Bug#623932: video output completely garbled

Package: totem Version: 2.30.2-6 Severity: important I'm following unstable on my laptop. Since a few days (10-14, IIRC) the video output in totem is completely garbled, see attached screenshot. During playbacks, those bars move and change color, accordingly to the proper ongoing scene. The audio

Bug#24326: sysklogd: diff for NMU version 1.5-6.1, DELAYED/15

lways welcome! You can find patched packages at <http://people.debian.org/~zack/sysklogd/>. Please try it out and report any issue. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/

Bug#623746: add a --bindmounts flag (a la pbuilder)

Package: schroot Version: 1.4.21-1+b1 Severity: wishlist [ I'm reporting this as requested by maintainer, to document a specific use case ] It would be nice to have a --bindmounts flag, similar to the very same flag in pbuilder / cowbuilder. The latter changes on the fly the list of bind mounts

Bug#623196: Debian trademark use

Package: www.debian.org On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:26:53AM +0800, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 06:23:12PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > > IIRC debian.ch was officially granted by the DPL (Anthony Towns in > > November 2006) the use of the Debian trademark, bu

Bug#622274: blends linked from the main debian page

rs. [1] BTW, for that to become a reality, it would be better if the Blends team at large (+ other relevant subprojects) consider turning into a proper WML page the index currently at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianPureBlends -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @

Bug#622274: blends linked from the main debian page

11:24:26AM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > I like a lot the idea of providing links to blends from the Debian > > homepage [1], thanks for proposing (and revamping) the idea! However, > > from the above paragraph I do no

Bug#620686: document how to deal with technically negligent developers

Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.4 Severity: normal There is a recurrent unpleasant topic on various Debian lists. From time to time, we read complaints that specific maintainers are not fit to be Debian Developers (anymore) because, allegedly, they are not doing job at maintaining one o

Bug#548867: Proposed patch to update Debian Developer's Duties chapter

ough consensus, we should be ready to accept the result of that. What else do you think we can learn from this exchange? Please, everybody, let's try to keep active the development around devref, as we really need it! Thanks you all for your work. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Comput

Bug#619822: sidebar no longer display the correct count of new messages in maildirs

Package: mutt-patched Version: 1.5.21-3 Severity: important Since the following upgrade on march 23rd (excerpt from /var/log/aptitude): [UPGRADE] mutt-patched 1.5.20-9+squeeze1 -> 1.5.21-3 the mutt-patched sidebar no longer display the appropriate count of new messages in any of my maildirs. R

Bug#613832: Bug#61383Re: www.debian.org: Debian sister association in the merchandise page

It is already difficult > to maintain the current list, given that apart the status of the vendor > (easily verifiable, just visit the website), there is no way to verify: > first, if they are behaving correctly WRT the customers (shipping on > time the selected goodies) and, second,

Bug#548867: Proposed patch to update Debian Developer's Duties chapter

ared feeling among Debian Developer, although I've no data that back that.) As the release process is shepherded by the release team, collaborating with the release team and supporting their choices is a way to support the release process. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer

Bug#573745: ping

ludes the current maintainer and has rough consensus on -python. Would the CTTE be willing to establish such a team as Python interpreter maintainers, even in absence of an explicit public ACK by the current maintainer? (I duly notice that if the answer to the above is "no", we h

Bug#616711: segfault at start with libncursesw5 5.8-1

Package: newsbeuter Version: 2.4-1 Severity: serious After upgrading libncursesw5 from 5.7+20100313-5 to 5.8-1, newsbeuter started segfaulting at startup (no matter if invoked with -r or not). Reverting libncursesw5 to 5.7+20100313-5, currently in testing, fixes the problem. I'm not sure if the p

Bug#616548: please ship upstream documentation for offline reading

Package: puppet Version: 2.6.5-1 Severity: wishlist As per subject, it would be wonderful to have a puppet-doc package shipping the documentation available at . Rationale: although online documentation is handy, sometimes it's really useful to have documentation availa

Bug#545325: enable/disable support in /usr/sbin/service

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:05AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > So the mv command above *is* the current method. And we're in desperate > need of a better one. Right, this is the technical problem to solve: find one (handy) method to enable/disable services and "bless" it as the recommended one

