Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:10 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > > This is true for the initial report. But you also ga

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing > > http://bugs.debian.org/src: ? > > A way for us to manage ou

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +, Ross Burton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > The simple fact that anyone having submitted a comment to a bug is > > > automatically added to the CC list for later comments is something that &g

Re: Problems packaging a kernel using cdbs

2007-03-16 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:50:14PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > I've seen some posts on debian-devel from a while back which indicates > some of you (Robert Millan) you've build a kernel using cdbs. I'm Perhaps I misunderstand, but can't you use kernel-pa

Re: co-mentor for a GSoC proposal wanted: debbugs web submission

2007-03-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:42:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Just try Bugzilla. Really. It has some major issu

Re: "Mozilla" plugins to depend upon virtual "mozilla-plugin-browser"?

2007-03-23 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n browsers would not be kept out. > What is the point? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
g bug triage in there would be a good thing. > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively > little time (sick family members). > I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat f

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > > > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* > > the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent > >

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t happens in the case (that was already pointed out) where a bug languishes without attention for a year or more, someone NMUs to fix the bug and the mainainer immediately uploads to revert the NMU? It seems that there needs to be some way to handle situations like that. Regards, -Roberto

Re: many rejects (Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007)

2007-03-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
been reported to work on mutt, and it failed here with kmail. > Is the crypt+sign mail format standard ? > The last vote (on the package upload rules) worked for me sending encrypted from mutt. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.c

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:35:52AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > > You might want to use ^K from inside mutt, instead. > Does that work if the key is attached or only for retrieving from a key server when a mail has been signed with a key not already in your key ring? Regards,

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
; > >just a willingness to help should the current maintainer be unable to > > >continue for some reason. > > an "understudy" or "standby" ? > Could we call it "co-maintainer" or something like that? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
way to optimize it? > Interesting. I have ~1600 packages installed on my development machine and I do not experience the slowness you talk about. It was installed about 3.5 years ago. How much RAM/CPU does the machine have? How fast are the disks? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto

Re: Slow package database

2007-03-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 04:11:46PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Friday 30 March 2007 15:43, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 03:39:29PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > > It appears like apt-get/aptitude/dpkg dealing with the list/database > > &g

Bug#416929: ITP: perl-doc-html -- Perl documentation suitable for viewing with a web browser

2007-03-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: perl-doc-html Version : 5.8.8 Upstream Author : Larry Wall, et. al. * URL : http://perldoc.perl.org/per

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

2007-04-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
mecases those are transparent to > the end users) > I think that is the principal problem. I use apt-proxy and have about a dozen machines (counting virtual machines) that all hit that one apt-proxy. I am not sure how best to solve that problem. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez htt

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
r even slower ISDN link) with an opteron, xeon, athlon64 or the like. I'm not saying that your situation is not possible, simply that trading size for compression/decompression time would benefit far more people than it would "hurt." Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánche

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

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:16:33AM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > > Yes, and some (like me) use a private mirror for internal use. But at > least we could estimate a lower count, which would be better, than the > "don't know" we currently have. > That ma

Re: Use bz2 not gz for orig.tar ?

2007-04-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 01:09:50PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:12:33AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Le jeudi 12 avril 2007 à 21:15 +0200, Robert Millan a écrit : > > >

Re: UNSUSCRIBE

2007-04-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:24:53AM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20.51:16 Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > > man procmailrc > > On gmail? > gmail does support POP. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http:

PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d via SSL. However, this causes other really annoying problems: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-openldap-devel/2007-April/001140.html Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ct? > "good or bad" depends on your goals for the configuration. > My goal is that it is secure. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PAM config and LDAP [WAS: Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)]

2007-05-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:39:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 06:19:34PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:49:40PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > It means that pam_unix is able to access your shadow hash on beh

Re: LDAP breaks kcheckpass when not setuid root (#298148)

2007-05-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the password. It is passing the > > > password over to the LDAP server (using an LDAP bind), and letting the > > > LDAP server decide if the password is correct or not. > > [Roberto C. Sánchez] > > You mean that the passwords go in the clear? > > Yes, unless you are

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
nobody forces you. > What if you are a one-time sponsor for a dozen packages? It seems like Nico's original gripe is valid. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
gt; > This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > > So the simple(r) option is "subscribe to pts". > Doesn't the key used to sign the upload tell you? Regards, -Robe

Re: Getting ftp-master mails as sponsor

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:18:11AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11013 March 1977, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > >> This would need a new field defined in some sane way and then get > >> enforced to use to make sense. And then the scripts can start using it. > &g

