Re: RFS: gmusicbrowser
OoO Vers la fin de l'après-midi du dimanche 27 juillet 2008, vers 16:46, Quentin Sculo [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : The revised package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gmusicbrowser - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/g/gmusicbrowser/gmusicbrowser_1.0-2.dsc Hi Quentin! Your GPG key is not signed by anybody. Try to meet some people to get it signed. If you live near Paris, we can arrange to meet. I think that the long description should start with GMusicBrowser uses GStreamer,... but I am not an expert. You can seek for advice on debian-l10n-english. License should be indented in debian/copyright. The package seems fine otherwise. -- BOFH excuse #389: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null pgp7K2sVonEeL.pgp Description: PGP signature
I want to contribute to Debian
Hello, I am Fabio Balzano, I write from Italy, I use debian sinc 1999 and currentli I am system administrator of different systems for my customers all debian based. I also made VOIP systems asterisk based with custom modifications and c modules. I want to help Debian and *I can: -write bash scripts -write python applications -perl basic level -c basic level -write html pages -translate docs -try to fix bugs -VOIP expert (asterisk...) I need some advice where I can start, and where I can find a contact to receive first job. Thank you Fabio Balzano === Key fingerprint: B0B6 08AF 7BC9 9840 A8F6 B27A B3BB 8837 0C7C 9579 === 0x0C7C9579.asc Description: application/pgp-keys begin:vcard fn:Fabio Balzano n:Balzano;Fabio org:El Faro Networks;Research Development adr:;;;Milano;;;Italy email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Mr. tel;work:(+39) 0297373797 tel;fax:(+39) 02700533410 tel;cell:(+39) 3348792454 x-mozilla-html:TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 19:30 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: On Wednesday 27 August 2008 19:02, Neil Williams wrote: 3. You're asking for sponsorship of PHP packages which are a security nightmare (esp. wordpress that had a huge flamewar around the time of the Etch release due to security issues). Many sponsors are justifiably wary of PHP packages after seeing many others being flamed to a crisp by the security team and ftp-master team. Personally, I won't touch PHP packages ever again - I'm reconsidering my own PHP in favour of perl and if I could do without php on my own servers, I would. Although there are PHP applications that are a security nightmare, there are well-written applications just as well. This goes for any programming language. OK, PHP has more than a fair share but, yes, there are some good PHP applications. However, the reputation of PHP is enough to hinder sponsorship of new PHP packages, IMHO. New PHP packages, in my experience, are extremely unlikely to be of sufficient quality to compare with the few good PHP packages that exist in Debian. Even good PHP applications have more security implications than a good C package, IMHO. I've heard of Ruby-on-rails being discussed in the same worried tones as PHP but I don't know Ruby. I know PHP, I write PHP, I could sponsor PHP but I won't because the security implications of PHP would keep me awake at night. As I said, I have enough worries about what little PHP I use myself. Plus, I've surely not seen anyone being flamed [...] by the security team, let alone to crisp, (Some of that happened off-list and one of the people involved is well-known to me due to interests outside Debian. I can vouch that some of the off-list stuff was easily described as 'flaming to a crisp'.) let even further alone those many people you're talking about, and find the suggestion that we would act in such a way a bit offensive. Mentors might not, others certainly have done. It doesn't serve the list to pretend that security and PHP are not poor bedfellows or that PHP will not invite some very firm, very pointed and extremely critical responses outside this list. Please, this mailinglist is intended as a friendly place to get help and sponsorship on your packages. It would be helpful to write in a more balanced tone than you used in this email. There is a difference being friendly and being firm. There are clear problems that, IMHO, sufficiently explain the reasons for not looking at any PHP packages at this time. I don't care if I do dismiss PHP without review - I think that requests to sponsor PHP deserve to be dismissed unseen at this time, for the reasons I have already explained. I strongly recommend any maintainer on this list and waiting for a sponsor, to look exclusively at existing packages rather than new and specifically at packages that have RC bugs at the expense of anything else. Right now, NEW packages simply do not matter. IMHO, until Lenny is released, NEW == waste of time and a new PHP package is even worse, let alone TWO. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: RFS: desktop-data-model
OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du mercredi 27 août 2008, vers 01:36, Julien Lavergne [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : You set DM-Upload-Allowed in debian/control while you are not a Debian Maintainer (but your co-uploader is). Moreover, I don't know your packaging skills so I can't upload the package with this field set. Please remove it. Done, and uploaded to mentors. I'll see with the co-uploader what we'll do for futur upload. OK. I have uploaded it. -- panic(Aarggh: attempting to free lock with active wait queue - shoot Andy); 2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/fs/locks.c pgpwr1tHvmjxz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I want to contribute to Debian
OoO Pendant le journal télévisé du mercredi 27 août 2008, vers 20:14, Fabio Balzano [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : I need some advice where I can start, and where I can find a contact to receive first job. Hi Fabio! Nobody will assign you tasks. You need to find in what area you will be able to help Debian. Here is a start page: http://www.debian.org/intro/help -- /* Nobody will ever see this message :-) */ panic(Cannot initialize video hardware\n); 2.0.38 /usr/src/linux/arch/m68k/atari/atafb.c pgpSMcsZHXL6c.pgp Description: PGP signature
