Re: Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * URL : http://www.imitationpickles.org/melons/index.html Source code contains a duplicated non-free font (HURRYUP.TTF from ttf-larabie-straight). -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UN

Re: RFC: Java (JAR) desktop integration/admin tool

2008-07-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:17 AM, RalfGesellensetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what's the difference between /usr/share/menu/ & /etc/xdg/menus/ ? The former is for menu files for the Debian-specific menu (that isn't available in Debian GNOME by default). The latter lists FreeDesktop menus for d

Bug#490858: ITP: asylum -- platform shooting game

2008-07-14 Thread Peter De Wachter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: asylum Version : 0.2.3 Upstream Author : Hugh Robinson * URL : http://sdl-asylum.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : surreal pla

Bug#490857: ITP: watermelons -- watermelon bouncing game

2008-07-14 Thread Peter De Wachter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter De Wachter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: watermelons Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Phil Hassey * URL : http://www.imitationpickles.org/melons/index.html * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python Descri

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

2008-07-14 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Paul van der Vlis dijo [Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:41:20PM +0200]: > Maybe we can stop with etch-and-a-half. For the security-team is > supporting the etch-and-a-half kernel (2.6.24) a lot more work then > supporting the etch-kernel. > > I think "etch-and-a-half" is a good idea, but the team is very

Re: Kernel 2.6.25 broke iPod support for me, but who to bug?

2008-07-14 Thread Teemu Likonen
Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > I traced the error back to a change in kernel 2.6.25: Apparently vfat > file system can now become case sensitive in some cases > ("FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, > filesystem will be case sensitive!") > - kernel: I find it unlikely that

Re: RFC: Java (JAR) desktop integration/admin tool

2008-07-14 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Ta, paul Am Montag 14 Juli 2008 schrieb Paul Wise: > Just altering all the menu files that packages put in /etc/xdg/menus/ what's the difference between /usr/share/menu/ & /etc/xdg/menus/ ? cheers regards ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

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

2008-07-14 Thread Luk Claes
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > Steve Langasek schreef: > >> If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a >> 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be >> Somebody Else's Problem. I'm certainly happier with that than having us >> /claim/ to

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-14 Thread Joe Smith
"Brian May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Joe Smith wrote: However, if the security updates come from trusted security mirrors rather than a general mirror, that attack would fail too. So with the exception of Sid or Testing users that do not use the testing-secu

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe HOME was still set to the user's home dir? If XAUTHORITY isn't > set Xlib looks in $HOME/.Xauthority, so that may work depending how you > get root. Ah, XAUTHORITY was set. Thank you. I didn't know about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECT

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:50:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't > > normally have access to the X server. > > See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work fine.

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 14 juillet 2008, vers 17:50, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> disait : >> It will always fail, because the user running the script (root) won't >> normally have access to the X server. > See, I thought that too, and then I tried it and it seemed to work

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give >>> "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to >>> be updated

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.14.1701 +0200]: > The other option is to have 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.1.0, where 5.1.0 > is lenny+1/2. I note that replacing the second . with an r makes this converge with the previous proposal to increment y only for stable updates that a

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-14 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080714 17:38]: > The other option is to have 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.1.0, where 5.1.0 > is lenny+1/2. > > That probably most accurately reflects what is really happening. It also has the big advantage of using an already existing versioning scheme, so less

Re: Debian release versioning

2008-07-14 Thread John Goerzen
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.07.12.2321 +0200]: >> I'm not sure sure that we want to have a hole in our versioning scheme. >> Since "lenny+1/2" is just another stable update, let's just number it >> like a stable update. So we don't end up with users

Bug#490832: ITP: plink -- whole-genome association analysis toolset

2008-07-14 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: plink Version : 1.03p1 Upstream Author : Shaun Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pngu.mgh.harvard.edu/~purcell/plink * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ De

RE: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread unifoundry
> Original Message > Subject: Re: font policy changes > From: Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, July 14, 2008 2:26 am > To: Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], > debian-devel@lists.debian.org,[EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony > Fok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Package management unsafe?

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:36:44AM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/attacks-on-package-managers.html > > What are people's thoughts on this? I don't

Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-14 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 06:35:37PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Isn't this a standard reference counting problem? When adduser --system > is called, have adduser add the calling package to a list of packages > that own that system user; when deluser is called on a system user, > remove the calling

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

2008-07-14 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Steve Langasek schreef: > If the Debian security team is unwilling or unable to provide support for a > 2.6.18 kernel over the lifetime of lenny, I'm happy to see us let dom0 be > Somebody Else's Problem. I'm certainly happier with that than having us > /claim/ to support 2.6.18, have users rely

Re: RFC: Removal of user/groups

2008-07-14 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 04:56:03PM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > I was thinking of the reusability problem, and came up with the following: > When an user/group is removed, it's placed in quarantine. That ID > isn't used unless the same user/group is recreated, or that all other > possible ID:s

Bug#490805: ITP: txtreader -- text reader, mainly used for reading text originally novels

2008-07-14 Thread LI Daobing
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: LI Daobing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: txtreader Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.minisrc.com/?q=taxonomy/term/2 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : tex

Bug#490804: ITP: libnet-freedb-perl -- Perl interface to FreeDB servers

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libnet-freedb-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : David Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Ne

Bug#490803: ITP: libcddb-file-perl -- library for parsing CDDB/FreeDB data files

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Pentchev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Pentchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libcddb-file-perl Version : 1.05 Upstream Author : Tony Bowden * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/CDDB-File/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

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

2008-07-14 Thread Loïc Minier
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: > The distro used on dom0 is pretty uninteresting, given that part of the > point of having Xen-style virtualization for servers is to a) be able to run > different OSes in different guests, and b) not to run services in dom0.[1] A recent kernel to supp

Bug#490787: RFA: evms -- Enterprise Volume Management System

2008-07-14 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi, I've now removed EVMS from the last of my machines. The package was a good idea in its time, but sadly has been neglected by upstream over the last five years or so, and there's currently little hope that upstream development will ever resume unless someone else

Re: font policy changes

2008-07-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 22:13:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > 3) Even if "mkfontdir" were invoked directly or if it's okay to give > > "update-fonts-dir" an absolute path (in which case its man page needs to > > be updated and the warning removed), isn't it also ad

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