Bug#573745: ping

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:57:17AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As ~2 more months have passed without a comment, I can't do any better > than pinging the CTTE again, AOL-ing the text above (especially the last > paragraph). > > As the decision is fully in the hands of t

Bug#616342: dpkg-query: add the ability to dump the entire dpkg database

h best effort to find appropriate usertags). On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 05:30:42PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Is there a way to ask dpkg-query to dump all the information contained > in /var/lib/dpkg/status without either having to: (1) list all fields > explicitly (using --show + --sh

Bug#615073: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:27:53PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page > (e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a > plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bo

Bug#615073: lintian.debian.org: provide (dd-)list of packages affected by a specific tag

Package: lintian Version: 2.4.3 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if lintian.d.o could provide, for each tag-specific page (e.g. http://lintian.debian.org/tags/description-contains-homepage.html), a plain text list of all packages affected by the tag. An extra bonus would be providing both a pla

Bug#613832: Bug#61383Re: www.debian.org: Debian sister association in the merchandise page

sort them according to which percentage of merchandise they give back to Debian (higher percentage first). That would be a fair criteria, useful to Debian finances. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -&l

Bug#607193: document various download options/locations for Squeeze CD images

oth pages, that's probably the best way to go (I'm too rusty with WML to propose a patch for that). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano

Bug#583670: RSS feed for Debian news?

ce to subscribe to the feed you prepared, unless she know its URL by heart. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 zack@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |.

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

this argument seems to be orthogonal to my proposal, in the following sense. *If* ftpmaster disallow too small packages, you need a technical way to coalesce several small upstream tarballs into a single Debian source package. That is something which you can do with source formats 3.0, so you would

Bug#610298: phasing out tar-in-tar in source packages

Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.1.0 Severity: wishlist tar-in-tar source packages, i.e. Debian source packages which contains upstream sources in compressed form and uncompress them on the fly during the build process, are a bit of a PITA. They are particularly so for tools who want to do sour

Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

ield as well. So be it. I still don't get how the versioned Format URL will look like once DEP5 will be shipped by debian-policy though. Would it use the Vcs-Browser of the debian-policy package or ...? Just curious. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Pa

Bug#609215: embedding PDF readers in chromium steals mouse pointer and lock X session

Package: mozplugger Version: 1.14.2-1 Severity: important In my quest to decent PDF support with chromium, I gave mozplugger a try. I've tried it with both xpdf and evince. In both cases, the PDF opens fine within the browser, but as soon as I click into the embedded window I completely lose contr

Bug#608922: ITP: matlab -- integrate local Matlab installations into the Debian system

t of matlab might be misleading (cfr. 'octave-integration'). As a second choice, how about 'matlab-support'? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando

Bug#607015: gwibber: accepts and silently discards messages

y any .service files Needlessly to say, I do have installed the needed gwibber-service-* packages. I've no problem in receiving messages though. Thanks for maintaining gwibber, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussie

Bug#608400: re-organize how to contribute documentation "per-profile"

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Out of curiosity in response to various DPL inquiries about "how can I help Debian?", I've reviewed a bit the various pieces of documentation on the subject and compared it with what other distros do. A remarkable difference seems to be a "per-profile" org

Bug#573745: ping

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 09:16:32PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > All that said, one of the few remaining actions I can take on this > issue is to friendly ping the tech-ctte to actually decide on this > issue, open for 7 months now. I do think tech-ctte is a very useful > device i

Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

be best if this matter would be decided upon before > the release of Squeeze, or not too long after it, so as to avoid > further breakages in early kernel updates for Squeeze. +1 Just my 0.02€, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{up

Bug#607193: document various download options/locations for Squeeze CD images

Package: www.debian.org Severity: important Starting with Debian Squeeze, there will be (more) download options/locations for CD images, be them netinst/complete/etc. In particular, users of specific pieces of hardware will be affected by the choice of images containing (or not) non-free firmware

Bug#607191: document that non-free Linux firmware has been moved to non-free

Package: release-notes Severity: important Starting from Squeeze, non-free Linux firmware has been moved to non-free. This is a great achievement for Debian! Still, we should take care that the poor users that are forced to use non-free firmware, as they own hardware for which no DFSG-free firmwa

Bug#607085: unable to get remote files via ssh (missing "object/" path component?)

