Bug#536499: ITP: geany-plugins -- Geany plugins pack

2009-07-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: geany-plugins Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Andrew L Janke Bert Vermeulen Enrico Tröger Frank Lanitz Jeff Pohlmeyer

Bug#537193: ITP: gtk2-engines-aurora -- Aurora gtk+-2.0 theme engine

2009-07-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: gtk2-engines-aurora Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Eric Matthews * URL : http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=56438 * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#540155: ITP: pdfmod -- simple tool for modifying PDF documents

2009-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: pdfmod Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Gabriel Burt * URL : http://live.gnome.org/pdfmod * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C# Description : simple tool for modifying PDF

Bug#542351: ITP: hyena -- general purpose CLI library

2009-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: hyena Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Gabriel Burt * URL : http://live.gnome.org/Hyena * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C# Description : general purpose CLI library Hyena

Bug#570329: ITP: banshee-community-extensions -- Community contributed extensions for Banshee

2010-02-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: banshee-community-extensions Version : 1.5.4 Upstream Author : Gabriel Burt * URL : http://gitorious.org/banshee-community-extensions * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C

Bug#585517: ITP: poppler-sharp -- PDF rendering library -- CLI bindings

2010-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: poppler-sharp Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Jacinto Shy, Jr. * URL : http://www.github.com/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C# Description : PDF rendering library -- CLI

Bug#586022: ITP: pdfsharp-migradoc -- A set of libraries for creating and modifying PDF documents

2010-06-15 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: pdfsharp-migradoc Version : 1.31 Upstream Author : empira Software GmbH, Cologne (Germany) * URL : http://www.pdfsharp.net/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C# Description : A

Bug#589332: ITP: gudev-sharp-1.0 -- GObject-based wrapper library for libudev -- CLI bindings

2010-07-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: gudev-sharp-1.0 Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Alex Launi * URL : https://www.launchpad.net/gudev-sharp * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C# Description : GObject-based

Bug#589433: ITP: gkeyfile-sharp-1.0 -- Key-value file parser

2010-07-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: gkeyfile-sharp-1.0 Version : 0.1~git20100708.c2998a9 Upstream Author : Alex Launi * URL : http://www.gitorious.org/gkeyfile-sharp/ * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: C

Bug#611445: ITP: haserl -- CGI scripting program for embedded environments

2011-01-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: haserl Version : 0.9.27 Upstream Author : Nathan Angelacos * URL : http://haserl.sf.net * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: C Description : CGI scripting program for embedded

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Hi, On Thursday 03,March,2011 12:02 AM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > [...] > - Instead, we move all packages that are to be unpacked into > half-installed / reinstreq before touching the first one, and put a > big sync() right before carefully writing /var/lib/dpkg/status. Could we somehow avoid u

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thursday 03,March,2011 06:56 AM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Am Mi den 2. Mär 2011 um 23:09 schrieb Julien BLACHE: >>> Because I work in a untrusted work place and home network (public >>> networks, wifi...) I whish to purge zeroconf functionnality. > >> Looks like you want a firewall. Just sayin'.

Re: Speeding up dpkg, a proposal

2011-03-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thursday 03,March,2011 02:45 PM, Marius Vollmer wrote: > ext Chow Loong Jin writes: > >> Could we somehow avoid using sync()? sync() syncs all mounted filesystems, >> which >> isn't exactly very friendly when you have a few slow-syncing filesystems like &

Re: sudo pbuilder build - error

2009-03-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
denied > > > > At a guess, the upstream build process isn't taking any notice of your > > DESTDIR. But if you can put the source somewhere visible, it will be much > > easier > > to advise. > > In attachment is my debianized source ... > > regards

Bug#531065: ITP: alarm-clock-applet -- Alarm Clock applet for the GNOME panel

2009-05-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: alarm-clock-applet Version : 0.2.5 Upstream Author : Johannes H. Jensen * URL : http://alarm-clock.pseudoberries.com/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : Alarm

Bug#531153: ITP: banshee-alarm-extension -- Alarm extension for Banshee

2009-05-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: banshee-alarm-extension Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Bertrand Lorentz * URL : http://banshee-unofficial-plugins.googlecode.com * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C