RFS: apf-firewall (2nd attempt)
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package apf-firewall. * Package name: apf-firewall Version : 9.6+rev4-1 Upstream Author : R-fx Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.r-fx.org/apf.php * License : GPL Section : net It builds these binary packages: apf-firewall - easy iptables based firewall system The package appears to be lintian clean. The upload would fix these bugs: 495284 Advanced Policy Firewall (APF) is an iptables(netfilter) based firewall system designed around the essential needs of today's Internet deployed servers and the unique needs of custom deployed Linux installations. The configuration of APF is designed to be very informative and present the user with an easy to follow process, from top to bottom of the configuration file. The management of APF on a day-to-day basis is conducted from the command line with the 'apf' command, which includes detailed usage information and all the features one would expect from a current and forward thinking firewall solution. Summary of features: * detailed and well commented configuration file * granular inbound and outbound network filtering * user id based outbound network filtering * application based network filtering * trust based rule files with an optional advanced syntax * global trust system where rules can be downloaded from a central management server * reactive address blocking (RAB), next generation in-line intrusion prevention * debug mode provided for testing new features and configuration setups * fast load feature that allows for 1000+ rules to load in under 1 second * inbound and outbound network interfaces can be independently configured * global tcp/udp port icmp type filtering with multiple methods of executing filters (drop, reject, prohibit) * configurable policies for each ip on the system with convenience variables to import settings * packet flow rate limiting that prevents abuse on the most widely abused protocol, icmp * prerouting and postrouting rules for optimal network performance * dshield.org block list support to ban networks exhibiting suspicious activity * spamhaus Don't Route Or Peer List support to ban known hijacked zombie IP blocks * any number of additional interfaces may be configured as firewalled (untrusted) or trusted (not firewalled) * additional firewalled interfaces can have there own unique firewall policies applied * intelligent route verification to prevent embarrassing configuration errors * advanced packet sanity checks to make sure traffic coming and going meets the strictest of standards * filter attacks such as fragmented UDP, port zero floods, stuffed routing, arp poisoning and more * configurable type of service options to dictate the priority of different types of network traffic * intelligent default settings to meet every day server setups * dynamic configuration of your servers local DNS revolvers into the firewall * optional filtering of common p2p applications * optional filtering of private reserved IP address space The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/apf-firewall - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/a/apf-firewall/apf-firewall_9.6+rev4-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Giuseppe Iuculano signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: I want to contribute to Debian
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:14:06 Fabio Balzano wrote: Hello, I am Fabio Balzano, I write from Italy, I use debian sinc 1999 and currentli I am system administrator of different systems for my customers all debian based. I also made VOIP systems asterisk based with custom modifications and c modules. Hello Fabio, thanks for your offer to help improving Debian! I want to help Debian and *I can: -write bash scripts -write python applications -perl basic level -c basic level -write html pages -translate docs -try to fix bugs -VOIP expert (asterisk...) I believe Debian VoIP group pkg-voip-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org would love to get some help maintaining asterisk. I need some advice where I can start, and where I can find a contact to receive first job. Well, the most hectic part now is fixing Release Critical bugs [1]. These are mostly things one need to test a bit, reproduce the problem, and find a way to produce a decent fix. You can try to deal with some of these, and send a patch to BTS (bug tracking system) in case of success. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 20:23, Neil Williams wrote: Plus, I've surely not seen anyone being flamed [...] by the security team, let alone to crisp, (Some of that happened off-list and one of the people involved is well-known to me due to interests outside Debian. I can vouch that some of the off-list stuff was easily described as 'flaming to a crisp'.) let even further alone those many people you're talking about, and find the suggestion that we would act in such a way a bit offensive. Mentors might not, others certainly have done. It doesn't serve the list to pretend that security and PHP are not poor bedfellows or that PHP will not invite some very firm, very pointed and extremely critical responses outside this list. Whatever you personally think of PHP, I'm not charmed with you making allegations on a public forum that many people were flamed to crisp by the team I am a member of, but then fail to support that statement when asked where you base it on. If you want to make statements that put a team in a bad light in a public forum you'll have to be prepared to back them up. It seems to boil down to trust me, I once heard somewhere that a person was flamed by a security team member. I think it's evident that I'm not charmed by you postulating that many people were flamed by that team, suggesting structural issues, without presenting a piece of material on that. I believe that only helps to set a negative atmosphere around that team. Thijs pgpLQDFGm0UsX.pgp Description: PGP signature
RFS: wmaker-data (updated package)