Package: git-annex Version: 0.12 Severity: normal Heya, in a very simple setup, I'm unable to get files from the remote repository, apparently because git-annex omits an "object/" path component. Here is a log (where I've replaced "MYMACHINE" for the actual host name):

Bug#607056: "git+ssh://" protocol in remotes induces "unsupported url" error

Package: git-annex Version: 0.12 Severity: minor Using "git+ssh" URL scheme in Git remotes makes git-annex fail with "unsupported url in repo" errors when trying to move files across git-annex-ed remotes. It works well with "ssh://". Given that Git supports both "ssh://" and "git+ssh://" it woul

Bug#606481: python-peak.util: missing pointer to upstream sources

n have a look at that (possibly even dropping me from Uploaders, as my attention span for tg2 related packages is quite low these days). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.c

Bug#384287: Reportbug not translated (Was: Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived)

English, to maximize the chances that the maintainer can look into it and help the submitter. Now, we "only" need someone providing a patch :-) Just my 0.02€, cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.

Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived

TOH, if it can be fixed by simply changing a string which is already there, it might be easier to have it in. Unfortunately, it will require translations though... Thanks for your quick feedback, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.

Bug#605892: please state that mails will be publically archived

tp://bugs.debian.org/XX";. The text can probably be improved and also blended with some other message that reportbug is already reporting. How about that? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -&l

Bug#579786: Bug#604968: w3-recs: Package is out-of-date

I doubt there is any room for an updated version for Squeeze (which is unfortunate), but it would be nice to have the package up to date in unstable, as its dependencies make it trivial to install it from any Debian suite. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostD

Bug#604798: missing dependency on python-gnome2

Package: python-gnomeapplet Version: 2.30.0-3 Severity: serious python-gnomeapplet seems to be missing a dependecy on the package providing Python module bonobo.ui. In a sid chroot updated today, installing python-gnomeapplet (via apt-get) I get the following: >>> import gnomeapplet Traceback

Bug#603939: libbz2-ocaml-dev: missing dependency to libbz2-dev

won't have much time to take care of it in the next weeks. If you really can't have a look, please ask on d-o-m or let me know. I would also appreciate if you could take the chance of this upload to remove me from Uploaders. Many thanks in advance! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o-

Bug#573745: ping

let me know, I'll gladly do whatever I can and/or I'm empowered to. Thanks a lot for your work, you've all my sympathies for the decision you're asked to make. Cheers. PS I appreciate Cc:-s to lea...@d.o if you want to get my attention -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Comp

Bug#602594: consider splitting a separate package for gnome-panel-control

Package: openbox Version: 3.4.11.1-1 Severity: wishlist Heya, it looks like that several GNOME users, which are favoring over window managers over metacity, face a recurrent problem: how do I invoke the GNOME run dialog from the command line? I've seen instances of the same problem at least in X

Bug#602211: add timestamp information to dm_list.html

;) Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash >From e3d5c1fa036c9a90af423bef9b8c8b55a694e620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefano Zacchiroli Date: Tue, 2 Nov 20

Bug#587664: Bug#587482: The Debian open logo with "Debian" is not compliant to the Debian policy (RC bugs #587482, #587664 and #587668)

as "naked licensing" [1] the Debian trademark. I still hope to find some DFSG-free way out of it, but the issue looks tricky and I seriously doubt it can be solved in time for Squeeze. Cheers. [1] http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Naked_license -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Sci

Bug#601605: fbreader should register as a handler for the application/epub+zip mime type

clone 601605 -1 retitle -1 fbreader desktop entry should declare application/epub+zip mime type thanks On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:45:37PM -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > As per subject. Similarly, it would be nice if the .desktop file for fbreader would declare a MimeType=... line wh

Bug#601605: fbreader should register as a handler for the application/epub+zip mime type

Package: fbreader Version: 0.10.7dfsg-4 Severity: normal As per subject. Thanks a lot for maintaining fbreader! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (

Bug#600617: completion for ip (as in /bin/ip)

Package: bash-completion Version: 1:1.2-2 Severity: wishlist As per subject: having bash completion for /bin/ip would be awesome. Thanks for maintaining bash-completion! -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Ar

