Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-09 Thread Johannes
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Open sourcing certain firmware might make it easier for 'random script >> kid' to just try some things out and accidentally causing problems to >> innocent bystanders. > > How is this different from ope

salt removed from mirror

2024-08-09 Thread Johannes Drexl
Hello everyone, I tried to install a system with Debian 11 and a preseed file today from our internal mirror and found out that the package salt-minion was gone. After some research (our mirror snapshots every day) I found out that between 2024-06-29 02:00 and 2024-06-30 02:00 the whole salt direc

Re: salt removed from mirror

2024-08-09 Thread Johannes Drexl
Am Freitag, dem 09.08.2024 um 15:27 +0100 schrieb Simon McVittie: > Caution: This is an external sender. Please take care when clicking > links or opening attachments. When in doubt, contact the IT > Department > >   > > On Fri, 09 Aug 2024 at 13:31:02 +, Johannes D

Bug#278288: ITP: python-gtkmvc -- Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation for pygtk

2004-10-25 Thread Johannes Jordens
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-gtkmvc Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation fo

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-11-09 Thread Johannes Rohr
have been some changes recently, at least in the de locale package. The other two (eu and tr) should be removed from testing unless there is an updated langpack available elsewhere. Eric: Should we upload with priority=high to be ready for Sarge ASAP? Will you upload 1.0? Thanks, Johannes

Re: Help offered 2 - opinion wanted about debian.org

2006-10-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
more those that fail to render correctly when I manually increase the font size.) Thanks to the maintainers of the present site. They do an excellent job! Just my opinion, Johannes NB: This doesn't mean that the pages cannot be improved. I guess one could add to the documentation and introd

Re: Progress report on CodeFestAkihabara, macbook Debian installation experience

2006-11-21 Thread Johannes Muelmenstaedt
d it on an amd64 machine? Thanks, Johannes > Hi, > > > > > Worst case: You have to abuse the firmware update released to facilitate > > Boot camp, and have that boot normal lilo. > > Perhaps not as nice as having EFI boot a bootload, or running a bootloader > &g

pmount-hal hald and acl for storage media

2006-06-20 Thread Johannes Zellner
Hello, shouldn't pmount-hal & hald respect something like true or true for removable storage devices for example? I'm not sure which would be the correct one. Anyway, apparently there's currently no way to get removable devices with acl mounted by hald. Any com

Bug#4498: Debian-1.1.8 Bootdisk Problem

1996-09-17 Thread Johannes Moeckel
cause of this many modules are missing... Joe -- ---- |Johannes Moeckel * I am Pentium of Borg ! Division is futile ! | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] You will be approximated! --<--<-@ This mail | |Scall: 01681-1448005 * is air

Re: [mass bug filing?] Short descriptions being used as long descriptions and other policy violations

2003-06-24 Thread Johannes Rohr
ffensive ways. I would e.g. tell them that a nice description might motivate more people to use and install your package. And BTW: Thanks, Johannes

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
t (desktop) users. Finally, why don't I just sid? Because I enjoy the silence, when finally my laptop migrates to stable and the frequency of upgrades goes down by orders of magnitude 8-) and then my laptop breaks and I have to buy a new one :-( (I'm not a programmer

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-03 22:26, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 03 juin 2008 à 21:06 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : >> As I've understood it so far, testing is for 'people trying to help the >> developers by testing the softw

Re: Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ee on that. My point is that it is probably not a good idea to tag a piece of software as 'obsolete', when it will quite likely reappear after a few days. Others have pointed out that despite the bugs, update-* was not unusable and still useful. Thanks for your patience and readin

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
This is true even if the imperfect package has an avoidable >> publicized security bug. > > This user should use unstable. sound arrogant. Thanks, Johannes [1] search +testing +lenny on http://lists.debian.org/search.html take the 1000th message as a measure how long it takes to

Re: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 16:11, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > [1] search +testing +lenny on The searches were performed without the '+' to have 'testing or lenny' etc. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Bug#484009: removed bugs are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
nome-cups-manager > update-manager > update-notifier > libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a Johannes [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484009 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIRrEUC1NzPRl9qEURAjhmAJ93OUKZSrXRoK9RUo7zgj6d/OarcACfc6o6 0