Bug#531209: ITP: banshee-coverwallpaper -- Cover wallpaper extension for Banshee

2009-05-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: banshee-coverwallpaper Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : David Corrales * URL : http://banshee-unofficial-plugins.googlecode.com * License : MIT/X11 (BSD like) Programming Lang: C

Bug#532488: ITP: geanyprj -- an alternative project manager for Geany

2009-06-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: geanyprj Version : 0.5-1 Upstream Author : Yura Siamashka * URL : http://plugins.geany.org/geanyprj/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : an alternative project

Bug#532630: ITP: geanydoc -- a documentation plugin for Geany

2009-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: geanydoc Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Yura Simashka * URL : http://plugins.geany.org/geanydoc/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : a documentation plugin for

Bug#532632: ITP: geanydoc -- a documentation plugin for Geany

2009-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: geanydoc Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Yura Siamashka * URL : http://plugins.geany.org/geanydoc/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : a documentation plugin for

Re: Sources licensed under PHP License and not being PHP are not distributable

2014-06-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 02:43:16PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:57:43PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > I'd recommend that we safeguard our users against 'PHP' licensing problems > > the same way I protect myself against a meteorite hitting me on my way to > > work

Bug#755273: ITP: yagv -- yet another G-Code visualizer

2014-07-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: yagv Version : 0.4~git20130423.r5bd15ed Upstream Author : Jonathan Winterflood * URL : https://github.com/jonathanwin/yagv * License : CC-BY-3.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#763836: ITP: rhc -- OpenShift command-line tools

2014-10-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: rhc Version : 1.31.2 Upstream Author : Red Hat, Inc. * URL : https://www.openshift.com * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description : OpenShift command-line tools

Re: Weak c++ symbols refresher needed

2014-10-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi, > > I am starring at bug #758572. Basically OP reports that `cmake` is > underlinked, which is a serious issue as per policy. However when > reading the details it appears that this is a c++ weak symbol (AFAIK > no weak defau

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 26/04/2012 03:05, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 19:49 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Apr 25, Patrick Lauer wrote: >> > ... >>> I'd like to ask you to evaluate OpenRC as candidate to replace the "old" >>> have-always-been-there sysvinit/insserv init scripts in Debian. >> What w

Re: thttpd

2012-04-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 27/04/2012 00:37, lego12...@yandex.ru wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:06:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Oleg writes: >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:40:27AM -0500, Juli?n Moreno Pati?o wrote: >> thttpd was removed, for more details, please see: >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/

Re: thttpd

2012-04-26 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 27/04/2012 02:59, Oleg wrote: > Yes, i'm searching a tiny httpd for an embedded system with cgi support and > possibly with http basic authentication support. > Thank you. I didn't know about busybox httpd. No problem. busybox httpd supports CGI (just throw scripts into cgi-bin), but it loo

Re: Definition of _boot_

2012-04-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/04/2012 03:51, Svante Signell wrote: > - starting up the network: yes if network booting, other things can be > done later. > - starting an MTA: no > - staring sshd: no On my remotely administered Debian server, these three are *definitely* part of the boot process, and it's not network boot

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 21/05/2012 08:45, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:30:11AM +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >> On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 14:02 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: >>> >>> I'd love to see that happen someday, but at the moment, new x86 systems >>> still get sold that don't support 64-bit. No

Bug#674074: ITP: tinyxml2 -- C++ XML parsing library

2012-05-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: tinyxml2 Version : 0~git20120518.1.a2ae54e Upstream Author : Lee Thomason * URL : http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml2/ * License : zlib/libpng Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-05-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 25/05/2012 18:20, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > Double-click on a .tar causes it to be unpacked in /tmp/something. > I suppose a lot of not so skilled users do that instead of tar -xf That doesn't seem to happen with file-roller. Perhaps you need to file a bug with your graphical archiver program.

