Bug#682833: marked as done (general: Compose key is ignored when using Xfce4 and GDM.)

2012-07-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:39:33 +0200 with message-id <201207260939.34389.hol...@layer-acht.org> and subject line Re: Bug#682833: general: Compose key is ignored when using Xfce4 and GDM. has caused the Debian Bug report #682833, regarding general: Compose key is ignored when using Xf

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 07:47 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > On 26/07/2012 02:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-07-25 21:28:16 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > >> On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:20 +0200 > >> Svante Signell wrote: > >> > >>> Is emacs24 going to be the default package for Wheezy?

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 02:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-07-25 21:28:16 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 21:58:20 +0200 > > Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > Is emacs24 going to be the default package for Wheezy? ... > > emacs24 wouldn't seem to meet any of the criter

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 15:13 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Svante Signell writes: > > > I think this issue is very relevant to Wheezy. Why are there so many > > outdated packages going into this release? The whole idea of unstable is > > (to my understanding) to package the latest upstream releases

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:10AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Well there is experimental that could be used to package pre-releases > and new releases to make them suitable for unstable and testing _before_ > the freeze! > > Add to that unresponsive package maintainers, refusing to package ne

Re: Bug#682804: ITP: libtenum -- C++ metaprogramming library to make enums a little bit nicer

2012-07-26 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> Description : C++ metaprogramming library to make enums a little bit > nicer if you could make that description more meaningful, _that_ would be very nice -- Salvo Tomaselli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Lars Wirzenius, le Thu 26 Jul 2012 10:31:24 +0100, a écrit : > * The new release is requested by insistent Hurd porters, I would just like to confirm that the Hurd porter team does *not* back Svante's request for new releases. Even though we have already explained him several times why in

Re: glibc very old

2012-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-26 13:33:46 +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > I think that there could be an optimization like that in > > fesetround() too. > > Do you think it's worth proposing this to the glibc people? Yes, since this makes the code much faster on some processors, I think it

Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-26 Thread Martin Bagge / brother
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2012-07-26 02:19, Filipus Klutiero wrote: > The above is incorrect. The keyring only contains Debian developers > which are packagers or members. Note that we have terminological > issues on this front (the constitution equates "Debian Developer"

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

2012-07-26 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-26 10:50:52 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 02:39 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > emacs23 doesn't have RC issues, but bug 608417 is close to one. This > > bug is worse that I expected in the first place. I got corrupted files > > several times without noticing the

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:31 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:10AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Well there is experimental that could be used to package pre-releases > > and new releases to make them suitable for unstable and testing _before_ > > the freeze! > > > >

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:28:34PM +0900, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Please consider that he is speaking on his own, do not take him as "the > Hurd porters". The Hurd porter team wants to avoid anything that would > delay the release. I apologize for implying that the Hurd porter team would do that

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Lars Wirzenius, le Thu 26 Jul 2012 13:46:40 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:28:34PM +0900, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Please consider that he is speaking on his own, do not take him as "the > > Hurd porters". The Hurd porter team wants to avoid anything that would > > delay the relea

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jon Dowland writes ("Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)"): > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:15:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > We are in the process of discussing a variety of constitutional amendment

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:31 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:02:10AM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > Well there is experimental that could be used to package pre-releases > > and new releases to make them suitable for unstable and testing _before_ > > the freeze! ... > *

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:28 +0900, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Lars Wirzenius, le Thu 26 Jul 2012 10:31:24 +0100, a écrit : > > * The new release is requested by insistent Hurd porters, ... > I would just like to confirm that the Hurd porter team does *not* > back Svante's request for new

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jon Dowland writes ("Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to > mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs > conflict)"): > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:15:15AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > W

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:20:23AM +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Svante Signell writes: > > NMUs should be made/allowed/encouraged? I know all packaging is made by > > volunteers at their spare time, but anyway. Debian is one of the best > > distributions, what about raising the bar a littl

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > We are in the process of discussing a variety of constitutional amendments > > > to be raised by the tech-ctte that will hopefully end up creating a sort > > > of bundle of constitutional fixes to vote on. Perhaps it would be good

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Jon Dowland writes ("Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)"): > I'm not overly interested in the word developer being eradicated, but at > the very least having some consistency in Debian's documents wou

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Jon Dowland writes: > I disagree. Maybe my statement was overly general indeed. I certainly agree with > There is work to be done to make Debian attract more contributors. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Andrey Rahmatullin writes ("Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)"): > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 01:55:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I am not in favour of this change. The point about a Debian Devel

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-07-26 14:29:14 +0100 (+0100), Ian Jackson wrote: [...] > We also need a general word for "someone involved with Debian in a > positive way". "Participant" is clumsy; "member of the community" > even more so. "Person" might do but word with a more positive spin > would be nice. As a long-ti

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Shuler
On 07/26/2012 08:37 AM, The Fungi wrote: > On 2012-07-26 14:29:14 +0100 (+0100), Ian Jackson wrote: > [...] >> We also need a general word for "someone involved with Debian in a >> positive way". "Participant" is clumsy; "member of the community" >> even more so. "Person" might do but word with a m

Re: Bug#682804: ITP: libtenum -- C++ metaprogramming library to make enums a little bit nicer

2012-07-26 Thread Beren Minor
This is a header only library to wrap C++ enums and automatically provide some functionality for (de)serialization from text streams. It also provides some different semantics on the way enumerations can be combined. I can give more detail as I'm the author of the library, but I'm not sure how to s