Re: Bug#484009: removed packages are marked as 'obsolete'

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 20:34, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 04 juin 2008 à 17:13 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich a écrit : >>> update-manager >>> update-notifier > > Update-manager *does* have an unfixed RC bug, and the GNOME t

Re: Bug#484009: Bug#484129: release.debian.org: packages in tasks should be fixed in priority and removed in last resort after discussion

2008-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
offence! I very much appreciate the generally *excellent* work of the DDs and the release team! Thanks a lot for producing such a wonderful distribution! Thanks to all!!! (I can't stress THIS too much!) Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFI

bug closed by $p4m mail?

2008-07-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ave been running a test over about a week to check whether the problem still occurs with the version in lenny. It seems the bug can either be closed or at least the severity could be lowered by now. ] Thanks in advance! Johannes [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: bug closed by $p4m mail?

2008-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-03 08:58, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > For unarchiving and un-closing, use the control bot > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I didn't know about the 'unarchive' command. Thanks, everything is fine now! Johannes -BEGIN PGP S

Re: Running a 32bits on debian amd64 system

2009-07-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ist is chosen (debian-user or debian-amd64 in this case). Please also search the list's archives. Cheers, Johannes http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Bug#538853: ITP: scitools -- Python library for scientific computing

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Ring
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: scitools Version: 0.6 Upstream authors: Hans Petter Langtangen, Johannes H. Ring, Ilmar Wilbers, and Rolv E. Bredesen URL: http://scitools.googlecode.com/ License: BSD Description: Python library for

Bug#538854: ITP: swiginac -- Python interface to GiNaC

2009-07-27 Thread Johannes Ring
with SWIG. The aim of swiginac is to make all the functionality of GiNaC accessible from Python as an extension module. I have already prepared Debian files for swiginac and the package is currently available from the private repository located at http://packages.simula.no. Regards, Johannes

Re: #545996: please inform submitters they need to subs cribe

2009-09-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
terface. I don't blame this on the developers though, because I happen to forget to set the right cc's or to's of a mail rather to often myself. I think the BTS should make it as simple as possible to 'do the right thing', ie. keep the maintainer and the rep

Bug#409405: ITP: quadkonsole -- QuadKonsole embeds Konsole kparts in a grid layout.

2007-02-02 Thread Johannes Ranke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Ranke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: quadkonsole Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Programm

Thanks to the developers

2007-04-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mong its users. Keep debian simple, stable and universal; keep out of the hype! Stay firm on debian's design principles and the social contract; keep up the great work! Take my humble thanks for making my computers work great -- they wouldn't work as good and as smoothly without Deb

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
n of how many people use debian (successfully) on what type of laptop/hardware, even though that information is no substitute to tuxmobil.org or www.linux-laptop.net. For laptops brand/model would be nice, although it probably will be difficult or impossible to include that in an automated fashion

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ware information and correlating this information with that from logfiles at security.debian.org would improve the reliability of the present data of popcon significantly. Also with regard to privacy we shouldn't aim at a perfect counting system, but as far as the estimates can be improved, they sho

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Presently the number of installations reported to popcon is about the >> same as the number of subscriptions to debian-security-announce, but I >> am sure there are many users of debian who don't read d-s-a a

Re: Available papersizes vs. default papersizes

2008-08-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
be used as default size on a particular system. If you'd like to use a different default, how difficult is the implementation for the user/administrator of the box in question? > Do you have any suggestions? I forwarded your question to d-u. Maybe some 'users' over there have

Re: Should the X packages pre-depend on awk?

2008-08-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469552 I have already reassigned and merged accordingly. ;-) Johannes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Annoying GTK2 file dialogue - where to file the BUG?

2008-08-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 08/09/2008 03:12 PM, Rudi Effe wrote: [snip] > (4) missing eyecandiness: grey and simple icons, no rounded corners, > dominating dark grey, low percentage of area used for content/ > information (too much frame). Install gtk-qt-engine and configure it from control centre.

