Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:54:28 +0200 Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > Ah yes, Iceape. Their releases are so few and far between, this could > > possibly mean that we won't see Iceweasel 3.6 or Icedove 3.1 for some > > time, correct? Upstream Sea

Bug#587488: ITP: qt-assistant-compat -- Qt Assistant compatibility binary (legacy)

2010-06-28 Thread Fathi Boudra
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Fathi Boudra * Package name: qt-assistant-compat Version : .4.6.3 Upstream Author : Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) * URL : http://labs.trolltech.com/ * License : LGPL2 with exception or GPL3 Programming L

broken upload

2010-06-28 Thread Russell Coker
Below are two messages I have received after attempts to upload a new refpolicy package. I first tried via FTP but the 3G Internet connection I'm using gives me a 10.0.0.0/24 address with NAT that doesn't support FTP, so I ended up with a zero byte file on anonymous-ftp-master. Then I got scp

kapila chawhan has invited you to open a Google mail account

2010-06-28 Thread kapila chawhan
I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. --- kapila chawhan has invited you to open a free Gmail account. To accept this invitation and register for your account,

Bug#587483: ITP: threadscope -- a graphical thread profiler for Haskell programs

2010-06-28 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: threadscope Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Simon Marlow , Donnie Jones , Satnam Singh * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/thread

Re: Policy 3.9.0.0 released

2010-06-28 Thread Emil Langrock
Russ Allbery wrote: > Debian Policy 3.9.0.0 has been released. The next time you upload your > packages, please review them against the upgrading checklist in the > debian-policy package and see if they require changes for the new version > of Policy. > [...] > 5.6.8, 7.1, 11.1.1 >

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 18:45 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: [...] > please get your facts right before spamming the world. Max, this is rude and unjustified. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
Please reply to debian-kernel only. On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:02:35 -0400 (EDT), Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > The environment variable DEB_MAINT_PARAMS will contain > > the arguments given to the kernel maintainer script, single-quoted. >

Re: Policy 3.9.0.0 released

2010-06-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Emil Langrock writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Debian Policy 3.9.0.0 has been released. The next time you upload your >> packages, please review them against the upgrading checklist in the >> debian-policy package and see if they require changes for the new >> version of Policy. >> > [...] >>

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:19 +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:02:35AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files > > they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install > > hook scripts in /etc/k

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 03:02:35AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files > they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install > hook scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d, which > will be call

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On lun., 2010-06-28 at 17:55 +0200, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > I agree : on 64bit systems Iceweasel 3.5 is way too slow, and Iceweasel > 3.6 should be included in Squeeze. Thank you for volunteering, I'm sure Mike will take all the help you'll give. -- Yves-Alexis signature.asc Description: Th

Bug#587468: ITP: audacious-analog-vumeter-plugin_1.0.0~rc1-1_i386.deb -- VU meter plugin for xmms and audacious

2010-06-28 Thread Antonino Arcudi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonino Arcudi * Package name: audacious-analog-vumeter-plugin_1.0.0~rc1-1_i386.deb Version : 1.0.0-rc1 Upstream Author : Pekka Harjamäki, mcf...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vumeterplugin/ * Li

Bug#587467: ITP: audacious-analog-vumeter-plugin_1.0.0~rc1-1_i386.deb -- VU meter plugin for xmms and audacious

2010-06-28 Thread Antonino Arcudi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonino Arcudi * Package name: audacious-analog-vumeter-plugin_1.0.0~rc1-1_i386.deb Version : 1.0.0~rc1-1 Upstream Author : Name Pekka Harjamäki, mcf...@users.sourceforge.net * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vumeterplugi

Re: Policy 3.9.0.0 released

2010-06-28 Thread Carl Fürstenberg
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 19:20, Russ Allbery wrote: >     perl >          `perl-base' now provides `perlapi-' instead of a package >          based solely on the Perl version.  Perl packages must now depend >          on `perlapi-$Config{debian_abi}', falling back on >          `$Config{version}' i