Bug#600401: please merge the package into python-debian

Package: python-popcon Severity: important Dear Bastian, thanks a lot for python-popcon, it's a pretty neat hack! However, I've noticed that it consists of just 56 lines of Python code. Do we really need a separate binary package just for it? How about contributing a "popcon" module to the pyth

Bug#599302: plone is gone in Squeeze: need mention in release notes

tags 599302 + help thanks On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 01:03:10AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 04:24:58PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Plone will be no longer in Debian (stable), starting with Squeeze. As > > discussed > > in

Bug#595178: plymouth: bug still present

tags 595178 - unreproducible thanks On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 04:59:15PM +0200, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: > Same problem here on two different machines. > I am also using GDM. AOL (on both). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsi

Bug#599302: plone is gone in Squeeze: need mention in release notes

Package: release-notes Severity: normal Tags: squeeze Plone will be no longer in Debian (stable), starting with Squeeze. As discussed in private with the (ex-)Plone maintainer, Cc:-ed, this needs mention in the release notes for at least two reasons: explain why this is the case, point sysadms who

Bug#599060: Homepage field should point to http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Package: duplicity Version: 0.6.09-4 Severity: minor Heya, thanks for maintaining duplicity! Looking around on the web, it seems to me that http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ would be a more appropriate value for the Homepage field of the package, as the current one is a development project which is ap

Bug#597726: "simple-subdir" repo style makes apt-get fail with "Unable to find expected entry Sources in Meta-index file"

Package: mini-dinstall Version: 0.6.28 Severity: important I've tried to switch a mini-dinstall managed repository from "flat" style to "simple-subdir" style, to better separate architectures. After doing so (and switching sources.list appropriately of course) I've APT (from unstable) fail as foll

Bug#596648: identify via oauth as an application called "ubuntu"

tags 596648 + confirmed thanks On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:00:05AM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:38 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > [ disclaimer: I know the version I'm using is currently in NEW, I'm using > >  maintainer packages, assuming i

Bug#596648: identify via oauth as an application called "ubuntu"

Package: gwibber Version: 2.31.91-1 Severity: normal [ disclaimer: I know the version I'm using is currently in NEW, I'm using maintainer packages, assuming in good faith they are the same as the one uploaded to experimental ] Thanks a bucnh for a Gwibber versoin that gets past the #oauthapoc

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

might be written as simply as you just did, but it's still something this ITP is waiting for. Bottom line: this thread could have probably been spared entirely, by providing a long description matching the above criteria since the beginning. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Compute

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

the "webfs" package to document what more woof has to offer. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Quando anche i santi ti voltano le spalle, | . |. I've fans

Bug#595916: "axi-cache search" broken: TypeError: 'MSetItem' object does not support indexing

Package: apt-xapian-index Version: 0.38 Severity: important "axi-cache search" fails with the following exception: z...@usha:~$ axi-cache search web::server 74 results found. Results 1-20: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/axi-cache", line 632, in sys.exit(ui.pe

Bug#595820: ITP: woof -- A small, simple, stupid webserver to share files

wise to have long descriptions ready at ITP-submission time: thread like this one might have been avoided completely, thanks to a convincing long description :-) Thanks for your packaging work! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pp

Bug#592457: severity of 592457 is serious

decs and > you to have reassigned this bug. I'm not sure what is the goal of making such a list, but feel free to add me to it: hadn't Philipp done the reassign, I would have done it myself. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...

Bug#590753: gobby-0.5 should be the default gobby

Package: gobby-0.5 Version: 0.4.93-1 Severity: normal As per subject and as discussed with the package maintainer: now that gobby 0.5 it's stable, it owes to be the default gobby. That means that "apt-get install gobby" should install the infinote / 0.5 series, rather than the 0.4. If you don't t

Bug#590214: support for submitting bug reports via http

ure request on debbugs (I haven't yet checked whether the latter request already exists or not). Cheers PS that thread just made me try again the GTK2 UI of reportbug: it's just *great* nowadays, kudos! -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Par