Re: Amarok: SECURITY ISSUE in Debian Etch and Lenny

2008-08-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ng at that bug report tells me: it's already fixed. If you are not content with this or would like to provide additional information you are welcome to report to the bug, but please not to d-d. Regards, Johannes signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-09-18 19:19, Robert Lemmen wrote: > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: Where is it already discussed? At least not on d-d, as far as I can see/find... Thanks, Johannes NB: Google finds only some ubuntu discussions for me... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digi

Re: #500000 24 Sep 2008 07:51:01 UTC :)

2008-09-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
66786 (2) Sum resolved: 7637 --- (1-2) Sum open: 59149 I am sure there are better ways of analysing this, but for today I'll have to leave this to someone else... Cheers, Johannes (These are the summary sections of the search results for "Select bugs:

Bug#502980: ITP: ffc -- compiler for finite element variational forms

2008-10-21 Thread Johannes Ring
. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503072: ITP: ufc -- unified code generation interface for form-compilers

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503074: ITP: ferari -- optimizations for evaluation of variational forms

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
rearrangement to automatically reduce instructions) generates optimized code for evaluation of the element tensor (element stiffness matrix) and functions as an optimizing backend for FFC. A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To

Bug#503077: ITP: fiat -- tabulation of finite element function spaces

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503079: ITP: instant -- simple inlining of C / C++ code in Python

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
Instant is a Python module that allows for instant inlining of C and C++ code in Python. It is a small Python module built on top of SWIG and Distutils. A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#503082: ITP: dolfin -- C++/Python library for solving differential equations

2008-10-22 Thread Johannes Ring
, Octave, MATLAB, Diffpack, Exodus II A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#503264: ITP: viper -- minimalistic scientific plotter and run-time visualization module

2008-10-23 Thread Johannes Ring
input formats o Can be used as standalone plotting application, or used as part of PyDOLFIN A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#503265: ITP: fenics -- automation of computational mathematical modeling

2008-10-23 Thread Johannes Ring
, including DOLFIN, FErari, FFC, FIAT, Instant, Ko, Puffin, SyFi, UFC and Viper. A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes Ring -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ore the DSA is out and patched packages are available... Again that's not to say that closed source guarantees security. But maybe it helps in certain cases. Just my 2ct, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://en

Re: Leverage in licensing discussions

2008-11-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
both agree that it would be nice to see as much free software as possible. I'm just concerned that 'real life' is sometimes a bit more complicated than an ideal world. ;-) Debian rules! Free software for everyone! At least on the computer. Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: DFSG violations in Lenny: Summarizing the choices

2008-11-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
e firmware 'hard wired' to the chip, since the latter case makes upgrades much more cumbersome for the user. By sticking to the social contract in the present form, debian pushes hardware vendors in the opposite direction (firmware on the chip) and thus will make it more difficult f

Re: Popular packages in Ubuntu that is missing in Debian/main

2008-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
dditional DRM meant to allow only two printouts of the pdf and invalidating the pdf after 30 days. (The pdf requires a proprietary plugin within acroread, IMHO has some serious security flaws, e.g. crashing on amd64, but what could I do? ). Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Free solutions for PDF annotations/shared reviews

2008-12-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
k and see what > happens. Look at okular. It's in lenny. HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkk1IK8ACgkQC1NzPRl9qEXYowCaA088Ft90LmRrYWMcUFW1o9gc lQgAnRG1YwsYsxCG7cG

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ith a constantly unfrozen unstable, this would not be an > issue. With a faster fixing of RC bugs and a faster release, all this would not be an issue. Cheers, Johannes - -- speaking as a user, who believes that debian's way is close to perfect for _both_ stability and new software. Th

Re: problems with the concept of unstable -> testing

2008-12-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
e core programs I use warrant an upgrade to testing. However, I would not like to 'indefinitely' cut off a route to 'stable' for my desktop(s). Of course, your mileage may vary... ;-) Cheers, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: U

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
its purpose after Joss' post, here and > elsewhere, mistaking d-d-a for d-a. No doubt, the harm would have been bigger, if it had been posted to d-a instead. But even then some would argue that it's not so bad, because it could have been even worse... Cheers, Johannes [1] http://list

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Thursday 18 December 2008 16:37:38 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : >>The point is it was an 'announcement' and it >> was perceived as inappropriate (not only

