Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov
Hello there. I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451 I thing this violate 10.7.4 "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package, including the one the scripts belong to." But maintainer

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexander GQ Gerasiov writes: > I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451 > I thing this violate 10.7.4 > "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package, > including the one the scripts b

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:15:57 +0300, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: > Hello there. > > I found, that package rtpg-www modifies /etc/hosts on installation/purge > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608451 > > I thing this violate 10.7.4 > > "The maintainer scripts must not alte

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Russ Allbery writes: > For reference for others reading this, the postinst of the relevant > package follows. Note that it adds an unqualified hostname, potentially > shadowing a system in the local domain, if the user agrees to update > /etc/hosts. The debconf question is priority: high and de

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
AGG> But maintainer disagrees with me arguing that preinst asks user, and AGG> that's user who modify /etc/hosts (using preinst, eah). This action is done only if user afrees. There are a lot packages which do this. Policy says: The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of *any* package,

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
TAGG> so for example samba smb.conf isn't conffile, too, sorry for mistake -- ... mpd playing: WASP - The Horror . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: un...@debian.org jabber://un...@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D

debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-11 Thread Julien Cristau
Hi, recent versions of mutt convert attachments to their declared charset when saving them to disk (bug#537061). In particular, this means that a file with non-ascii characters, but wrongly sent with charset=us-ascii, would be converted to ascii on saving, replacing all non-ascii characters with

Bug#609662: ITP: useragent-switcher -- extension to switch the user agent of Iceweasel/Firefox

2011-01-11 Thread Fladischer Michael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fladischer Michael * Package name: useragent-switcher Version : 0.7.3 Upstream Author : Chris Pederick * URL : http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: JavaScript, XUL Descr

Bug#609667: ITP: server-spy -- display brand of web servers in Firefox/Iceweasel

2011-01-11 Thread Fladischer Michael
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fladischer Michael * Package name: server-spy Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Christophe Jacquet * URL : http://www.jacquet80.eu/mozilla/exts/ServerSpy/ * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2 or LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Java

Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to check if it was suitable for unblocking for squeeze. Firstly, thanks for fixing the bug so quickly. Unfortunately, the upload included a couple of other changes which aren't r

Re: Your pdf-presenter-console upload

2011-01-11 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Gah, that was intended for debian-release, not debian-devel; please direct follow-ups to -release. On Tue, January 11, 2011 13:18, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Hi, > > I was just having a look at the diff for your upload of > pdf-presenter-console 1.1.1+git.02dfcf-3, fixing #609608, to check if it >

Re: Directories named after packages

2011-01-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:44:43AM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 10/01/2011 22:52, Frank Küster wrote: > > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > >> 3. Historic/Upstream choice (?): /usr/share/doc/texmf > >>(Several TeX packages uses this.) > > > > That's old-fashioned (or, well, obsolete). > >

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 09:49 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit : > > "The maintainer scripts must not alter a conffile of any package, > > including the one the scripts belong to." > > > /etc/hosts is not a conffile, so it doesn't violate that part. > > However, the squeeze RC policy says [1] >

Re: Bug#609662: ITP: useragent-switcher -- extension to switch the user agent of Iceweasel/Firefox

2011-01-11 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:04:15PM +0100, Fladischer Michael wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Fladischer Michael > > * Package name: useragent-switcher Please see the existing bug #522243 for this package, and also #569961 where Daniel Baumann seems to have prepared packa

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > On a different, although similar issue, how would a change > of /etc/inittab in a maintainer script be regarded? > (I’m considering it for gdm3 in wheezy.) If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration files, then I would probably just have u

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 18:27 +0100, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration > files, then I would probably just have used Fedora or whatever. I am not seeking the opinion of other random developers - I’m sure there are people who won’t ag

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Joss, what change do you have in mind for /etc/inittab? cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > On a different, although similar issue, how would a change of > /etc/inittab in a maintainer script be regarded? (I’m considering it > for gdm3 in wheezy.) Policy indicates that if other packages should be able to modify /etc/inittab, sysvinit should provide a script

Re: debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org): > Hi, > > recent versions of mutt convert attachments to their declared charset > when saving them to disk (bug#537061). In particular, this means that a > file with non-ascii characters, but wrongly sent with charset=us-ascii, > would be converted to

Re: debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Julien Cristau (jcris...@debian.org): > bindgraph 0.2a-5.1 fr.po > > Jose Luis Tallon >bindgraph This one is a false positive: the French translation has a double question mark, which is "only" a typo of the translator and therefore doesn't deserve a fixed upload. (guess who is th

Re: Debian Policy "10.7.4 Sharing configuration files" question

2011-01-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 18:27 +0100, Bjørn Mork a écrit : >> If I wanted some random package maintainer to mess with my configuration >> files, then I would probably just have used Fedora or whatever. > > I am not seeking the opinion of other random developers - I’m