Re: Bug#422423: ITP: libtool-cvs -- Generic library support script - CVS snapshot

2007-05-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d then requires a security update, it would not be buildable in stable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: LDAP mail gateway and subkeys, RT ticket #70

2007-05-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ile the RT bug. However, I have experienced this problem. What can I do to help? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ething like (>= 1.0.1-1) and (<< 1.0.1-2) be more correct? That way the package is still binNMU safe and also safe from breaking if incompatibilities are introduced in the next source upload? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-14 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2007, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Your case is probably better handled with a simple higher-or-equal > > > dependency. > > > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:49:07PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:24:35AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Maybe I misunderstand, but wouldn't something like (>= 1.0.1-1) and

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-15 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:14:01PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:20:22PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > Yes, but in reality what is the likelihood that either a security update > > or NMU would introduce an incompatible change? I would

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluated to be less than the > > empty string. If a package is the target of a security upload in > > stable, you can be certain t

Re: Mysterious NMU (Bug #423455)

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:54:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:05:56PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > >> > >> > Well, the ~ character is stated to be evaluat

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
case, it is becoming apparent that the continued OT discussions are becoming increasingly unpopular. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasons for recommends and suggests

2007-05-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
rsing > programmatically. > Something like /^Justify-\([^:]+\):/ should do it, right? Then $1 becomes the package name. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Draft spec for new dpkg "triggers" feature (v2, repost)

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
vating > event. For example, file triggers do not inform the package of the > filename. In the future this might be added as an additional feature, > but there are some problems with this. > I'd be interested to know in what problems there are with this. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Wanted: introductory page for all teams

2007-05-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
that the release team is already covered well on release.debian.org, via > regular mails to d-d-a and in the developers reference. > I think that having a centrally located list of teams within Debian and where someone can go to learn more/get involved is a good thing. Regards, -Roberto --

Re: BoF: Supporting 15,000 packages - How much support do we mean?

2007-05-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
opment. Of course, since the security team can't possibly monitor upstream development for every package (even just those which don't have active maintainers), we can't really know. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#427113: ITP: xl2tpd -- a layer 2 tunneling protocol implementation

2007-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: xl2tpd Version : 1.1.09 Upstream Author : Paul Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.xeleran

Re: Filing FTBFS bugs and packages in NEW

2007-06-01 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
d by the maintainer of the package. Especially in the case of mass filings resulting from things like rebuilding the archive or other cases (like the bug reporter not knowing/being able to access the stuff in NEW), I think there should be a bit of leniency. Regards, -Roberto -

Re: Bug#427216: ITP: gtkol-ldap -- GtkOL-LDAP is a LDAP client based on GtkOL.

2007-06-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
GtkOL. > > What about author and url? :) > Also, a more descriptive short description. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Touching a file in another package

2007-06-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s.so file in libgnomevfs2-extra's postinst (and > the same for other packages providing GnomeVFS methods), so that its > timestamp changes. > This might be a really impetus and test case for the new dpkg triggers that have been proposed. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
; mail the sysadmin when a new kernel is installed. Because reboot cannot > be automated ... or let the sysadmin install only the kernel manually > (or have an option do that) but inform the sysadmin mail command is our > friend) for the existence of new kernel.. How is what you describe diff

Re: APT 0.7 for sid

2007-06-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:26:50PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:21:03AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > How is what you describe different from what cron-apt already does? > > That's precisely why I asked for details about this feature :

Re: Bug#428212: ITP: linky -- an Iceweasel extension to handle web and image links

2007-06-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ected by the ftp-masters as too generic. Arnaud renamed it to mozilla-noscript and that was accepted. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Reasonable maximum package size ?

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
server-class disks. > That may be true when it comes to breakdowns. However, I challenge you to show me a "cheap" desktop disk that is also SCSI or SAS *and* hotpluggable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
kilo to mean exactly 1000 in the context of computing was a marketing gimmick. Besides, there are other units of measure which carry the same name and have different numerical values based on context (think statute miles and nautical miles), though I don't think any such examples can be fo

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
lowing rigorous standards. > It has never been anything more than people defaulting to a close approximation. Language is imperfect. People make do. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 09:36:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 12 juin 2007 à 03:29 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > > > It has never been anything but a gross imprecision introduced by people > > > incapable of following rigorous standards. > > >

Re: Bug#429801: ITP: libclass-accessor-grouped-perl -- build groups of accessors

2007-06-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
l these weird and whacky new Perl module packages in aid of > something, ie are they about to become reverse dependencies of some new > package? > Do they have to be? I know that I would personally prefer to apt-get install some Perl module, rather than install it myself from CPAN or some

Re: Targeting RPM and Debian from a Debian box?

