Bug#527116: ITP: libdevel-findref-perl -- Perl module to track a reference to the variables containing them

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libdevel-findref-perl Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Marc Lehmann * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to track a reference

Bug#527167: ITP: libtest-number-delta-perl -- Perl module to check equality of numbers within a given tolerance

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libtest-number-delta-perl Version : 1.03 Upstream Author : David A. Golden * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to check

Bug#527178: ITP: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl -- Perl module implementing RFC 2553's getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libsocket-getaddrinfo-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl/C Description : Perl module implementing

Bug#527180: ITP: libio-async-perl -- Perl module for implementing asynchronous filehandle I/O

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libio-async-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module for implementing

Bug#527183: ITP: libasync-mergepoint-perl -- Perl module to resynchronize and merge multiple control flows

2009-05-05 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libasync-mergepoint-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Paul Evans * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to resynchronize

Bug#528526: ITP: libvideo-fourcc-info-perl -- Retrieve information about a FourCC

2009-05-13 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libvideo-fourcc-info-perl Version : 1.1.5 Upstream Author : Jonathan Yu * URL : CPAN * License : PD Programming Lang: Perl Description : Retrieve information about a FourCC -- To

Bug#529239: ITP: libmoosex-traits-perl -- Perl module to apply roles at object creation time

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
retitle 529239 ITP: libmoosex-traits-perl -- Perl module to apply roles at object creation time thanks * Package name: libmoosex-traits-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jonathan Rockway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Traits/ * License : Artist

Bug#529240: ITP: libmoosex-types-set-object-perl -- Perl module providing a Set::Object type

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
retitle 529240 ITP: libmoosex-types-set-object-perl -- Perl module providing a Set::Object type thanks * Package name: libmoosex-types-set-object-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Types-Set-Object/ * License

Bug#529232: ITP: libcontext-preserve-perl -- Perl module to preserve calling context

2009-05-18 Thread Jonathan Yu
retitle 529232 ITP: libcontext-preserve-perl -- Perl module to preserve calling context thanks * Package name: libcontext-preserve-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Jonathan Rockway * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Context-Preserve/ * License : Artistic

Bug#529795: ITP: libfile-changenotify-perl -- Perl module to watch for changes to files

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libfile-changenotify-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to watch for

Bug#529813: ITP: libmoosex-semiaffordanceaccessor-perl -- Perl modules to generate accessors from attributes

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libmoosex-semiaffordanceaccessor-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (GPL/Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl modules to

Bug#529812: ITP: libmoosex-params-validate-perl -- Perl module to validate Moose type parameters

2009-05-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libmoosex-params-validate-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (Artistic/GPL) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl module to validate

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
You know, this is probably a stupid question, but what's wrong with separating file patterns with newlines, as continuations? Files: a b c d e f g.* To me it looks more readable, no escaping or quotes are necessary, at the expense of being a bit more difficult to type than quoting (though defi

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
Since nobody seems to have noticed, I'd like to re-propose my idea for consideration: Files: a b c d e f (ie, using continuation lines to specify lists of files, rather than commas or anything else. No escaping necessary.) On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Giacomo A. Catena

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
sort of thing (read the Files, output a glob list which we can pass to ls). Cheers, Jonathan On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Jonathan Yu dijo [Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:35:56PM -0400]: >> Since nobody seems to have noticed, I'd like to re-propose my idea for >

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan Yu
ins wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:15 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> >> You know, this is probably a stupid question, but what's wrong with >> separating file patterns with newlines, as continuations? >> >> Files: a b >>  c >>  d e f >>  g.*

Re: DEP 5 and directory/file names with spaces

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan Yu
In my defense, you don't mention how many filenames have newlines (my estimate is zero.) But IANADD so do what you want :-) On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:11:09PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> vor...@gluck> cd /srv/lintian.debian.org/laborator

Bug#532513: ITP: libextutils-pkgconfig-perl -- Perl interface to the pkg-config utility