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:45:10 -0400 (EDT), maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 03:02:35 +0100 Ben Hutchings wrote: >> The arguments given to all kernel hook scripts are the kernel ABI >> version (the string that uname -r reports) and the absolute path to the >> kernel image. > On Mon, Jun

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:35, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: > >> Unfortunately, as xpcom is guaranteed forward compatible but not >> backwards compatible, some plugins and extensions, once built against >> xulrunner 1.9.2, are likely to not work in iceape 2.0 anymore. This

Bug#587446: RFP: cutycapt -- a small command-line utility to capture WebKit's rendering of a web page

2010-06-28 Thread Riccardo Magliocchetti
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: cutycapt Version: svn Upstream Author: Bjoern Hoehrmann URL: http://cutycapt.sourceforge.net/ License: GPLv2+ Description: a sm

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Luk Claes
On 06/28/2010 04:40 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since > twitter > will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze > release. Will they also not be usable anymore with identi.ca and similar twitt

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:16:58AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > > --- > > 1. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files > > they load are modified (i.e. those that store a block list) must install > > hook scripts in /etc/kernel/postinst.d and /etc/kernel/postrm.d, which

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Joachim Wiedorn
Hello William, perhaps you have read the recent email from Ben (see below). It would be important to update the lilo package to support these recent requirements to prepare LILO for Squeeze before it will get stable. Do you have the intention to update the lilo package to integrate some scripts f

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Le 28/06/2010 11:35, Marco d'Itri a écrit : On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: Unfortunately, as xpcom is guaranteed forward compatible but not backwards compatible, some plugins and extensions, once built against xulrunner 1.9.2, are likely to not work in iceape 2.0 anymore. This would leave

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 28.06.2010, 23:40 +0900 schrieb Hideki Yamane: > As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since > twitter > will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze > release. > > These lists are assumed to be affected packages (go

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Carlos Galisteo
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > qwit: needs update. It should be newer than 1.1-beta. Waiting for qoauth [1]. > Any comments are welcome. Thanks. Please, notice that oauth may imply some issues about distributing application secret tokens [2]. Upstream and maintainers s

Re: all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2010-06-28, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since > twitter > will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze > release. > > These lists are assumed to be affected packages (got with "apt-cache searc

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread Stephen Powell
I took the liberty of adding debian-boot and debian-s390 to the CC list on this e-mail, since it affects the Debian installer and the s390-tools package, which contains the zipl boot loader, which has a design very similar to that of lilo. If this results in some people getting more than one copy

all twitter client should support OAuth before they will drop Basic Auth in August

2010-06-28 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, As I reported in Bug#587420, all twitter client should support OAuth since twitter will discard basic auth. If they not, we should drop them from Squeeze release. These lists are assumed to be affected packages (got with "apt-cache search twitter"). -

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:29:54PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel > wrote: > > > Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file > > for a given library ? > > You add "dh_makeshlibs -- -c4" to debian/rules and then edit the diff in > th

Bug#587422: ITP: ferret-viz -- Interactive data visualization and analysis environment, for gridded and non-gridded climate data

2010-06-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: ferret-viz Version : 6.2 Upstream Author : NOAA * URL : http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/home * License : Public Domain / Programming Lang: Fortran Description : Interactive

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Micah Gersten
On 06/28/2010 03:38 AM, Steffen Möller wrote: > Hello, > > On 06/27/2010 04:25 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> Seeing as though upstream Firefox 3.6 released December 1, 2008, and >> upstream Thunderbird 3.1 released just a couple days ago, it might be >> high time to get xulrunner 1.9.2 into Sid, as

Re: RE : xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file > for a given library ? > > I could not find this information on the debian wiki. > > thanks > > Frederic Hi, $ man dpkg-gensymbols aka $ dpkg-gensymbols -plibfoo -v0.1.2 -Odebian/libf