Re: Bug#681418: debugfs is a big security hole

2012-07-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 04:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I would like to address this by backporting this feature: > > commit d6e486868cde585842d55ba3b6ec57af090fc343 > Author: Ludwig Nussel > Date: Wed Jan 25 11:52:28 2012 +0100 > > debugfs: add mode, uid and gid options > > and t

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: > Heh, like that's going to work in Debian. What we could do though is > try harder to use the nouns we do have more consistently. Heh, like that's going to work in Debian. ;-) Actually I do think introducing new _and better/good_ terms wor

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Luk Claes
On 07/26/2012 03:29 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Developer, DD > As per the constitution; includes non-uploading DDs. > New Maintainer needs to be renamed to New Developer. > > [Non-]Uploading Developer > To distinguish where necessary, but usually we can use > Sponsor instea

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > Well there is experimental that could be used to package pre-releases > and new releases to make them suitable for unstable and testing _before_ > the freeze! Sure. But that doesn't magically happen; someone has to actually do it. > Add to that unresponsive package mai

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Wookey
+++ Svante Signell [2012-07-26 14:45 +0200]: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:31 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > > There are a ton of reasons why Debian may have an older version of > > an upstream release. For example, and I hasten to point out that > > the following list is by no means exhaustive,

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:24 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > > I can give a few examples of outdated packages having non-responsive > > maintainers, wine is one of them. See the wishlist bugs! Finally a set > > of NMUs solved that problem. >

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 18:54 +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > On 07/26/2012 03:29 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: ... > > We also need a general word for "someone involved with Debian in a > > positive way". "Participant" is clumsy; "member of the community" > > even more so. "Person" might do but word with a mor

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:24 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: >> If a you see an out-of-date package, please volunteer your time to help >> fix it. If you're not a DD, you can do the work and send a message to >> debian-mentors. > I have tried several times and I can give y

Re: Modified http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDeveloper to mention non-packagers (Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict)

2012-07-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ian Jackson (26/07/2012): > Uploaders needs to be abolished in favour of multiple > Maintainers. In wheezy perhaps ? I'm pretty sure the answer is no. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emacs23 and/or emacs24 in Wheezy?

2012-07-26 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Svante Signell (25/07/2012): > Is emacs24 going to be the default package for Wheezy? No. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Svante Signell wrote: >> If a you see an out-of-date package, please volunteer your time to >> help fix it. If you're not a DD, you can do the work and send a >> message to debian-mentors. > > I have tried several times and I can give you a recent example, see > #

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Svante Signell wrote: >> I have tried several times and I can give you a recent example, see >> #610209 and especially #669368. I have tried to contribute, but to no >> avail (at least in this case). > While it's nice that you've prepare

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> While it's nice that you've prepared a package for the new mlocate >> upstream version, getting it done after the freeze is simply far too >> late. Also, for packages that haven't been updated in a very long time >> (two years in this case),

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> In this case, the maintainer is definitely not MIA. Prompted by this >> thread, I looked over the open bugs (and took the liberty of tagging a >> couple since I was looking them over anyway), and they seem fairly >

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael Gilbert writes: > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: ... > > This would be a case where I think liberal NMUing would certainly be > > appropriate (of course prior to the freeze). > > Yeah, I guess that makes sens

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Svante Signell wrote: >> Yeah, I guess that makes sense, *if* the person doing the NMU then owns >> any bugs they introduce and of course doesn't do anything drastic like >> rewriting the build system. And provides plenty of warning. > > Please, what can I do being

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Svante Signell writes: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:58 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Yeah, I guess that makes sense, *if* the person doing the NMU then owns >> any bugs they introduce and of course doesn't do anything drastic like >> rewriting the build system. And provides plenty of warning. > P

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> True. Part of the problem is appropriate terminology. This is a case >> of what I would call an "undermaintained" package. Even though the >> maintainer is still around, and may be quite active elsewhere, this >> package has not gotten any

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Gilbert writes: > If one sees a package that has not been uploaded in 2 years (or 6 months > or however long), I think we should make it so that they can feel free > to liberal NMU it with a 10-day delay. If the maintainer was really > planning to hold the package back for some reason, t

Work-needing packages report for Jul 27, 2012

2012-07-26 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 460 (new: 4) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 145 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#682920: ITP: python-pyknon -- A simple Python music library

2012-07-26 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tiago Bortoletto Vaz * Package name: python-pyknon Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Pedro Kroger * URL : https://github.com/kroger/pyknon * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : A simple Python musi

Re: RFC: Why are so many debian packages outdated?

2012-07-26 Thread Miles Bader
I _knew_ Apple was behind this somehow! -miles -- Ocean, n. A body of water covering seven-tenths of a world designed for Man - who has no gills. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

intent to orphan zynaddsubfx

2012-07-26 Thread Bart Martens
Hello, I intend to orphan zynaddsubfx. Before doing that I invite two additional DD's to confirm that they agree with this intent with ma...@debian.org in cc. Youngest upload of zynaddsubfx by maintainer is 2009-08-31. The package has been maintained via NMU's since then. http://packages.qa.deb

xz (Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-26 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 19:13:45 -0400 Joey Hess wrote: > Which is why I asked for actual, real-world benchmarks... As I said in my presentation, I just tested a few case, fonts-horai-umefont, poppler-data and openclipart-png. Install fonts- and poppler-data is almost same time, but opencli