2007-07-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ion installed. > > It looks like rpmstrap could build you a suitable chroot (like > debootstap for Debian), but from the description it appears to be > somewhat outdated (eg Fedora Core 2). > Also, based on my experience trying to build a CentOS 3 chroot (CentOS 3 being fairly

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ultiple Linux distros (or even with other operating systems, now that Solaris ships with GNOME). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-12 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t for Xen in a stable release is not suitable, I would have to consider migrating those servers to some other distro. I would really hate to have to do that. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [Pkg-xen-devel] Xen status in lenny?

2008-07-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:01:30PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:05:14PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > I think the first question to resolve is to establish that it *is* > > > supported... > > > I think that the prudent thing for

Re: FHS and /var/www

2008-07-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
/srv (or all of it). Such is not the case for /var. That is, people know better than NFS mount /var. That guarantee does not exist, since by nature /srv should mountable by NFS (e.g., for a web cluster, or something like that). Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.co

Re: Screenshots of GUI applications (again)

2008-07-22 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Christoph, Thanks for prodding again on this matter. I've been extremely busy. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 05:05:03PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > Dear list... > > the matter has been discussed at least twice already. Roberto C. Sanchez > brought the matter back up in January 2

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

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
mawk package by the gawk > package and installed some X package at the same time. > > > So, must these packages pre‐depend on awk? > I think so. However, I reported the same bug [0] over three years ago, but it was tagged wontfix last year (presumably by someone on the XSF). Regard

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

2008-07-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
einst had actually been reached, it > would've caused the package to fail to unpack. > In case you missed my other mail in this thread, I think this is the same issue I reported in #314571. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www

Re: Please test syslinux 3.71+dfsg-1

2008-08-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
> > | plz test my pkgs so I can has leverage against the release > team, kthxbye > I don't get it. Isn't the amount of testing received one of the points the release team considers when deciding whether or not grant an exception? If it were not, I would be quite surpri

Re: Packages getting marked not-for-us

2008-08-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
the failure). It would have eventually manifested itself on the main architectures when they switched. As it was, I was able to get upstream to fix the package will ahead of the switch in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cipux-storage_3.4~svn2489-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

2008-08-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ing), > and waiting a month for each of them, well, is quite a drag. > You can upload to NEW packages that Build-Depend on one another. I have done it without issue. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc De

Re: [Suggestion] Reject Mail to ITP Bug

2008-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ot;ITP" in the title. If there is no closes, then assume that there is no ITP and that's it. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#499906: ITP: libmemcache-client-ruby -- a Ruby client library for memcached

2008-09-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libmemcache-client-ruby Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Bob Cottrell, Eric Hodel, The Robot Co-op * URL

Bug#499907: ITP: libtzinfo-ruby -- a Ruby library for transformations between time zones

2008-09-23 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libtzinfo-ruby Version : 0.3.10 Upstream Author : Philip Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http:

Bug#507400: ITP: libi18n-ruby -- I18n and localization solution for Ruby

2008-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libi18n-ruby Version : 0.1.1~git20081120 Upstream Author : The Ruby i18n Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
Debian doesn't release often enough" are simply ignorant or selectively ignoring reality. If you hear someone make that complaint, kindly keep him (or her) from sticking his (or her) foot too far down the throat and point them to unstable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sán

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-29 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
es get held back from testing because of RC bugs. So, if you want packages moving into testing quicker, get the unstable version, test and file bug reports when you find a bug and also try and submit patches to the bugs that are already keeping it out of testing. Regards, -Roberto -- Ro

Re: Non-security updates between stable releases?

2007-07-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
egard, please let me know. > While I think that your opinions are a bit misguided, I hope that you find what you are seeking, either in Debian proper, a derivative or in an effort that you lead yourself. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#435884: ITP: rsyslog -- enhanced multi-threaded syslogd

2007-08-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
y is rsyslog being multi-threaded interesting to our users? > Isn't that an internal implementation decision? > As the "target" user for this sort of package is a sysadmin type, I would saw it is an important enough detail that it should be in the short description. Regard

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-08-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
t;improvements." As I continued I found that you had already come up them and that I just had to read on. In short, it seems well thought out. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PHPhear and MySQLoathing in Debian? (was: Request for set up of kudos.debian.org)

2007-08-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
> that seems to be *specific* to setting up a web service for Debian. > Could it be that most Debian machines already have things like Perl and Postgres installed/configured and the admin team has only so much time on their hands? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
search of packages.d.o. Do you already have the .deb from opera.com locally installed? If so, it will still show up in your apt-cache. A better indicator is `apt-cache policy opera` to see *where* it came from. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto htt

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:46:30PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hmm, seems odd that it should need testing, runs great on my machine > and thousands of others. Perhaps we are a little overzealous, no? > Ummm, why do you troll like this? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sán

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. > I love open-source software but I don't hesitate to use commercial > software if it is free or a better tool for doing the job. > Please indicate how Opera is more free or better than the web browsers already included in Debian. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 01:59:52AM +0700, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > > Twas brillig at 14:52:05 27.08.2007 UTC-04 when Roberto C. Sánchez did gyre > and gimble: > > RCS> Please indicate how Opera is more free or better than the web browsers > RCS> already included in

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 09:32:58PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 02:44:09PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Yes, it seems that it would belong in non-free. I see nothing about > >> redistribution mentioned

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ftware or do you test and release a new version. At least no > one has found the new bugs yet, a few days delay could be big trouble. http://www.debian.org/security/faq#oldversion > There appear to be several spaces before my sig. > Yes, but not the double-dash (--) on a li

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ual package (if you read up on the branch meanings, "testing" quality software nearly always goes to experimental first), but rather the distribution as a whole. That is, all software that makes it to into testing should be stable and release quality and ready for testing with *the

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
stgreSQL, and any of a number of other packages which received tremendous testing upstream. None of them have empty pages on bugs.d.o. Regards, -Roberto Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:12:33PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting "Roberto C. Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >The same > >exact thing could be said of Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and any of a > >number of other packages which received tremendou

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
what software "is likely to need little testing"? Additionally, what insight do you have into the Opera development process and methodology that qualifies you to make that claim specifically about Opera? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http:

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-28 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
unfathomable to the rest of the world. > Then file bug reports or email the maintainers. If you had bothered to actually read the documents which people have siggested, you would be able to do this if you come across issues or things you don't understand. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C.

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-08-30 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
tatically linked against several things > afaik, motif iirc. > Yes, but even though it was done in the past, why on earth should it be done today? Back then, there were no alternatives. Today there are many. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~robert

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
n Debian are > doing (we confine the use of libcracklib to the separate pam_cracklib > module, to keep cracklib out of base); so there probably isn't any modern > justification for this default at all. > Just curious, what is the rationale for wanting to keep cracklib out of base? Re

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 05:20:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 07:38:23PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > Just curious, what is the rationale for wanting to keep cracklib out of > > base? > > Size and complexity. Adding libpam-crackli

Re: backports tool

2007-09-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
manual endeavour. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RFC: changes to default password strength checks in pam_unix

2007-09-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
. I don't think that will work without driving away users. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ion would be for Opera to produce a "source" package of unlinked binary object files. This would allow relinking against new versions of the libraries (at least in most cases) without the need for access to the source. However, I tend to be in agreement with others on this list that t

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:43:09PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Zitat von "Roberto C. Sánchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Dynamic linking is what the security team likes since it means that you > >only update the code once for the whole system. However, in the e

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
CCed an followups, although subscribed.) > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:16:07PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: > >> On Wednesday 05 September 2007 13:23:46 Edward Welbourne wrote: > > >>> I&

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
a Debian "source package" > >> would only put it in a most convenient form for your users. > > Using shared linkage gets the end-user as much ability to replace > libraries (including the X libraries, under BSDoid licenses) as > supplying the linkable binaries - if the

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
nything; > > > > And, of course, vice-versa. > > Opera owes Debian something > > Am I misreading you? > I think that that he meant that Debian does not owe Opera anything. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-13 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ernal policies and procedures; > and this is not really something people outside the organization get to > have a say in. Most countries do not give franchise to just anyone, > unless a certain degree of commitment, and affirmation of belonging > happen first. > Agreed. Regards, -Rob

Passing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-09-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
ngs worked. It only finally worked when I used plain 'DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage'. Additionally, the DEBBUILDOPTS variable in ~/.pbuilderrc did not help either. Have I overlooked something. Is there an option or something that I missed? Regards, -Roberto --

Re: Passing of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 01:05:49AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > env_keep in /etc/sudoers > > or alternatively, > > export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="nostrip" in .pbuilderc is probably what > you're looking for. > Aww crap. I can't believe I ov

Re: User-Agent strings, privacy and Debian browsers

2007-09-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
address. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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