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ile. It's a pity that this grand old lady of an operating system and serious software is being dragged into the aura of these immature ramblings. JMHO, Johannes [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faux_pas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Friday 19 December 2008 01:04:05 Johannes Wiedersich, vous avez écrit : >> Joss, it is disappointing that after all that time since your faux pas >> [1], you still seem to fail to understand that what migh

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Loïc Minier wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> What slightly upsets me about the issue is not what happened, but rather >> that the French appear so arrogant as to think what happened on a world >> wide

Re: Josselin Mouette and Planet Debian

2008-12-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
just trying to explain it [1]. Johannes [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00785.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklLdDEACgkQC1NzPRl9qEVgmACdHhpkda/oxMbcB

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
#x27; with some nat translation and/or local proxie? (I'm thinking of computer labs, companies, etc. not just the odd home user). Essentially all of the computers at our department share the same public IP. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment:

Bug#584222: ITP: vmtk -- the Vascular Modeling Toolkit

2010-06-02 Thread Johannes Ring
collection of libraries and tools for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation and surface data analysis for image-based modeling of blood vessels. I would like to maintain it under the Debian Science umbrella. Regards, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

PROPOSAL: debian-mozilla@lists.debian.org (was: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR)

2004-10-08 Thread Johannes Rohr
any comments & opinions, Johannes

Re: PROPOSAL: debian-mozilla@lists.debian.org

2004-10-11 Thread Johannes Rohr
have something like a mozilla packaging policy, just like the existing Debian GNOME packaging policy. Stuff like this could be discussed on a prospective debian-mozilla list. Thanks, Johannes

Re: PROPOSAL: debian-mozilla@lists.debian.org

2004-10-11 Thread Johannes Rohr
maintainership, like e.g. practiced by Debian's GNOME team. However, this was not what I had in mind when I made my proposal. I simply would like to have a forum to discuss common issues related to packaging mozilla-related software. Thanks, Johannes

Re: Transitioning to Mozilla Firefox 1.0PR

2004-10-14 Thread Johannes Rohr
orted development release of firefox or dump the not-yet-updated locale packages instead? Personally I'd rather have mozilla-firefox-locale-de removed from Sarge in order to get Firefox 1.0 in! The localization can still be installed through firefox' extension manager anyway. Thanks, Johannes

Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
time number reaches 1234567890 seconds. [1] Cheers, Johannes [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

[OT] prime numbers was Re: Release update: deep freeze, planned dates, and remaining bugs

2009-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
890 $[1234567890+3600]); \ do factor $i; done |grep ": 12345" |wc shows that there are 163 prime numbers within the hour after 1234567890. On the other hand, there have been a few announcements to celebrate 1234567890. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-r

Re: [renamed] Debian crda?

2009-03-25 Thread Johannes Berg
(by combining the two pieces > upstream splits) as show by Fedora also choosing that route. > > Luis why can't CRDA and regd simply be released in same tarball considering > they have such a strong relationship with eachother due to the openssl stuff? I thought regdb was supp

Bug#524009: ITP: ufl -- unified language for form-compilers

2009-04-14 Thread Johannes Ring
UFL as their end-user interface, producing UFC implementations as their output. A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Bug#528633: ITP: syfi -- finite element engine based on symbolic mathematics

2009-05-14 Thread Johannes Ring
that it implements many different finite elements. A version of the Debian files is already available in the pkg-scicomp Subversion repository. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Bug#534162: ITP: python-pyneo -- pyneo mobile stack: basis libraries

2009-06-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: python-pyneo Version : 1.13 Upstream Author : Michael Dietrich * URL : http://pyneo.org * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: Python Description : pyneo mobile stack: basis

Bug#534163: ITP: gsm0710muxd -- GSM 07.10 Multiplexer

2009-06-22 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: gsm0710muxd Version : 1.13 Upstream Author : Michael Dietrich * URL : http://pyneo.org * License : GPL2+ Programming Lang: C Description : GSM 07.10 Multiplexer pyneo mobile

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
attached to their documents does not render the process arbitrary. Sticking to government IDs is a simple *rule*, sticking to some more or less vague other proofs of identity was *arbitrary* [1]. Cheers, Johannes [1] I consider 'rule' an antonym of 'arbitrary'. The absence of

Re: Pedantry or clearness

2009-06-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ry day. If all this information is duplicated on the developer's list, noone will be able to help with any problems, since everybody spends all day reading mails. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ore control than simple ID checks and you want to kill open source? > We have higher level of security/trustiness, but please don't > destroy the real man, who do the real job: the upstreams. I don't think that this was the intention of Steve's mail. Cheers, Johannes

Re: [Debconf-discuss] GPG keysigning?

