Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: ha-prosper Version : 4.21 Upstream Author : Hendri Adriaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/Downloads/haprosper.html * License : L

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Prokop
* Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050313 00:37]: > Le samedi 12 mars 2005 à 23:44 +0100, Michael Prokop a écrit : > > * Package name: ha-prosper > > Version : 4.21 > > Upstream Author : Hendri Adriaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > *

Bug#299257: ITP: xkeyval -- extension of the keyval package

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xkeyval Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Hendri Adriaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://stuwww.uvt.nl/~hendri/Downloads/xkeyval.html * License : LaTeX Pr

Re: Bug#299242: ITP: ha-prosper -- improved LaTeX class for writing transparencies

2005-03-13 Thread Michael Prokop
* Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20050313 18:15]: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Michael Prokop wrote: > > I think replacing the prosper-package with ha-prosper wouldn't be > > a good choice. I'd like to provide ha-prosper in a separate > > package > >

Bug#312660: ITP: shish -- the diet shell

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: shish Version : 0.7-pre3 Upstream Author : Roman Senn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.blah.ch/shish/ * License : GPL Description : the diet she

Bug#383191: ITP: iwatch -- realtime filesystem monitoring program using inotify

2006-08-15 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: iwatch Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Cahya Wirawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/iwatch * License : GPL Description : realtime filesystem monitoring program using inotify

use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-22 Thread Michael Prokop
Hello, this issue has been discussed some time ago: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00299.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00298.html I would like to hear your current opinion about this topic. IMHO removing a package should "just work" and currently this

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> inside their prerm maintainer scripts. If stopping $PACKAGE through >> invoke-rc.d/init-script fails, removing the package fails as well. >> Using: >> invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || true >> /etc/init.d/$PACKAGE stop || true > We are using chroot

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Prokop wrote: >> How do you achieve that? For example symlinking invoke-rc.d to >> /bin/true is a workaround, but I'm searching for a general solution >> to avoid that daemons are started when upgrading even t

Re: use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in prerm scripts

2006-05-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20060523 21:59]: > On Tue, 23 May 2006, Michael Prokop wrote: > > way of life, I'd just like to make sure that removing packages > > always works. > If you are going to ignore a failing initscript in order to remove a

Bug#319383: ITP: minised -- a smaller, cheaper, faster SED implementation

2005-07-21 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: minised Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Rene Rebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.exactcode.de/oss/minised/ * License : GPL Description : a smal

Bug#536493: ITP: xmount -- tool to crossmount between multiple input and output image files

2009-07-10 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: xmount Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Gillen Daniel * URL : https://www.pinguin.lu/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : tool to crossmount between multiple input

Re: Is Ayman Negm MIA?

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Prokop
[Cc-ing Ayman] Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 07:46, Rince wrote: >> Ayman Negm is the maintainer of, among others, the gddrescue package. >> The package hasn't been touched by him since 2006, and several bugs >> about it have required NMUs by other people. > Ayman is been tracked

Bug#551809: ITP: stressapptest -- stress test application for simulating high load situations

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: stressapptest Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Nick Sanders + Rapahel Menderico (Google Inc) * URL : http://code.google.com/p/stressapptest/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C

Bug#440279: ITP: op -- sudo like controlled privilege escalation

2007-08-31 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: op Version : 1.32 Upstream Author : Alec Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://swapoff.org/wiki/op * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Descriptio

Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is expected to fix many longstanding problems. It would be great if we could receive feedback from testers. The new release is available from Debian/unstable and

Re: Call for Testing: initramfs-tools 0.97

2010-06-29 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joachim Wiedorn [Sun Jun 27, 2010 at 05:03:02PM +0200]: > Michael Prokop wrote on 2010-06-18 23:48: > > we - the initramfs-tools maintainers in Debian - want to provide a > > solid initramfs-tools version for squeeze. The new release 0.97 is > > expected to fix many long

Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-16 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. I plan to drop the ddrescue package. Background: ddrescue provides the dd_rescue binary, gddrescue provides the ddrescue binary. As you might notice this is far from a perfect situation and confuses users. * ddrescue = http://www.g

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Luca Capello [Thu Feb 17, 2011 at 12:05:18AM +0100]: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:17:58 +0100, Michael Prokop wrote: > > I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. > > I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > [...] > > I'd like to get rid of th

Re: Request for Comments: Planned removal of ddrescue

2011-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Antonio Diaz Diaz [Fri Feb 18, 2011 at 05:58:22PM +0100]: > Michael Prokop wrote: >> I'm the maintainer of the ddrescue and gddrescue packages. >> I plan to drop the ddrescue package. > IMHO dropping the gddrescue package and moving GNU ddrescue to the > ddrescue pa

"Debian is switching to EGLIBC"