Bug#675206: ITP: newtonsoft-json -- compiled XML documentation for Json.NET

2012-05-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: newtonsoft-json Version : 4.5r4 Upstream Author : James Newton-King * URL : http://http://json.codeplex.com * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C# Description : high-performance

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/06/2012 11:23, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> Are you seriously suggesting that DHCP and SSH servers should not listen >> on external interfaces by default? The use case for SSH or DHCPd on >> localhost only is pretty small. > > I

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 10/08/2012 08:04, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 01:16:17AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> Wasn't the idea of porting to non-Linux rejected by upstart's upstream? > > Porting upstart to non-Linux kernels has never been rejected by upstream. > It just requires porters to do th

Re: Allowing multi-arch specs in depends line?

2012-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 19/08/2012 09:05, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 03:09:46PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> I prepared a package for BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu) with all the >> dependencies for owners of CUDA-savvy NVidia cards to help installing the >> libraries. Since many scientifi

Re: New upstream version of velvet contains debian/ dir

2012-09-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 12/09/2012 05:29, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:33:28 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> If the Debian maintainer uses the 3.0 format, the debian/ directory is >> magically removed from the upstream tarball anyway. > > Right, but it's still annyoing when importing into a VCS.

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of wrongdoings is > long: > - Patch releases are only available from the git repository Maybe I'm daft, but I can't seem to find any patch releases, actually. Where are they stored? -

Re: Do opaque struct changes break C library ABIs

2013-05-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 13:17, Guillem Jover wrote: > Yeah that should be the case, the dynamic linker should not be > loading the same SONAME multiple times, so there should be no race > here, and I agree dlopen()ing shared libraries in general should not > be supported (I'd even go further and say this sho

Re: Do opaque struct changes break C library ABIs

2013-05-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/05/2013 19:50, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 17/05/13 10:43, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On 17/05/2013 13:17, Guillem Jover wrote: >>> I agree dlopen()ing shared libraries in general should not be >>> supported (I'd even go further and say this should be outrigh

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 23/05/2013 02:35, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> Sure; obviously the right thing to do is to instead take stuff from GNOME >> > and freedesktop.org without regard to integration with our existing system, >> > because if Lennart says it's right it must be so. > Honestly, these personal accus

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
I really like how this paragraph: On 23/05/2013 02:41, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > [...] > And another one. Why is it that almost anyone who isn't favor of > systemd is directly going off insulting their developers or any > of the organizations behind of it? and this paragraph: > Blame Ca

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-06-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 03/06/2013 00:33, Simon McVittie wrote: > [...] > The current upstream systemd has an "include" mechanism by which the > unit in /etc can say "copy all keys from the upstream version in /lib, > then set Foo=bar", and also a mechanism by which individual keys in a > unit can be overridden by a se

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 06/06/2013 06:54, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2013-06-05 15:02:35 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> Did I miss anything? > > I don't understand at all how you could have missed such a prime > opportunity to rile up the vi vs. emacs debate while you were at > it... or am I showing my

Re: DH way to set SONAME

2013-06-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 08:00:39AM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > because of backward incompatibility I have to add a suffix to > my library package name. But lintian keep noticing the mismatch. > I know the the soname of a library can be specify by passing > appropriate options to

Re: Bug#711359: ITP: python-first -- simple function that returns the first true value from an iterable

2013-06-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 11:14:56AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > On Thursday, June 06, 2013 09:01:05 PM Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 04:31:43PM +0200, Julien Danjou wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Julien Danjou > > > > > > * Package name

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 01:06:40PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > [...] > In my gross stupidity this seems like a nonissue. How does a popup > asking for your root p/w differ from using the CLI, typing "su" and > being asked for the root p/w? I'm assuming that the popup was in > connection with a

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:06:24AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 10-06-13 10:32, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:59:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >> On 08-06-13 00:33, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > >> > >> Isn't this p

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:42:55PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 05:12:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > > > >> > > > >> Isn't this packaged already? You don'

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 10:43:57PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > even "slight" removal commands), which allow him to do the most of > > packaging work

Re: Bug#711570: ITP: libsdl2-mixer -- Mixer library for SDL2

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:31:07PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:17:26PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > > > >>> * Package name: libsdl2-mixer > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Isn't this p

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-10 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 09:45:35PM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > [...] > > A. resolv.conf is a static file which changes only very rarely. > > Implications: > > 1. Existing DNS client applications do not need to change. > > 2. DNS service should always be provided at a fixed address > >