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 28/06/2010 14:29, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel > wrote: > >> Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file for >> a given library ? > > You add "dh_makeshlibs -- -c4" to debian/rules and then edit the diff in > the error message. You c

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 28, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file for > a given library ? You add "dh_makeshlibs -- -c4" to debian/rules and then edit the diff in the error message. Do not forget to remove the old .shlibs file. -- ciao, Marc

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/28/2010 06:54 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: [snip] Second, for the reasons given earlier, releasing with iceweasel 3.6 and icedove 3.1 would mean to avoid releasing with iceape 2.0. This may not be a huge problem, as we already didn'

Re: Improve support for installing 32-bit libraries on 64-bit systems

2010-06-28 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/6/26 Luca Bruno : > David Kalnischkies scrisse: >> The biggest showstoppers are as far as i know that >> a) dpkg doesn't support it >> b) APT doesn't support it >> c) (not many) packages use it (last time i check ~24) >> >> c) is likely caused by a) and b) which in fact decreases the >> motiva

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 05:36:11AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Ah yes, Iceape. Their releases are so few and far between, this could > possibly mean that we won't see Iceweasel 3.6 or Icedove 3.1 for some > time, correct? Upstream Seamonkey 2.1 will be build against gecko 1.9.3, > but its release

RE : xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel
Do you have an entry explaining how to create from scratch a symbol file for a given library ? I could not find this information on the debian wiki. thanks Frederic Message d'origine De: Marco d'Itri [mailto:m...@linux.it] Date: lun. 28/06/2010 12:37 À: debian-devel@lists.deb

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 06/28/2010 02:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > The latter also applies for iceape and icedove, and is why 3.5/1.9.1 is > still considered as the release target: iceape 2.0, icedove 3.0, and > iceweasel 3.5 are all based on xulrunner/gecko 1.9.1. Security support > for stable will be easier if there i

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: > Speaking of backports, a way to streamline packages from testing to > backports would be very much helpful for packages like iceweasel, where > basically the package from testing can be installed on a lenny system > provided you already use backports for some other

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 09:55:22AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2010-06-28, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > If there is no manpower to do better than this then I feel that it would > > be more honest to just use volatile. > > The catch-all for "I can't maintain this stuff properly"[1] is not volatile,

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:35:17AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > Unfortunately, as xpcom is guaranteed forward compatible but not > > backwards compatible, some plugins and extensions, once built against > > xulrunner 1.9.2, are likely to not work in iceape 2.0

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2010-06-28, Marco d'Itri wrote: > If there is no manpower to do better than this then I feel that it would > be more honest to just use volatile. The catch-all for "I can't maintain this stuff properly"[1] is not volatile, but backports. Thanks. Kind regards, Philipp Kern [1] No offence mea

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 28, Mike Hommey wrote: > Unfortunately, as xpcom is guaranteed forward compatible but not > backwards compatible, some plugins and extensions, once built against > xulrunner 1.9.2, are likely to not work in iceape 2.0 anymore. This > would leave iceape users with a bitter aftertaste. Alter

Re: [DRAFT] Policy for Linux kernel, initramfs, boot loader update process

2010-06-28 Thread maximilian attems
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 2. Packages for boot loaders that need to be updated whenever the files > they load are modified must also install hook scripts in > /etc/mkinitramfs/post-update.d. Initramfs builders must call these > scripts using run-parts after they create, update o

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, On 06/27/2010 04:25 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Seeing as though upstream Firefox 3.6 released December 1, 2008, and > upstream Thunderbird 3.1 released just a couple days ago, it might be > high time to get xulrunner 1.9.2 into Sid, as both Iceweasel 3.6 and > Icedove 3.1 will depend on it.

Re: xulrunner 1.9.2 into sid?

2010-06-28 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:25:59AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Seeing as though upstream Firefox 3.6 released December 1, 2008, and > upstream Thunderbird 3.1 released just a couple days ago, it might be > high time to get xulrunner 1.9.2 into Sid, as both Iceweasel 3.6 and > Icedove 3.1 will dep