately not for Windows > > systems. And if the maintainer of a great Perl script wants his script > > to work on both platforms, he'll probably will name it > >

ITP: stockfish -- strong chess engine, to play chess against

2009-10-11 Thread Oliver Korff
Package: wnpp Owner: Oliver Korff Severity: wishlist * Package name: stockfish Version : 1.5.1JA Upstream Author : Marco Costalba * URL : http://www.mediafire.com/?5jx12zdyygw * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : strong chess engine, to

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernd Eckenfels: > In article <87d44vrp09@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: >> Not necessarily. It could also be a genuine compatibility issue with >> the IcedTea plug-in. > > We regularly see Bugs different from the ones on the Sun distribution. And as > a commercial software vendor we just do

Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. I would like to change shadow in that direction, with a configure option to restore the p

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 09:03:10AM +, Florian Weimer wrote: > Apart from font issues, we've received very few bug reports on > OpenJDK. I know of one C2 bug in stable which I probably should > report, but there is no isolated changeset we could backport, so it's > only fixable by moving stable

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Nicolas François writes: > When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with > the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > > I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to > move to mode 0600. Where did you hear this? Exactly what did you hear? Is this

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
Florian Weimer skrev: * Rasmus Bøg Hansen: As much as I'd like to drop sun-java6, I depend on it for my homebanking. At startup it prints "Checking java version" and later on it comes with a login box with sun-java6 - with icedtea6-plugin it just comes with a blank screen. It is the bank's fau

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Nicolas François writes: > > > When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with > > the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > > > > I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to > >

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: > Actually I was unaware that there were problems with icedtea6-plugin > and iceweasel 3.5. > > I tried downgrading to iceweasel 3.0 and my bank works like a charm > just as with Suns java. > > Just disregard my doubts and go remov

Bug#550593: ITP: gpdftext -- convert an ebook PDF to text

2009-10-11 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams * Package name: gpdftext Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Neil Williams * URL : http://gpdftext.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description : GTK+ text editor for ebook PDF f

Bug#550601: ITP: libxr -- Cross-platform XML-RPC client/server library written in C.

2009-10-11 Thread Fbo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fbo * Package name: libxr Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Ondřej Jirman * URL : http://oss.zonio.net/libxr.htm * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Cross-platform XML-RPC client/server library writ

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Rasmus Bøg Hansen
Stefano Zacchiroli skrev: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 02:28:51PM +0200, Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: Actually I was unaware that there were problems with icedtea6-plugin and iceweasel 3.5. I tried downgrading to iceweasel 3.0 and my bank works like a charm just as with Suns java. Just disregard my dou

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Gabor Gombas: > > - start advertising that openjdk/icedtea is now supposed to be usable, > > Note that the non-applet stuff has been quite usable for a while. > Even the openjdk-6 in lenny is not too bad (it's certainly possible to > run various produ

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 09.10.2009 07:41, Mark Allums wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 11:44:21AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some users reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but I have not seen a lot o

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 09.10.2009 00:03, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: On 2009-10-08, Barry deFreese wrote: Hi folks, A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is non-free, orphaned, buggy (including security bugs), and can generally be replaced by openjdk. There are only three reverse depends l

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 11.10.2009 19:41, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Fri, 09 Oct 2009, Florian Weimer wrote: * Gabor Gombas: - start advertising that openjdk/icedtea is now supposed to be usable, Note that the non-applet stuff has been quite usable for a while. Even the openjdk-6 in lenny is not too ba

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 11.10.2009 11:03, Florian Weimer wrote: * Bernd Eckenfels: In article<87d44vrp09@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: Not necessarily. It could also be a genuine compatibility issue with the IcedTea plug-in. We regularly see Bugs different from the ones on the Sun distribution. And as a co

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 10.10.2009 13:43, Sam Morris wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:14:20 +, Sam Morris wrote: On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:44:21 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with some users reporting that some web sites and packages don't work with openjdk but I

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Matthias Klose
On 11.10.2009 00:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article<87d44vrp09@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: Not necessarily. It could also be a genuine compatibility issue with the IcedTea plug-in. We regularly see Bugs different from the ones on the Sun distribution. And as a commercial software ve

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Matthias Klose wrote: On 11.10.2009 00:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: In article<87d44vrp09@mid.deneb.enyo.de> you wrote: Not necessarily. It could also be a genuine compatibility issue with the IcedTea plug-in. We regularly see Bugs different from the ones on the Sun distribution. And as

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Klose schrieb: > On 10.10.2009 13:43, Sam Morris wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:14:20 +, Sam Morris wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:44:21 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: There has also been some similar discussions in Ubuntu with

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Nicolas François wrote: When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. IIRC, it was a problem for the suppo

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Patrick Matthäi wrote: Games on www.playray.de also do not work with openjdk, e.g.: http://www.playray.de/spielen/klassische/yatzy/ With iceweasel I only get a grey window, also for every other game on this site. That's a Flash issue. Uninstall some of swfdec (I forget offhand which bits)

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Patrick Matthäi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums schrieb: > Patrick Matthäi wrote: > > > >> Games on www.playray.de also do not work with openjdk, e.g.: >> http://www.playray.de/spielen/klassische/yatzy/ >> >> With iceweasel I only get a grey window, also for every other game on >> thi

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Patrick Matthäi wrote: Mark Allums schrieb: Patrick Matthäi wrote: Games on www.playray.de also do not work with openjdk, e.g.: http://www.playray.de/spielen/klassische/yatzy/ With iceweasel I only get a grey window, also for every other game on this site. That's a Flash issue. Uninstall s

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 06:26:33PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Nicolas François wrote: > >>>When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER > >>>mailbox with > >>>the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > >>> > >>>I heard this causes some issues for dovecot,

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:49:22 Nicolas François wrote: > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to be in the mail group. Why? For Dovecot to acce

Re: Is it time to remove sun-java6?

2009-10-11 Thread Luke Cycon
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:44 -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > Hi folks, > > A few of us have been discussing the removal of sun-java6. It is > non-free, orphaned, buggy (including security bugs), and can > generally > be replaced by openjdk. There are only three reverse depends left > and > none

Bug#550675: ITP: libpod-markdown-perl -- module to convert POD to the Markdown file format

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpod-markdown-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Marcel Grünauer * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Markdown/ * Licen

Re: Bug#550542: ITP: jhdf -- Java HDF5 Object Package

2009-10-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:08:35AM +0200, Sylvestre Ledru a écrit : > > 4. All publications or advertising materials mentioning features or use of > this software must acknowledge that it was developed by the National > Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois,