Re: New supply-chain security tool: backseat-signed

2024-04-11 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-04-11T15:37:46+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 10:26:55AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > Or, because some upstream maintainers have learned through, long, > > bitter experience that newer versions of autoconf tools may result > > in the generated configure script to be

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-31T22:32:49+, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Upstreams would probably prefer that we used git repositories > *directly* as source artifacts, but that comes with a whole other can > of worms... Speaking from my upstream groff perspective, I wouldn't _prefer_ that. The distribution

Re: Is it allowed to remove attribution in public domain "licensed" source code? (and pondering about ftp-level reviews)

2024-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Otto, At 2024-03-30T14:09:46-0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > While reviewing xz-utils commits I noticed that a bunch of old > copyright holder names were removed in > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/commit/d1b67558cbc06c449a0ae7b7c1694e277aef4a78. > > Is this OK to do so? My

Re: Validating tarballs against git repositories

2024-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2024-03-30T14:38:03+0200, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2024/03/30 11:05, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > 1. Move towards allowing, and then favoring, git-tags over source tarballs > > > > Some people have suggested this before -- and I have considered > > adopting that approach myself, but one

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-31 Thread G. Branden Robinson
package libghc-pandoc-dev tag 1053777 + fixed-upstream thanks Hi Jonas! At 2024-01-31T08:43:18+0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting G. Branden Robinson (2024-01-31 05:49:00) > > Well, the version of pandoc that resolved the issue was 3.1.7, > > released in August 2023.[1]

Re: Proper handling of Lintian warnings due to other packages

2024-01-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Loren, At 2024-01-30T19:55:07-0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > While building a package preparing for a possible upload, I am getting > a large number of warnings from groff-message due to invalid fonts for > C and CB in the manpages that are generated from Markdown with pandoc. > From what I

static linking, modularity, and community (was: Proposal for how to deal with Go/Rust/etc security bugs)

2024-01-24 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[follow-ups should probably go to -project, but I'm not setting my headers to try to force that] At 2024-01-24T16:57:06+0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: > One could equally well make the argument that distributors should care > about the Go/Rust ecosystems, and make whatever changes needed in > order

Debian package signing and integrity (was: RFC: advise against using Proton Mail for Debian work?)

2023-11-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-11-15T14:58:15+, Jeremy Stanley wrote: > I replied to you there too, but you still never seemed to be able to > explain... why do you need to put an OpenPGP key on the service > you're using to upload Python packages (not Debian packages) to > PyPI, given that PyPI doesn't support

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Jon, At 2023-10-23T17:24:30-0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > When I wrote the article (last week) it was a lot closer :) > > As for why: Debian may have resolved this, for now at least, but this > is an issue that is sure to crop up in distributions that are not as > quick to pick up new groff

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-23T11:17:07-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Would someone be willing to send me a subscriber-sponsored link to it? Thanks to the three fleet-fingered folks who supplied me with one. I am amply equipped to resume my crusade against ignorance and misinformation...except...

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-14T20:51:27-0600, Antonio Russo wrote: > I discovered a new pet peeve today: I must report with some dismay that this thread made LWN. https://lwn.net/Articles/947941/ Would someone be willing to send me a subscriber-sponsored link to it? I intend to attempt to address what I expect

Re: AltGr+ not working anymore on most Desktop apps in Gnome

2023-10-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Andrew, At 2023-10-23T10:41:10+1300, Andrew Ruthven wrote: > On Sun, 2023-10-22 at 13:18 +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > fixed the problem. It is strange this option seems to be affected by > > the keyboard settings in gnome settings, however i changed all > > options back and forth in the

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-15T13:11:47-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Sorry for my original message, which was very poorly worded and > probably incredibly confusing. Let me try to make less of a hash of > it. I think what I'm proposing is something like: My reply to this didn't make it to the -devel list even

Re: Bug#1041731: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Russ, At 2023-10-15T12:06:14-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Minor point, but since you posted it No worries! > "G. Branden Robinson" writes: > > > ... > > > \- Minus sign or basic Latin hyphen‐minus. \- produces the > > Uni

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-15T10:01:20-0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think my position at this point as pod2man maintainer (not yet > implemented in podlators) is that every occurrence of - in POD source > will be translated into \-, rather than using the current heuristics, > and people who meant to use ‐ should

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Wookey, At 2023-10-15T16:08:32+0100, Wookey wrote: > OK. So I read all that, and learned a whole load of stuff I was quite > happy not knowing about. > > However despite reading it all, and especially this bit: > > Whenever I've maintained man pages in roff I tend to be precise in > > the

Re: Hyphens in man pages

2023-10-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-10-14T20:51:27-0600, Antonio Russo wrote: > I discovered a new pet peeve today: if you search for a command in a > manual page, say -e in man 1 zgrep, it's a crapshot whether just > searching for '-e' will find the command or not. The reason is that > "-" may been accidentally encoded as

Re: debian/copyright format and SPDX

2023-09-22 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-09-22T02:11:15-0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > SPDX defines an xml format only. They lost before they'd even > started. > > debian/copyright is supposed to be human-readable first and foremost. > XML need not apply. Very much +1 on everything quoted. That said, SPDX's license list and

Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

2023-09-10 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-09-10T21:47:36+0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > Quoting Bill Allombert (2023-09-10 18:29:36) > > On Sun, Sep 10, 2023 at 09:00:22AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > > >> Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that > > > >> depends

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-23 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-08-23T15:40:06+0100, Adam Sampson wrote: > "Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > > where are we going to get our fortunes from - where's the canonical > > source now that FreeBSD has gone? > > There is Shlomi Fish's version: > https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/ I've been mulling over

Re: Questionable Package Present in Debian: fortune-mod

2023-08-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
arbage workers. At 2023-08-18T21:09:11+, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > As the person who raised this on debian-project in November 2022 - see > the archives for debian-project for November/December 2022 [...] > There was unfortunately no consensus on removal on debian-project and

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-08-17T01:37:52+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 07:08:18PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > [6] https://man.cx/grog > > > > I was going to link to > > https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/groff/grof.1.en.html here, but >

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-16 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Hugh, At 2023-08-17T07:54:03+1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 at 03:39, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 09:29:45PM +1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > > > This all seems promising. Unfortunately, the man page is > > > hand-crafted, not generated from another source,

Re: groff warning: TE macro called with TW register undefined

2023-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Hugh, I work on groff upstream. At 2023-08-15T22:46:30+1000, Hugh McMaster wrote: > groff-message an.tmac::66: warning: tbl preprocessor > failed, or it or soelim was not run; table(s) likely not rendered (TE > macro called with TW register undefined) > > It seems TW is not defined in the

Re: How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

2023-07-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-07-21T13:43:05+0200, IOhannes m zmölnig (Debian/GNU) wrote: > On 7/21/23 12:57, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > But I see no mechanism for interacting with autopkgtests to force > > them to re-run due to the remedy of a defect in the test harne

How do you cause a re-run of autopkgtests?

2023-07-21 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, Regarding: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/groff ...progress of groff into testing is blocked because autopkgtests went bonkers, failing on every architecture. This was due to a change in a groff diagnostic message not getting scraped away by dgit, which was using a regex to match the

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-05-19T15:32:40+0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I occasionally use 32-bit x86 even today (mostly for not very good > historical reasons, but nevertheless), and I do it by using a 32-bit > container on a 64-bit x86 machine instead. It's much faster to run, > and it doesn't depend on installer

Re: i386 in the future (was Re: 64-bit time_t transition for 32-bit archs: a proposal)

2023-05-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-05-19T15:03:40+0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Luca Boccassi wrote: > >+1 for stopping publishing installers for i386, it has been mentioned > >many times but it's always worth repeating: electricity costs to keep > >running i386 hardware are already way higher than what it costs to > >buy a

Re: booststrapping /usr-merged systems (was: Re: DEP 17: Improve support for directory aliasing in dpkg)

2023-05-17 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-05-17T11:30:36+0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > This bootstrap aspect got me and I discussed this with a number of > people and did some research. I'd like to nominate you for a Russ Allbery Award for the most useful post to the thread. Your attention to concrete, empirical details, arising

Re: RFC: More C errors by default in GCC 14 (no more implicit function declarations etc.)