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Chow, > > am Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 09:15:48AM +0800 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 07:56:24PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote: > > > > So, I think the developer should have a set of tools (including gb and > > >

Re: Why not to let all DDs to execute "gb"-command

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:10:53AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Chow Loong Jin (11/06/2013): > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:29:33AM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > I said random, not deterministic. Giving back until a certain test > > > succeeds, for instance. Becau

Re: security policy / root passwords

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:22:32AM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > [...] > I've also seen another laptop that is on the fringe of a wifi coverage > zone getting into a bad state where multiple copies of the wifi password > window appear - if the laptop is unattended for a few hours, you can > come ba

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:38:52AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > Not for what he's described. dig @$other_server would still work just fine, > you would merely have /etc/resolv.conf pointing at 127.0.0.1 and have the > *kernel* handle the DNS forwarding instead of using dnsmasq or another

Re: default MTA

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:01:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > On 28/05/13 03:02, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? > > > > Are there any objections other than "

Re: x32 “half” arrived… now what?

2013-06-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:36:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 21:04 +0100, Roger Lynn wrote: > > On 06/06/13 21:10, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Be aware that x32 has sizeof(time_t) > sizeof(long), so you sh

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > [...] > |While it is sad that those machines cannot profit from systemd, switching > |to systemd as a default has no downside either: Debian continues to > |support sysvinit for quite some time, so these machines will continue > |to work

Re: Survey answers part 1: systemd has too many dependencies, …

2013-06-12 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:44:16AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 04:40:22PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > > Bitrot doesn't happen immediately, and even when it does happen, it will > > take time before its rate reaches an unmanageable state. Ple

Re: On upstart implementing Debian Policy §9.11.1 on behalf of sysv init scripts

2013-06-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 20 June 2013 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: > > > >> Thus in a bug report 712763 [4], included below, I instead propose > >> instead shipping slightly larger block of code in the upstart package > >> w

Re: On upstart implementing Debian Policy §9.11.1 on behalf of sysv init scripts

2013-06-21 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:52:40AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 21 June 2013 11:24, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> On 20 June 2013 18:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes

Re: download of source packages alarmed clamav

2013-06-25 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:04:40AM -0700, Austin English wrote: > [...] > FYI, some Windows viruses work under Wine (which can do whatever your > normal user can do, unless you're using AppArmor or something similar > to restrict it). That's not entirely true -- a Windows-based keylogger wouldn't

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-06-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 04:46:28PM -0400, Dave Steele wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Julien Cristau wrote: > > AFAIK most of these get fixed up by ldconfig, which means they're not a > > problem in practice. > > It wasn't clear to me how this would be the case, so I reran the logs > wi

Re: Mass bug filing for shared library broken symlinks detected by piuparts

2013-07-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
onfig's job to fix up > a dangling e.g. > libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.2 > symlink (because it's a missing dependency). > > On 2013-07-01 03:29, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > I believe that he's referring to ld.so.cache containing a mapping of > $SONAME -> &

Re: bluetooth (Re: PulseAudio

2013-07-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:42:46AM -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > > Broadcom is in serious need of a full-frontal attack. > > Everyone should check for them before buying hardware, > And if you 'dmidecode | grep -i broadcom' gives or says anything, > spend your money elsewhere. > > Or take it

Re: Survey answers part 3: systemd is not portable and what this means for our ports

2013-07-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:50:36AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Thu, July 18, 2013 09:15, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> - Fast startup > > > > I thought everyone claimed (including systemd supporters) that this was > > a "teenager side effect" which we didn't care much about. > > Definitely not

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 06:44:49AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Hi all, > > I do occasionally check for identical files on different systems by > comparing their md5sums. So, just out of interest, could someone tell me > (how to find out) how many non-identical files with identical md5sums > t

Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on Debian systems?