Dear mentors, My habitual sponsor said me he is busy. I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 0.9~3-2 of my package wmaker-data. Please review it VERY CAREFULLY as it is a major refactoring of the package to use format 3.0 (quilt) of Debian source packages. It builds these binary packages: wmaker-data - several free icons for use with WindowMaker and others The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmaker-data - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wmaker-data/wmaker-data_0.9~3-2.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Noel David Torres Taño signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 20:50 +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: Whatever you personally think of PHP, I'm not charmed with you making allegations on a public forum that many people were flamed to crisp by the team I am a member of, but then fail to support that statement when asked where you base it on. If you want to make statements that put a team in a bad light in a public forum you'll have to be prepared to back them up. It wasn't meant to put any team in a bad light - it was meant to indicate that PHP is not without security problems and that ignoring previous problems will not bring favour with the security team. 'flame' had an unintended connotation for the team concerned. I apologise for that. :-) It seems to boil down to trust me, I once heard somewhere that a person was flamed by a security team member. Actually, it was more that someone I know got a robust (but, IMHO, accurate) response from the security team which was not to their liking. i.e. other direction. The responses that resulted were not necessarily from any particular team (or without due cause). Here is not the place to go into details. I think it's evident that I'm not charmed by you postulating that many people were flamed by that team, suggesting structural issues, without presenting a piece of material on that. I believe that only helps to set a negative atmosphere around that team. That was not my intention - indeed, nothing was intended to reflect on the team itself, merely on the choice of language involved. In many ways, the responses of the security team were fully deserved and intended as a warning to maintainers of PHP code that insecure PHP code will get a robust response that might not be particularly friendly. ;-) Sorry. -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Becoming a new contributor
The program is a slideshow-type photo viewer. More specifically, it is meant give this functionality on older systems not running Gnome or KDE (like mine). It is quite simple, has no extra features such as zooming, and so far only supports the JPEG format. It is all original work, so I am putting it in the public domain. It is written in C. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RFS: wmaker-data (updated package)
Hi, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: Please review it VERY CAREFULLY as it is a major refactoring of the package to use format 3.0 (quilt) of Debian source packages. I thought format 3.0 source packages are not yet allowed on the official Debian archive? Or did I miss something? Regards, Ansgar -- PGP: 1024D/595FAD19 739E 2D09 0969 BEA9 9797 B055 DDB0 2FF7 595F AD19 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#496544: RFS: reportbug-ng (closes RC #496544)\
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote [edited]: On Wednesday 27 August 2008 09:09, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: For future reference, where is this information recorded? http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/reportbug-ng.html shows: [..] Thanks Thijs. I must have only checked the package's bts page, where the cited bug isn't listed because it's archived. I find it counter-intuitive that a bug with such a significance to the package's fate is archived. -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want to contribute to Debian
Hello Fabio, On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:14:06PM +0200, Fabio Balzano wrote [edited]: Hello, I am Fabio Balzano, I write from Italy, I use debian sinc 1999 and currentli I am system administrator of different systems for my customers all debian based. I also made VOIP systems asterisk based with custom modifications and c modules. I want to help Debian and [..] Check out a couple of recent posts for newcomers: http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/08/msg00385.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2008/08/msg00395.html Cheers, Serafeim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want to contribute to Debian
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:14:06 +0200, Fabio Balzano wrote: I want to help Debian and Great! I need some advice where I can start, and where I can find a contact to receive first job. An easy way for contributing to Debian way is to join one of the existing teams: http://wiki.debian.org/Teams Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `-NP: Flying Pickets: Masters of war signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: s3d
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package s3d. * Package name: s3d Version : 0.2.1-1 Upstream Author : Sven Eckelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Wunderlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://s3d.berlios.de/ * License : GPL-2+, LGPL-2.1+ Section : net It builds these binary packages: dotmcp - mcp for s3d kism3d - 802.11 visualizer for s3d libs3d-dev - 3d network display server library - development files libs3d2- 3d network display server library libs3dw-dev - 3d network display server widget library - development files libs3dw2 - 3d network display server meshs3d- olsr/batman topology visualizer for s3d s3d- 3d network display server s3d-data - 3d network display server data files s3d-dbg- 3d network display server (debug files) s3d-doc- Documentation for s3d s3dfm - s3d file manager s3dosm - gps card application for s3d s3dvt - 3d terminal emulator for s3d s3dx11gate - 3d gateway for x11 desktops The package appears to be lintian clean. The package can be found on mentors.debian.net: - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s3d - Source repository: deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free - dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/s3d/s3d_0.2.1-1.dsc I would be glad if someone uploaded this package for me. Kind regards Sven Eckelmann signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RFS: package TextTrainer