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Prokop
| Debian is switching to EGLIBC | | I have just uploaded Embedded GLIBC (EGLIBC) into the archive (it is | currently waiting in the NEW queue), which will soon replace the GNU | C Library (GLIBC). | [...] -- http://blog.aurel32.net/?p=47 Where did this decission (and the discussion around it) t

Re: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC"

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 06 mai 2009 =C3=A0 18:18 +0200, Michael Prokop a =C3=A9crit : >> Where did this decission (and the discussion around it) took place? >> I can't find anything neither on debian-devel nor on debian-devel-glibc. > Do all maintainers ne

Re: "Debian is switching to EGLIBC"

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Prokop
* Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Michael Prokop a écrit : >> * Josselin Mouette wrote: >>> Le mercredi 06 mai 2009 =C3=A0 18:18 +0200, Michael Prokop a =C3=A9crit : >>>> Where did this decission (and the discussion around it) took place? >>>> I can't find

Bug#531077: ITP: anytun -- secure anycast tunneling protocol

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: anytun Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Othmar Gsenger, Erwin Nindl, Christian Pointner * URL : http://www.anytun.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : secure

Bug#531082: ITP: uanytun -- tiny implementation of the secure anycast tunneling protocol

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: uanytun Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Christian Pointner * URL : http://www.anytun.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : tiny implementation of the secure

Bug#757193: ITP: libnumber-phone-perl -- base class for parsing and dealing with phone numbers

2014-08-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: libnumber-phone-perl Version : 3.0001 Upstream Author : David Cantrell * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~dcantrell/Number-Phone-3.0001/ * License : Artistic / GPLv2 Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#671517: ITP: carton -- Perl module dependency manager (aka Bundler for Perl)

2012-05-04 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: carton Version : 0.9.5+git8e653 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : https://github.com/miyagawa/carton * License : GPL-1+ or Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Packaging on GitHub ?

2012-05-27 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thomas Goirand [Sun May 27, 2012 at 11:52:27PM +0800]: > On 05/27/2012 02:42 PM, olivier sallou wrote: > > Keeping an updated mirror is not a good method for me, it is a painful > > task and you are never sure of the status > Isn't it possible to keep this repo up-to-date using > some of th

Re: Bug#727708: tech-ctte: Decide which init system to default to in Debian.

2013-10-31 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thorsten Glaser [Thu Oct 31, 2013 at 01:27:12PM +0100]: > On Thu, 31 Oct 2013, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Curiously, a lot of system administrators do not do this correctly > > using sysvinit, causing system daemons to start unexpectedly after > > installing package updates. > What *is* the corr

Re: Bug#705954: ITP: ms-sys -- writes Microsoft compatible boot records

2013-04-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Joao Eriberto Mota Filho [Mon Apr 22, 2013 at 01:57:16PM -0300]: > * Package name: ms-sys > Version : 2.3.0 > Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist > * URL : http://ms-sys.sf.net > * License : GPL2 > Programming Lang: C > Description : writes Microsoft c

Join the #newinwheezy game

2013-04-29 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, according to UDD we've 4451 new source packages in Debian/wheezy[1]. Plenty of them are worth noting and a good way to present the interesting new packages to our users could be if package maintainers/teams just write about them. Would be nice if we get something similar to the dpl game up a

Re: Bug#736416: ITP: debci -- continuous integration system for Debian

2014-01-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* Antonio Terceiro [Thu Jan 23, 2014 at 10:08:25AM -0300]: > * Package name: debci > Version : 0.4.0 > Upstream Author : Antonio Terceiro > * URL : http://ci.debian.net/ > * License : GPL-3 > Programming Lang: Mostly POSIX Shell. a little bit of (or a rewrite

Bug#746653: ITP: libcatalyst-plugin-email-perl -- module to send emails with Catalyst

2014-05-02 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Owner: Debian Perl Group Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libcatalyst-plugin-email-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Sebastian Riedel * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Cata

Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-21 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, Christian Hofstaedtler prepared a stable update for procps regarding #632749 (with ACK from Craig as the procps maintainer and from Adam from the release team - Cc-ing both of them therefore FYI). While reviewing the package I noticed an interesting bug, causing procps in squeeze to have an a

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Cyril Brulebois [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 12:02:17PM +0200]: > Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > > 1) What's the proper way to address this issue in squeeze? > >a) Build a i386 package with broken symlink? > >b) Build whatever-arch package with working symlink? >

Re: Buildd vs. Cowbuilder: broken symlink in procps dev package on one architecture

2011-08-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Adam D. Barratt [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 07:11:08PM +0100]: > On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 12:19 +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > > * Cyril Brulebois [Mon Aug 22, 2011 at 12:02:17PM +0200]: > > > Michael Prokop (22/08/2011): > > > > 1) What's the proper way to address

Join the #newinjessie game

2015-04-24 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, I'm repeating what I did with the #newinwheezy game for the wheezy release[1] now for the Debian/jessie release (jey!). According to UDD we've 4841 new source packages in Debian/jessie[2]. A list of the source packages expanded with maintainer names is available at well[3]. Plenty of those p