2023-04-18 Thread G. Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-gcc or c-std-porting] Hi Florian, At 2023-04-18T16:07:45+0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > TL;DR: I want to propose a GCC 14 change which will impact > distributions, so I'd like to gather some feedback from Debian. > > Clang has disabled support for a few historic C

Re: Reducing allowed Vcs for packaging?

2023-03-26 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-03-26T13:56:55-0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 10:58PM +01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > But git or svn or even sccs and rcs is NOT, in any way, preferred > > for of modification. Only one way of storage and handling some > > metadata. > > This is Debian's official position,

Re: need GBP help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2023-02-26T11:52:39+0100, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > Just import them? Do you have any specific questions or problems with > this? [...] > Again, which advice? You said that it works for you. Hi Andrey, I think at least some of my confusion arose from trying to use gbp with a git-dpm-based

Re: Bug#1011666: need help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
o the gods of backports and point releases. Regards, Branden [1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#soft [2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/ANNOUNCE?id=99e5b4ae55a7c222f6bf57b355289a88d862478d https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/groff.git/tree/NEWS?id=99e5b4ae55a7c2

need GBP help with groff 1.23.0 (1.23.0~rc3-1 package prepared)

2023-02-25 Thread G. Branden Robinson
D~21..HEAD). commit 3cff7c6967e89d187efb160ce7d2a09af5ea82aa (HEAD -> master) Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sat Feb 25 22:53:06 2023 -0600 debian/changelog: Add upstream bug closers. commit 1fd80f4151713e9f1d3cb52a4b749fa643776908 Author: G. Branden Robinson Date: Sat Feb 25 22:29:

dh_clean fails with diagnostics involving cp, checksums, and a "bucket"

2021-10-27 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi folks, It's been a while since I've done any packaging. I was baffled when presented with the following. dh_clean cp: cannot stat 'debian/.debhelper/bucket/files/19c12bb2ca19e68724c2854ed0512469518df19b0710cc2011a5ca540810979c': No such file or directory dh_clean: error: cp -an

Re: Realizing Good Ideas with Debian Money

2019-06-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2019-06-01T09:04:39+0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Are we then looking more closely at AMD-based machines given that > those had less problems around speculative attacks? To borrow a phrase from Christopher Hitchens, this comment gives a hostage to fortune. My team at work closely follows (and

Accepted xtrs 4.9d-2 (source amd64) into unstable

2018-08-15 Thread G. Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:59:02 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.9d-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: G. Branden Robinson Changed-By: G. Branden Robinson Description: xtrs

Accepted xtrs 4.9d-1 (source amd64) into unstable

2018-08-08 Thread G. Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2018 03:21:44 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source amd64 Version: 4.9d-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: G. Branden Robinson Changed-By: G. Branden Robinson Description: xtrs

Accepted xtrs 4.9c-4 (source) into unstable

2017-04-01 Thread G. Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 09:20:32 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source Version: 4.9c-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> Changed-By: G. Branden Ro

Accepted xtrs 4.9c-3 (source powerpc)

2008-05-12 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 02:36:30 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9c-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Copyright question (BSD with advertisement clause)

2008-02-07 Thread Branden Robinson
[You didn't honor my M-F-T so I guess this will continue to go to both lists.] On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:29:29PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe your reasoning is faulty, because it is based on incomplete information. There was more than

Accepted xtrs 4.9c-2 (source powerpc)

2008-02-06 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:09:13 -0500 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9c-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ctwm 3.7-3 (source powerpc)

2006-07-21 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:27:56 -0400 Source: ctwm Binary: ctwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 3.7-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xtrs 4.9c-1 (source powerpc)