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:15:41PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Russ Allbery writes ("Re: Non-identical files with identical md5sums on > Debian systems?"): > > Unless you have a collection of MD5 collision attacks, or have installed a > > package that includes a sample MD5 collision, [...] > > Fo

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: "HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai)" > > > > * Package name: mikutter > > Version : 0.2.2.1318 > >

Re: Bug#718791: ITP: mikutter -- Simple, powerful and moeful twitter client

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:56:51PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 12:46 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:59:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 10:35:01PM +0900, HIGUCHI Daisuke (VDR dai) wrote: >

Re: Finding correct component for Virtual Box / Debian / screen resolution issue

2013-08-06 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:24:15PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I strongly oppose installing, by default, any userland program that > > takes over such low-level hardware control. > > Considering that Linux (on my machine) doesn't appear to

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-11 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 02:51:52AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > [...] > > On the other hand, detecting text files is hard. The best tool so far, > "file", makes so many errors it's useless for this purpose. One could use > location: like, declaring stuff in /etc/ and /usr/share/doc/ to be text

Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: qreator Version : 13.05.3 Upstream Author : David Planella * URL : https://launchpad.net/qreator * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description : utility for creating QR

Re: Bug#720202: ITP: qreator -- utility for creating QR codes

2013-08-19 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Greetings Thomas, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:16:11PM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > [...] > Since it seems there is already a qr generator in Debian (qrencode), I > suppose > qreator has some feature that are lacking in qrencode. Could you develop > those? That would be especially useful in

Re: overriding udev rules

2013-08-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:39:13AM +0200, olivier sallou wrote: > hi, > I need for a package to override some udev standard rules. > > If I put an identical rule name in /etc/udev/rules.d, I know it overrides > the one in /lib/udev/rules.d > [...] > Is there an other way to override udev rules in

Re: Bug#719673: ITP: needrestart -- needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades

2013-08-22 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:20:32AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Patrick Matthäi > > > needrestart checks which daemons need to be restarted after library > > upgrades. > > It is inspired by checkrestart(1) from the debian-goodies package. > > It does not rely on lsof as checkrestart does.

Bug#722308: ITP: abx -- audio ABX testing software

2013-09-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: abx Version : 0.0~b1 Upstream Author : Petteri Hintsanen * URL : http://phintsan.kapsi.fi/abx.html * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : audio ABX testing software

Re: packaging Postgres binary dump files

2013-09-20 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 09:07:48AM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > PostBooks distributes their schema as a Postgres binary dump file for > > use with pg_restore > > What is their reason for using the binary format? Could they be > convinced to

Re: Bug#728809: ITP: ndt -- A network diagnostic tool.

2013-11-05 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:33:14PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Op 05-11-13 19:52, Dominic Hamon schreef: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Dominic Hamon > > > > * Package name: ndt > > Version : 3.6.5.2 > > * URL : http://www.internet2.edu/performan

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/10/2011 03:34, Dallas Clement wrote: > > I can produce a core file, but unfortunately I can't see the symbols > inside the pthread lib to determine where it is crashing. Is there a > pthread library source package or debug version of libc / pthreads > that I can try? Debugging symbols can

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-29 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 30/10/2011 06:22, Dallas Clement wrote: > That certainly makes sense. I'm still not seeing the symbols though. > My kernel log show that the segfault came from the pthreads library, > yet when I load the core file into gdb, I'm not seeing any symbols. > > (gdb) bt > #0 0x7f04e3102d7c in ?

Re: segfault error 4 in libpthread-2.13.so X86_64

2011-10-30 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 31/10/2011 13:13, Dallas Clement wrote: > The symbols are definitely present on my system. When I step through > the execution, I can see where it is crashing inside the pthread > library. The last thing it does is join with one thread that was > previously spawned. And so? -- Kind regards,

Re: dh_strip failing on cross-compilation

2011-11-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 10/11/2011 00:50, Ole Wolf wrote: > I'm trying to build packages for multiple architectures. The package builds > fine > on the native system (amd64), but when I issue "debuild -ai386", I'm > eventually > greeted with an error stating that "dh_strip: i686-linux-gnu-strip" doesn't > exist. >

Re: Simplifying bootstrap on circular-dependent packages

2011-11-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/11/2011 18:12, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > [...] > How do you intend to build that fake lib? > > I guess it comes down to getting a list of symbols on an existing > architecture (or from the symbols file?), creating a "void symbol;" stub > for each and then building a fake lib for the targ