2009-06-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
they will sue you in Switzerland or in other countries. It is true that the internet and computing have made it easier to commit crimes across borders (and to blur the evidence). IMHO that does not imply that debian should stop 'conventional' ID checks in addition to other means o

possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, we would like to propose an MBF with severity wishlist to drop unused build dependencies in a number of source packages indicated by the attached two text files and the dd-list output. TLDR; We searched a selection of source packages relevant to bootstrapping for build dependencies which are

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, sorry I attached two wrong files containing the many false positives already noticed by some of the replies. Here the actual results. Sorry. cheers, josch ==> apache2_2.4.9-1.arch-all.unusedbd.real <== libcap-dev:amd64=1:2.22-1.2 ==> apparmor_2.8.0-5.arch-all.unusedbd.real <== dejagnu=1.5-3

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Julian Taylor (2014-07-07 14:14:20) > There seem to be a bunch of false positives for virtual/metapackages: > > ==> python-numpy_1.8.1-1.arch-all.unusedbd <== > gfortran=4:4.8.2-4 > python-all-dbg=2.7.6-2 > python-all-dev=2.7.6-2 > python3-all-dbg=3.4.1~rc1-1 > python3-all-dev=3.4.1~r

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (2014-07-07 14:07:26) > Please don't assume that the unused build dependency is always where the > defect is. Rather, the MBF text should account for the possibility that the > unused build-dependency should have been used in the first place, but > somethin

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
and the updated dd-list Sorry for not having attached the right files in my initial email :( cheres, josch "Adam C. Powell, IV" mpi-defaults (U) Adam Conrad eglibc (U) freetds (U) Alan Woodland blcr Alessandro Ghedini curl valgrind Alessio Treglia gpac (U) Alexander

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Jérémy Lal (2014-07-07 14:12:19) > Consider also the case when arch:all package require a build dependency on a > package that only builds on some archs, to prevent the arch:all package being > available on archs where its dependencies are not. nodejs and node-* > packages are such an

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steve Langasek (2014-07-07 18:36:50) > There seem to still be some false positives here. pam is on the list because > of a build-dependency on libdb-dev, freetds and unixodbc are there because of > a build-dependency on libreadline-dev. Both of these are metapackages that > pull in v

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Don Armstrong (2014-07-07 20:33:37) > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Empty packages are not "detected". The first phase will find empty > > packages because they do not contain any files and thus they are > > detected as build dependenc

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steve Langasek (2014-07-07 20:22:42) > Ah. No, it only means that the package build does not *fail* if the > build-dependency is removed. That is not the same thing as saying that the > build-dependency is not used. you are correct. I expanded more on this in my other reply to Don A

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-07 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steve Langasek (2014-07-08 00:07:29) > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 09:14:44PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Nevertheless, those "false positives" that were generated this way are > > still useful to be later marked with once build profiles > > are allo

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steve Langasek (2014-07-07 20:22:42) > Ah. No, it only means that the package build does not *fail* if the > build-dependency is removed. That is not the same thing as saying that the > build-dependency is not used. > > It would of course be better if packages were resilient against

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-08 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Kurt Roeckx (2014-07-09 00:36:37) > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 01:51:00PM +0200, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx > >libtool > > ==> libtool_2.4.2-1.7.arch-all.unusedbd <== > gfortran=4:4.8.2-4 > > gfortran Depends on gfortran-4.8, and