2006-05-15 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 01:21:50 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9c-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xtrs 4.9b-1 (source powerpc)

2006-05-13 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 01:07:16 -0400 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted vtwm 5.4.7-2 (source powerpc)

2005-11-06 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 09:44:15 -0500 Source: vtwm Binary: vtwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 5.4.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xtrs 4.9a-2 (source powerpc)

2005-11-05 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:42:38 -0500 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9a-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted vtwm 5.4.7-1 (source powerpc)

2005-11-05 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 19:35:41 -0500 Source: vtwm Binary: vtwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 5.4.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ctwm 3.7-1 (source powerpc)

2005-11-02 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 13:03:57 -0500 Source: ctwm Binary: ctwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 3.7-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted ctwm 3.7-2 (source powerpc)

2005-11-02 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 15:00:00 -0500 Source: ctwm Binary: ctwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 3.7-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Branden Robinson
was also called rpmstrap and was written from scratch by Branden Robinson. It does not contain any code borrowed from debootstrap. I assert this to be the case. I'm easily capable of writing the trivial shell script that constitutes the original rpmstrap, and the modifications I made

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-08-30 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:56:56PM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: Le lundi 29 août 2005 à 11:42 -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader a écrit : Eh? What exactly did I say? Overfiend wiggy: if anyone from d-a is responding to any of the offers they're getting, they're not CCing me

Re: Documentation of alioth?

2005-08-29 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
with ftpmaster work. The ftpmaster people organise themselves on their own. Well, in theory, when a task crosses a lane of responsibility from ftpmaster to DSA and back, these people do actually communicate with each other. (I *did* say in theory...) -- G. Branden Robinson Debian Project Leader [EMAIL

Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
but distinguishable issues -- one is a presentation format for distribution, the other is a means for the work to identify itself. -- G. Branden Robinson| Religious bondage shackles and Debian GNU/Linux | debilitates the mind and unfits it [EMAIL PROTECTED

new delegates: Package Policy Committee

2005-06-23 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
, provided sufficiently qualified and trusted individuals are available to fill both teams, there should be little overlap in membership, so that the bodies have mutual independence. [1] http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution [2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ -- G. Branden Robinson Debian

Accepted libxrender 1:0.9.0-1 (powerpc source)

2005-06-21 Thread Branden Robinson
@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libxrender1-dbg - X Rendering Extension client library (unstripped) Changes: libxrender (1:0.9.0

Accepted libxrender 1:0.9.0-2 (powerpc source)

2005-06-21 Thread Branden Robinson
@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libxrender1-dbg - X Rendering Extension client library (unstripped) Changes: libxrender (1

Accepted renderext 1:0.9-1 (all source)

2005-06-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:09:26 -0500 Source: renderext Binary: render-dev Architecture: source all Version: 1:0.9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force debian-x@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden

Debian Project Leader report for 2005-05-08

2005-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=27311 .. vim:set ai et sts=4 sw=4 tw=72: -- G. Branden Robinson Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~branden/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Accepted render 1:0.8-1 (all source)

2005-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 13:53:44 -0500 Source: render Binary: render-dev Architecture: source all Version: 1:0.8-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force debian-x@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson

Accepted xrender 1:0.8.3-1 (powerpc source)

2005-05-09 Thread Branden Robinson
@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libxrender1-dbg - X Rendering Extension client library (unstripped) Closes: 257187 280092 Changes

Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-05-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 01:45:52PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le lundi 25 avril 2005 à 01:03 -0500, Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader a écrit : Woody Security Update Challenges and Progress - The ARM problems we've had have also

Accepted xtrs 4.9a-1 (powerpc source)

2005-04-29 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 23:51:58 -0500 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9a-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24

2005-04-25 Thread Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader
-2005-analysis/ .. vim:set ai et sts=4 sw=4 tw=72: -- G. Branden Robinson Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~branden signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#302138: incorrect Description line wrapping with bullet lists