Bug#609712: ITP: drupal6-mod-statistics-advanced -- statistics_advanced modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-11 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-statistics-advanced Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Rodrigo Severo (http://drupal.org/user/496564) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/statistics_advanced * License : GPL Programmin

Bug#609713: ITP: drupal6-mod-browscap -- browscap modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-11 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-browscap Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Mike Ryan (http://drupal.org/user/4420) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/browscap * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description

Bug#609715: ITP: drupal6-mod-mobile-tools -- mobile_tools modules for Drupal 6

2011-01-11 Thread Al Nikolov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Al Nikolov * Package name: drupal6-mod-mobile-tools Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Tom Deryckere (http://drupal.org/user/25564) * URL : http://drupal.org/project/mobile_tools * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP De

Bug#609719: ITP: repmgr -- PostgreSQL 9.0 replication manager

2011-01-11 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Nenciarini * Package name: repmgr Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : 2ndQuadrant * URL : http://projects.2ndquadrant.com/repmgr * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : PostgreSQL replication mana

List of override disparities

2011-01-11 Thread Luca Falavigna
Policy § 2.5 [0] states packages must not depend on other packages with lower priority values. In order to better adhere to it, FTP Team recently implemented a new tool that generates a list of override disparities[1] daily. We export a yaml-formatted list, limited to the affected packages only, w

Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread brian m. carlson
I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, that maintainers should forward bugs upstream instead of requiring (or strongly encouraging)

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 23:54 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I > report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or > automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, > that maintainers should fo

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings (12/01/2011): > If a bug is not readily reproducible or isolatable, it may be > necessary to pass it over to an upstream maintainer who will know > what further questions to ask. But they need to send those > questions to the user, not to the Debian maintainer. In the kernel > team

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Finney
"brian m. carlson" writes: > I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs > I report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or > automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, > that maintainers should forward bugs upstream instead of

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
Quoth Cyril Brulebois , on 2011-01-12 01:59:03 +0100: > > If a bug is not readily reproducible or isolatable, it may be > > necessary to pass it over to an upstream maintainer who will know > > what further questions to ask. But they need to send those > > questions to the user, not to the Debian

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 18:29 -0700, Drake Wilson wrote: > Quoth Cyril Brulebois , on 2011-01-12 01:59:03 +0100: > > > If a bug is not readily reproducible or isolatable, it may be > > > necessary to pass it over to an upstream maintainer who will know > > > what further questions to ask. But they n

Re: what are Debian emacs (24) users supposed to do now?

2011-01-11 Thread jidanni
Regarding W: Failed to fetch http://emacs.orebokech.com/dists/sid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found > "RF" == Romain Francoise writes: RF> Either build from source yourself, or go back to Emacs 23. Holy moly. My .emacs file has evolved greatly since emacs 23 using your emacs 24 s

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Drake Wilson wrote: > Which upstream bug trackers, if any, would make the above not work? Sourceforge and probably Gforge/FusionForge trackers. The only tracker I'm aware of which would work is Trac, some instances of which allow anyone to put in anyone else's e

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Drake Wilson
(Woopsy, forgot to send to the list the first time.) Quoth Paul Wise , on 2011-01-12 10:55:34 +0800: [among other responses] > Sourceforge and probably Gforge/FusionForge trackers. > > The only tracker I'm aware of which would work is Trac, some instances > of which allow anyone to put in anyone

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread John Goerzen
On 01/11/2011 05:54 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: I've noticed a trend lately that I am often asked to forward the bugs I report to the Debian BTS upstream, either by the maintainers or automatically by a bug script. I believe, and I continue to believe, that maintainers should forward bugs upstre

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Finney
John Goerzen writes: > Now, here's how it proceeds if I have to forward a bug upstream for > Bacula, which uses Mantis. Creating a Mantis account takes 30 > seconds I don't know Brian's position on this, but “time to create an account with arbitrary upstream BTS” isn't the issue. “Having an ac

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Brian May
On 12 January 2011 14:15, John Goerzen wrote: > 8) This continues. For what it is worth, I generally will ask the submitter to use the upstream bug tracking system if there is any dispute or problems with the bug report. Sure, this isn't ideal, but seems to me to be a compromise between getting t

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-11 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
> I understand that maintainers' time is limited and that forwarding bugs > is not an enjoyable task. But I also understand that having a BTS > account for the upstream BTS of each of the 2405 packages I have > installed on my laptop (not to mention my other machines) is simply not > practical. I

Re: debconf translations broken in multiple packages

2011-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Many of these packages errors are direct or indirect consequences of > my l10n work during the lenny-squeeze release cycle. > > Direct when the last uploaded version is an NMU of mine.. > > Indirect when a maintainer uploaded after I prodded him|

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