2009-06-09 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libextutils-pkgconfig-perl Version : 1.12 Upstream Author : Torsten Schönfeld * URL : CPAN * License : Perl (GPL/Artistic) Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl interface to the

Re: Bug#532532: ITP: libacme-progressbar-perl -- Perl module providing a s simple progress bar

2009-06-11 Thread Jonathan Yu
+1 to Peter's post. This is insightful. I, for one, think that Acme:: modules shouldn't even get packaged at all, unless they're a prerequisite of a serious package -- like Acme::Damn was picked up by some other module as a dependency. Sometimes, Acme:: modules are useful (like ::Damn) -- beyond

Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Yu * Package name: libalien-libjio-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Jonathan Yu * URL : CPAN * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: Perl Description : Perl package to find libjio This module

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
Brian: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:14:29PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> This module is a generic Perl module that is designed to install libjio if it >> is not installed, and then report the flags required for programs t

Re: Bug#532932: ITP: libalien-libjio-perl -- Perl package to find libjio

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Yu
n these lists first - debian-devel and debian-perl) to get some clarification on this. Thanks :-) Jonathan On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Ryan Niebur wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 07:29:40PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: >> Brian: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, bri

Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Jonathan Yu
Maybe we can offer something via debconf during installation to ask users if they'd like non-root users to access dumpcap. But I guess the question there is to determine how to provide access to dumpcap (there were some great ideas discussed above). Having the GUI run as non-root sounds like a gre

Architectures (Operating Systems and CPU Architectures)

2009-06-25 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi everyone: I'm mailing this to both debian-policy and debian-devel, because I'd like to get the perspective from both sides -- the policy one, and the "in practice" thinking. Currently architectures are defined as a string which contains two parts, an operating system name, and a microprocessor

Re: Architectures (Operating Systems and CPU Architectures)

2009-06-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Russ and Steve: Thank you both for your replies. I'm going to have to spend some time considering what you have both said, and try to devise a clever way of representing the platform information. In terms of maintainability I don't think I have much of a problem there, since I'm using a Perl scri

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler than handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Marc, On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > Why would one use such a tool? passphraseless keys exist, and can be > configured to be secure. > This sounds interesting. Do you have a link to some documentation on this technique? Jonathan

Re: Bug#756172: ITP: ssh-cron -- cron-like job scheduler than handles ssh key passphrases

2014-07-27 Thread Jonathan Yu
Sorry for the double-post. Upon reflection, it looks like I was asking about information about passphraseless keys -- I was curious about the latter part, how they can be configured to be secure. On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Jonathan Yu wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 a

Re: Target path variables in debian/rules

2012-06-01 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Ole Wolf wrote: > However, I don't know how to specify the target path for the man pages, > which I've tentatively indicated by ${mandir} in the above snippet. I'm > not using autoconf, which seems to set some path variables. > This may only be a partial hel

Re: running a program from debian/tmp

2012-02-16 Thread Jonathan Yu
For some value of easy... I think most people who work with Debian packages on a regular basis use a chroot environment to build and install packages. Several similar programs can be used for this: pbuilder (and the faster copy-on-write variant, cowbuilder) and sbuild are the ones I've used in the

Re: debian/rules VS debian/copyright.

2012-03-21 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Mike, On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Mike Mestnik wrote: > I say one can easily split technical > and legal responsibility without the need for any gray lines. > While I am certainly not opposed to your idea in principle - that everyone has something to contribute (including non-programmers

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi, On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:17 PM, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell < johnandsa...@cox.net> wrote: > I thought on Gnu site if you get and compile the compiler it already has a > test suite, for C anyway (i have not tried it personally). > He mentions in the message that he's looking for

Re: DEP5 public-domain Question

2011-07-26 Thread Jonathan Yu
Hi Dominique, > To satisfy DEP5 model constraints, you need to spell out the terms of the > licence you want to use. Etheir as a "License: public-domain" stand-alone > section or as text in the File section (after the License: line in the file > section). Does that mean that License: PD won't wor

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