I'm looking for a sponsor for TextTrainer, a small learning helper written in c++ / qt4. The software is licensed under the GPL. Description: program which helps you learn native or foreign language texts by heart . TextTrainer is a program which helps you memorise poems or plain texts in your native or in some foreign language. You learn by repeatedly reading aloud texts while more and more words are hidden (i.e. replaced by _). This will help you learning a poem, parts of your text for a play, or basic phrases of a foreign language before you go on holiday. . Data files for TextTrainer can contain the plain text, as well as translations and pronounciation guides. Data files can be created with TextTrainer itself, or with any standard text editor. . Some example texts can be found in /usr/share/texttrainer/data, other texts can be installed via separate packages, or you can create your own. There is also an html-documentation (with screenshots): http://home.arcor.de/j_kanev/texttrainer.html The package can be found here: http://home.arcor.de/j_kanev/software/debian/pool/main/t/texttrainer/texttrainer_0.0.0_i386.deb or just add deb http://home.arcor.de/j_kanev/software/debian unstable main to your apt/sources.list. Lintian reports neither errors nor warnings. I would be very nice if somebody were interested in this little piece of software. Learning texts this way really works, and I find it to be quicker and more reliable than other methods. The thing looks quite neat (qt4, using KDE icons), and I use it quite often. So, I guess this would be nice to have in Debian? Lots of regards, Jacob. -- Setting Orange, 21st of Bureaucracy, 3174. jacob kanev eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (any eMail with attached Microsoft-only files will be regarded as spam) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?
Vincent Bernat wrote: OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du mercredi 27 août 2008, vers 18:24, Andreas Schildbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] disait : phpmyid - standalone, single user, OpenID identity provider http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/phpmyid You can try to ask for sponsorship in Debian PHP team. However, this team is essentially dedicated to maintaining PHP. Therefore, I am not sure that you will get an answer for this one. I not being a DD have reviewed several php packages on -mentors hoping to increase a little bit the quality of php packages around but these have so many 'issues' that I haven't had enough time to write something appropriate. Andreas, please don't take these wrong but your packages really need a lot of changes and reading the documentation and looking at different packages and even reading the reviews posted for other packages could help you understand what needs to be changed in your packages. Once they are in a better shape they could then be polished. Oh, and of course, here I'm just talking about the Debian packaging, but the code often needs a review to attempt to prevent security problems right from the start. wordpress-openid - OpenID consumer plugin for WordPress http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wordpress-openid Wordpress maintainer may be interested to help you in sponsoring this package. Unfortunately, Wordpress maintainer is not a DD... (xlintian is an alias to the dev copy of lintian on my machine, which also happens to have a couple or more checks that should/will be added to lintian). $ xlintian -I -E *.dsc I: wordpress-openid source: debian-watch-file-is-missing I: wordpress-openid source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 7 I: phpmyid source: package-lacks-versioned-build-depends-on-debhelper 7 $ xlintian -I -E *.changes X: wordpress-openid: embedded-pear-module usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/openid/Log/error_log.php X: wordpress-openid: embedded-pear-module usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/openid/Log/file.php X: wordpress-openid: embedded-pear-module usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/openid/Log/null.php X: wordpress-openid: embedded-pear-module usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/openid/OpenIDLog.php W: wordpress-openid: copyright-lists-upstream-authors-with-dh_make-boilerplate E: phpmyid: copyright-should-refer-to-common-license-file-for-gpl Cheers, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Becoming a new contributor
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:26 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The program is a slideshow-type photo viewer. Does this program have a homepage on the internet where it can be downloaded ? It is all original work, Is it your work ? Have you registered a request for package (RFP) as described on this page ? http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/#l2 Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: I want to contribute to Debian
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Vincent Bernat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nobody will assign you tasks. I disagree, getting people to ask you to do stuff is easy (world peace please), deciding which task(s) to do is the hard part. You need to find in what area you will be able to help Debian. Here is a start page: http://www.debian.org/intro/help Yes, finding something you can do, enjoy doing and or need to do is the best way to get involved in Debian and stay involved. IMO the most important thing right now is fixing RC bugs. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sponsor found for weeks, what to do now?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Raphael Geissert
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(xlintian is an alias to the dev copy of lintian on my machine, which also
happens to have a couple or more checks that should/will be added to
lintian).
Probably, people on mentors will love to use your xlintian :)
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