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-09 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Maarten Lankhorst (2014-07-09 15:48:33) > ==> llvm-toolchain-3.4_3.4.1-4.arch-all.unusedbd.real <== > automake=1:1.14.1-3 > autotools-dev=20140510.1 > diffstat=1.58-1 > doxygen=1.8.7-1 > flex=2.5.39-7 > lcov=1.10-1 > libtool=2.4.2-1.7 > patchutils=0.3.3-1 > procps=1:3.3.9-5 > sharutils

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Jakub Wilk (2014-07-10 12:45:36) > * Johannes Schauer , 2014-07-09, 16:50: > >should build dependencies which the source package only requires after > >setting some DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS go into Build-Depends? > > Probably not, unless it's one of the optione

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Steve Langasek (2014-07-09 00:32:18) > But it absolutely does have this effect if we add bootstrap-specific metadata > unnecessarily, because: > > - it introduces a syntax incompatibility with older versions of the package >tools we are currently trying to get a minimal change t

Bug#754460: ITP: pdf2htmlex -- Converts PDF to HTML while retaining most formatting

2014-07-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: pdf2htmlex Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : WANG Lu * URL : http://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX * License : GPL3, MIT, CC-BY-3.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Converts

Bootstrapping also increases the package count (was: Re: Bug#754551: ITP: node-ms -- milliseconds conversion utility)

2014-07-12 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-07-12 19:19:16) > I'd really like to see us solve this problem by figuring out a better > metadata distribution system (and IIRC some progress was made on that > front recently) than in making life more difficult for packagers. which progress is that? With bootstra

Re: let missing-debian-source-format lintian tag be a warning!

2014-07-15 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Charles, Quoting Charles Plessy (2014-07-16 02:58:58) > viewed from the opposite side of the chain, I have the impression that in > most cases where I receive a report that package X does not build on > architecture Y, it is a pure waste of time, since that package has no user > base on that ar

Re: Bug#754513: ITP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2014-07-18 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Russ Allbery (2014-07-16 22:17:23) > Ben Hutchings writes: > > On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 12:47 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> It would be nice to have a reliable kernel interface for getting > >> randomness rather than relying on proper chroot configuration. > > There is such an interfac

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Johannes Schauer (2014-07-07 13:51:00) > we would like to propose an MBF with severity wishlist to drop unused build > dependencies in a number of source packages I fixed many of the previous false positives of build dependencies on meta packages (not the file contents of the p

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting gregor herrmann (2014-07-28 11:45:14) > > ==> libxml-parser-perl_2.41-1.arch-all.unusedbd <== > > sharutils=1:4.14-2 > > Already fixed in 2.41-2. thanks! > I assume you're planning to do a new run before actually filing the > bugs? I cannot do a new run before September because I'm

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, I cannot believe I attached the wrong list once again. My sincere apologies to fill up your inboxes like that :( Attached are the right files and dd-list Quoting Johannes Schauer (2014-07-28 11:34:24) > bison, ca-certificates, default-jdk, doxygen-latex, g++-4.8-multilib, > gcc-mu

Re: possible MBF: automatically detecting unused build dependencies

2014-07-28 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Scott Kitterman (2014-07-28 14:54:29) > It is quite common for people to fix things based on the initial discussion > about an impending MBF, so I think it would be less than impolite to not > acknowledge that by filing bugs on obsolete data. > > The two packages that I show up for ar

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2014-08-01 12:25:05) > > I want to understand purpose and syntax of this new field. > > The field was originally discussed in https://bugs.debian.org/619131 to > allow easier processing of packages that build arch-specific binaries > such as src:linux[1]. > > The ar

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-05 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Charles Plessy (2014-08-06 07:41:40) > what do you think about the patch I sent to the Policy, for describing the > syntax of the current optional fields of the Packages-List field ? Do you > think that modifications are needed ? Would you second it ? > > https://bugs.debian.org

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Johannes Schaffrath
it is placed clearly visible (in the first screen) then nobody will need a default desktop anymore. Greetings Johannes (debian user) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arc

Re: Bug#756835: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-11 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Matthias Urlichs (2014-08-07 07:54:26) > Also, "build profiles" are not explained anywhere in Policy (unless that's > been added after 3.9.5), so how would I discover which values are allowed / > make sense? right. For the purpose of documenting the Package-List its usage for build pr

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