2005-04-06 Thread Branden Robinson
/var/lib/apt/lists/*_Packages on an i386 sid box. [...] Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: twofish Go ahead and file a bug for this one, please -- twofish sees so little activity that I'm likely to forget to fix this, and having an open bug report against it will remind me to start maintaining

Accepted xft 2.1.7-1 (powerpc source)

2005-04-01 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxft-dev - FreeType-based font drawing library for X (development files) libxft2- FreeType-based font drawing library for X libxft2-dbg - FreeType-based font drawing library for X (unstripped) Changes: xft (2.1.7-1) unstable; urgency

Re: Bug 295175 followup

2005-02-20 Thread Branden Robinson
available at URL: http://redwald.deadbeast.net/tmp/xfree86-common_postrm_buildd_fix.diff -- G. Branden Robinson| The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I [EMAIL PROTECTED] | installed Linux

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12 (powerpc all source)

2005-02-18 Thread Branden Robinson
@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-11 (powerpc all source)

2005-02-12 Thread Branden Robinson
@lists.debian.org Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library

Accepted shermans-aquarium 2.2.0-1.1 (powerpc source)

2005-02-02 Thread Branden Robinson
Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: shermans-aquarium - Sherman's aquarium applet for GNOME 2 Closes: 287089 Changes: shermans-aquarium (2.2.0-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium . * Non-maintainer upload prepared by Helen Faulkner; reviewed by Branden Robinson. Urgency due to fix

Re: Editing history... (about debian/changelog in experimental)

2005-01-19 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:13:57PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: Branden Robinson told me that he does changelog editing of past revisions continuously for X, for reasons of being able to correctly lookup when a certain bug was fixed. Especially typo's in bugnumber for example can make

Accepted xtrs 4.9-5 (powerpc source)

2005-01-13 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:51:57 -0500 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted vtwm 5.4.6b-1 (powerpc source)

2004-12-30 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:20:05 -0500 Source: vtwm Binary: vtwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 5.4.6b-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xtrs 4.9-4 (powerpc source)

2004-12-24 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 22:51:10 -0500 Source: xtrs Binary: xtrs Architecture: source powerpc Version: 4.9-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

having trouble with xdm/xfs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-9?

2004-12-14 Thread Branden Robinson
testing or unstable, please bookmark the following site: http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/NEWS.xhtml -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 10:57:24AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Branden Robinson | On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:06:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: | environment variables, at least, are trivial to accomplish using the | pam_env module. Properly setting a umask would call for something

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
, if I can't persuade the users of those MUAs that honoring people's wishes is a good idea, I don't suspect I'll make much more headway with anyone else. -- G. Branden Robinson| Debian GNU/Linux | If ignorance is bliss, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-21 Thread Branden Robinson
more harmoniously with people involved with the Debian Project. Thank you for your patience with this form letter, for your respect for the Debian Project's mailing list conventions, and for your participation in Debian. -- G. Branden Robinson|When we call others dogmatic

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
suspect that umasks predate environment variables in the misty early history of Unix, else the umask would've been made one. -- G. Branden Robinson| The Bible is probably the most Debian GNU/Linux | genocidal book ever written. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-18 Thread Branden Robinson
without indulging yourself in straw-man attacks like this, please follow-up with a more reasonable message. And, by the way: X-No-CC: I subscribe to this list; do not CC me on replies. Please get an MUA that respects Mail-Copies-To:. -- G. Branden Robinson|I must

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-15 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 12:14:58AM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote: Branden Robinson wrote: /etc/login.defs explicitly indicates that it is Configuration control definitions for the login package, and many of its parameters are inapplicable to display managers, or already implemented in parallel

Re: Xsession doesn't use umask setting from /etc/login.defs

2004-10-13 Thread Branden Robinson
resistance? * What would violate user expectations the least? * What would be a good ideal approach, if code changes weren't an issue? -- G. Branden Robinson| You could wire up a dead rat to a Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory [EMAIL PROTECTED