Re: Handling of entropy during boot

2019-01-10 Thread Michael Prokop
* Raphael Hertzog [Thu Jan 10, 2019 at 12:24:45PM +0100]: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2019, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > > Pointers, please? Let's see them and investigate. The primary issue > > I've been aware of to date has been on Fedora systems, and it's due to > > some Red Hat specific changes that they

Bug#919692: ITP: golang-github-leodido-ragel-machinery -- Machineries for development of ragel parsers

2019-01-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: golang-github-leodido-ragel-machinery Version : 0.0~git20181214.299bdde-1 Upstream Author : Leo Di Donato * URL : https://github.com/leodido/ragel-machinery * License : MIT/Expat

Re: [RFC] locking down rsyslog.service

2023-10-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl [Tue Oct 10, 2023 at 08:22:26PM +0200]: > I intend to lock down rsyslog.service in Debian in one of the next > uploads using the following systemd directives That's great to hear, thanks for working on this. > PrivateTmp=yes > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/syst

Re: [RFC] locking down rsyslog.service

2023-10-16 Thread Michael Prokop
* Michael Biebl [Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 12:14:47PM +0200]: > Am 11.10.23 um 08:03 schrieb Simon Richter: > > On 10/11/23 03:22, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > > > I intend to lock down rsyslog.service in Debian in one of the next > > > uploads using the following systemd directives > > > > > CapabilityB

Epoch version for golang-github-gomodule-redigo-dev?

2020-11-26 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, we have a rather unfortunate situation with the golang-github-gomodule-redigo-dev package, see #974550 for the details. tl;dr: upstream released v2.0.0 on 2018-03-14, though went downwards with version numbers afterwards and we're at v1.8.3 for the latest upstream release now. In Debian we cu

Re: Epoch version for golang-github-gomodule-redigo-dev?

2020-12-02 Thread Michael Prokop
* Clément Hermann [Thu Nov 26, 2020 at 02:19:38PM +0100]: > On 26/11/2020 09:31, Paul Gevers wrote: > > As it seems not unreasonable to expect the upstream version to go past > > 2.0.0 in the not infinite future, this is the approach I would take. > > Because you ask here, it suggests to me that d

Re: MariaDB 10.11 in Bookworm - call for contributions

2023-02-24 Thread Michael Prokop
* Thomas Goirand [Fri Feb 24, 2023 at 04:00:43PM +0100]: > On 2/23/23 17:22, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > I am currently preparing the upload of MariaDB 10.11.2-2 to Debian > > unstable and aim for the highest possible quality. I am currently > > doing the bulk of the testing and packaging alone and

Bug#960920: ITP: libanyevent-forkmanager-perl -- simple parallel processing fork manager with AnyEvent

2020-05-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: libanyevent-forkmanager-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Kenta Sato * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/AnyEvent-ForkManager * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#960921: ITP: libtest-sharedobject-perl -- Data sharing in multi processes

2020-05-18 Thread Michael Prokop
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Prokop * Package name: libtest-sharedobject-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Kenta Sato * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-SharedObject * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Re: apt-get upgrade removing ifupdown on jessie→stretch upgrade

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Prokop
* David Kalnischkies [Wed Feb 22, 2017 at 10:28:33PM +0100]: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:04:16PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > ...it will break existing practices, e.g.: > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get upgrade -y > > FYI, I would call it a regression. > That specific invocation can

Re: Known issues with automatic dbgsym packages (Was: Automatic dbgsym packages built by default as of today!)

2015-12-22 Thread Michael Prokop
* Lars Wirzenius [Tue Dec 22, 2015 at 06:36:55PM +0100]: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:35:05AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * reprepro rejects upload with automatic debug symbols as it does not > >support them yet[1]. (#730572) > >- Workaround #1: Build with --no-ddebs / DEB_BUILD_OPTI

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Stephan Seitz [Fri Jan 08, 2016 at 11:18:41AM +0100]: > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:11:07AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >grml is packaged and is an apt-get away. It's third-party in just the > >same way that the linux kernel, or exim are. > Wrong. You have a wrapper package that adds grml is

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-08 Thread Michael Prokop
* Ian Campbell [Fri Jan 08, 2016 at 10:22:01AM +]: > On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 10:11 +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 10:21:00AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > The upside of this is that this will free up space in / which will be > > > needed for a dedicated recovery imag

Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Michael Prokop
Hi, here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes that systemd received since its version 215-17+deb8u4 (the one available from jessie) you might wanna give it a try. The backport is based on what will be

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Michael Prokop
* Brian [Tue Jul 05, 2016 at 08:16:34PM +0100]: > On Tue 05 Jul 2016 at 20:46:07 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. [...] > > Are you aware of