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/11/2011 22:43, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> Most netbooks and small laptops (such as Thinkpads) do not. > My thinkpad has it... Mine doesn't. The smaller Thinkpads (less than 14"?) don't. -- Kind regards, Loong Jin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-16 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 16/11/2011 22:45, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > >> Given that any burning software can (approximately) determine what size the >> ISO file will be, it should really not start to write it in /tmp when the >> /tmp size is not big enough (which the software can also check). Prompting >> a user with "I

Re: Simplifying bootstrap on circular-dependent packages

2011-11-17 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 17/11/2011 22:24, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As said, the mangled symbol can differ between architectures. So if you > take the symbol from one architecture then you need to demangle it there > and mangle it again on the target architecture. Ah, my mistake, I forgot that the purpose of the f

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/12/2011 07:12, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > And by extend, I mean something like: > > , > | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify > | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* > ` > > The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script would do the sed magic. This would > make the simple cases simple, and would still all

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/12/2011 07:12, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > And by extend, I mean something like: > > , > | #! /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify > | /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH}/* > ` > > The /usr/bin/dh_multiarchify script would do the sed magic. This would > make the simple cases simple, and would still all

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/12/2011 01:40, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > *tad* It would need to be a compiled program, since you can’t use scripts in shebangs. >>> >>> Wrong, you can. >> >> On Linux and Hurd, yeah. >> On kFreeBSD, you can't. >> >> But hey, FreeBSD folks learned about

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/12/2011 02:10, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Chow Loong Jin writes: > >>> See my workaround in the mail you quoted. "#! /bin/sh $PATH" should work >>> for kFreeBSD and pretty much anything else out there too. An extra >>> /bin/sh never hurt anybody! >

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-09 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 10/12/2011 01:36, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 12/08/2011 07:00 PM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: >> On 09/12/2011 01:40, Gergely Nagy wrote: >>> Adam Borowski writes: >>> >>>>>> *tad* >>>>>> It would need to be a compiled program, si

Bug#653894: ITP: mediainfo -- MediaInfo supplies information about a video or audio file

2012-01-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: mediainfo Version : 0.7.52 Upstream Author : i...@mediaarea.net * URL : http://mediainfo.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : MediaInfo supplies information

Re: Bug#653894: ITP: mediainfo -- MediaInfo supplies information about a video or audio file

2012-01-01 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 02/01/2012 02:39, Alessio Treglia wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Milan P. Stanic wrote: >> Mediainfo is already in Debian multimedia. > > if your "Debian multimedia" above means "debian-multimedia.org", > please keep in mind that *IS NOT* Debian. > Mediainfo looks a good can

Bug#654185: ITP: libzen -- ZenLib C++ utility library

2012-01-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: libzen Version : 0.4.23 Upstream Author : MediaArea.net SARL * URL : http://zenlib.sf.net * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C++ Description : ZenLib C++ utility library ZenLib

Bug#654235: ITP: libmediainfo -- library reading metadata from media files

2012-01-02 Thread Chow Loong Jin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chow Loong Jin * Package name: libmediainfo Version : 0.7.52 Upstream Author : MediaArea.net SARL * URL : http://mediainfo.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : library reading metadata

Re: zram Usage as Default in Debian (?)

2012-01-07 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 08/01/2012 01:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low RAM > machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the same > setup also on my other machines. I am wondering if anybody is investigating, > if de

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/01/2012 08:25, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 11:08:56AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Paul Wise wrote: >>> Sounds like he was asking you to name these new 32-bit only x86 >>> systems that are still being produced and sold. >> >> Buying a nice new 64bit s

Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/01/2012 12:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: pxz > Version : 4.999.9beta.20091201git > Upstream Author : Jindřich Nový > * URL or Web page : http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/pxz/ + > https://github.com/jnovy/pxz > * License

Re: Bug#655185: RFP: pxz -- parallel xz compressor

2012-01-08 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 09/01/2012 13:16, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Chow Loong Jin wrote: >>> Parallel XZ is a compression utility that takes advantage of running >>> LZMA compression of different parts of an input file on multiple cores >>> and processors simultaneously

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