Jörg Schilling is damage; the community should route around him

2004-10-09 Thread Branden Robinson
/ [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265546 [3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270060 -- G. Branden Robinson| If you want your name spelled Debian GNU/Linux | wrong, die. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Al

Re: Looking for ontologies useful for debtags

2004-10-05 Thread Branden Robinson
existing knowledge bases. Enrico, Casting Eray Summoning IX is prohibited in Debian and is a bannable offense. :-P Quick, everyone, scoot your feet across his thaumaturgic circle before he finishes his spell... -- G. Branden Robinson| Never underestimate the power of Debian GNU

Accepted ctwm 3.6-2 (powerpc source)

2004-06-18 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 23:21:26 -0500 Source: ctwm Binary: ctwm Architecture: source powerpc Version: 3.6-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4 (powerpc all source)

2004-05-29 Thread Branden Robinson
] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped

Accepted xcursor 1.1.3-1 (powerpc source)

2004-04-19 Thread Branden Robinson
PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxcursor-dev - X cursor management library (development files) libxcursor1 - X cursor management library libxcursor1-dbg - X cursor management library (unstripped) Closes: 241249 Changes: xcursor (1.1.3-1) unstable; urgency

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0-6 (powerpc all source)

2004-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0-7 (powerpc all source)

2004-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped

Accepted xcursor 1.0.2-5 (powerpc source)

2004-03-12 Thread Branden Robinson
] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxcursor-dev - X Cursor management library (development files) libxcursor1 - X Cursor management library libxcursor1-dbg - X Cursor management library (unstripped) Changes: xcursor (1.0.2-5) unstable; urgency=low . * Make

Accepted xft 2.1.2-6 (powerpc source)

2004-03-11 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxft-dev - FreeType-based font drawing library for X (development files) libxft2- FreeType-based font drawing library for X libxft2-dbg - FreeType-based font drawing library for X (unstripped) Changes: xft (2.1.2-6) unstable; urgency=low

Accepted xrender 0.8.3-7 (powerpc source)

2004-03-09 Thread Branden Robinson
PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libxrender1-dbg - X Rendering Extension client library (unstripped) Closes: 233969 Changes: xrender (0.8.3

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0-5 (i386 source all)

2004-03-05 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped) libice

Italian translation of my DPL platform available

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
are remaining anonymous for the time being. You know who you are, and you're very kind. Spelling errors are probably the translators' responsibility, but objectionable content is probably mine, so if you have feedback, please raise it on the debian-vote list. :) -- G. Branden Robinson

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0-4 (powerpc all source)

2004-03-04 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped

Accepted xfree86 4.3.0-3 (i386 source all)

2004-02-29 Thread Branden Robinson
-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript (DPS) client library (unstripped) libice

Accepted render 0.8-4 (all source)

2004-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.7 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 22:49:42 -0500 Source: render Binary: render-dev Architecture: source all Version: 0.8-4 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL

Accepted xrender 0.8.3-6 (powerpc source)

2004-02-19 Thread Branden Robinson
] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxrender-dev - X Rendering Extension client library (development files) libxrender1 - X Rendering Extension client library libxrender1-dbg - X Rendering Extension client library (unstripped) Closes: 225450 227867 230803 233812 Changes

Accepted xfree86 4.2.1-16 (powerpc all source)

2004-01-28 Thread Branden Robinson
Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: lbxproxy - Low Bandwidth X (LBX) proxy server libdps-dev - Display PostScript (DPS) client library development files libdps1- Display PostScript (DPS) client library libdps1-dbg - Display PostScript

Accepted xcursor 1.0.2-4 (powerpc source)

2003-12-30 Thread Branden Robinson
PROTECTED] Changed-By: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Description: libxcursor-dev - X Cursor management library (development files) libxcursor1 - X Cursor management library libxcursor1-dbg - X Cursor management library (unstripped) Closes: 225433 Changes: xcursor (1.0.2-4) unstable; urgency

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