Bug#553698: gwibber 2.x, testing feedback

user? I believe quite some people unfamiliar with (desktop)couch will it that nail. Is that a bug / missing configuration generality in couchdb by any means? Nevertheless, I'm now denting with gwibber2 \o/ I'll report further feedback if anything relevant appears in the next few day

Bug#553698: gwibber 2.x, testing feedback

bber2 ;)). Given the "permission denied" warnings, I added my user to the couchdb group, but still gwibber does not start. The overall failure is the same, just the "permission denied" warnings disappear. (Unrelated: whether the user should or should not be in the "couchdb&

Bug#553698: gwibber 2.31.2 is out, desktopcouch is available

quot; but not in Debian yet. Elliot asked for review, also in light of this bug, but no one replied in the bug log. You can probably help by reviewing that and/or prepare a (sponsored) upload. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.c

Bug#586333: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:48:49PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Uhm, I come with bad news. I've played a bit with it and it does not Interestingly enough, using the package default (i.e. not a single default from the "desktop" profile), and adding one of {/var/run, /va

Bug#586333: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

dition of profile support in README or README.Debian and maybe even in NEWS.Debian. IMHO it is quite important and it took me a while before finding out that it was documented in the schroot.conf(5) manpage. Many thanks for your work, it's a pleasure to work with such a reactive maintainer :-) C

Bug#586333: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

ly this is just resolv.conf, but any > other stuff needed by X or other things in the user's session could be > copied here. Ditto. Many thanks for schroot! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.

Bug#586333: [buildd-tools-devel] Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

d/or > the upstream docs and include the above mount options for gdm if > that sounds OK. Wonderful, it sounds like a plan. If I were the maintainer, I'll probably also add a FAQ file mentioning this, as I believe it will become a recurrent question. YMMV, of course. Thanks for your qui

Bug#586333: mount /var/run/gdm3 by default (?)

Package: schroot Version: 1.4.4-1 Severity: wishlist I've recently switched from gdm to gdm3, and I've just discovered that such a switch inhibits seamless usage of X11 apps from schroot-managed chroots (usually using "schroot -p ..."). I'm using the above to run 32bits apps on my 64bits machine,

Bug#586186: developers-reference: mention DD certificates in "Goodies for Developers" section

t Teams/DPL, i.e. "no vanity certificates, please" as it takes anyhow some time to prepare them TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande

Bug#586077: new list: debian-deritvati...@lists.d.o

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 08:30:26PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > Web Archive > > > No. > > > > Any specific reason for that? I would have guessed, that derivatise > > have similar questions, so a web archive would be of help. Oh well, I just ch

Bug#586077: new list: debian-deritvati...@lists.d.o

to be publicly archived and > > pointed out as "see how unfriendly they are". > With open subscription you should expect other web archives / nntp gateways > to subscribe to that list. Sure, I don't particularly mind/fear that, but thanks for worrying about this detail :-) Chee

Bug#586077: new list: debian-deritvati...@lists.d.o

want them to check *doc* first and I don't think the list archive should be a substitute for that (and not having it would help in not exchanging one for the other). Anyhow, I don't have any strong opinion on this, just a preference. Thanks for your feedback! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiro

Bug#586077: new list: debian-deritvati...@lists.d.o

Package: lists.debian.org Severity: wishlist As discussed off-BTS with Alexander Wirt, I'm hereby requesting the creation of this list. Please find below the list information; I've followed the template available at , I hope you find it conveni

Bug#583670: please provide a RSS/Atom feed for news items on the homepage

Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Heya, it would be great to have a RSS and/or Atom feed for the news section of the Debian homepage (and possibly a different one for the advisories listed there too). I know it's stuff one can already follow via mailing list(s), but a lot of people these

Bug#582725: packages.qa.debian.org do not link to l10n status for some packages

not terribly informed, is that the current one is a reasonable compromise. HTH, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è

Bug#582038: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please link to UbuntuDiff

a for Debian, etc.). Doing that before seems like overengineering to me (unless you claim that doing that can actually *encourage* other derivatives to do the same, but I'm personally a bit skeptical on that). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7

Bug#582132: closed by Tobias Quathamer (Re: Processed: patch to fill the auditor role)

an Auditor patch I proposed (my fault, I should have noticed earlier): - there's no contact address, can you please add ? - there's no explanation of the position, can you please hyperlink "auditor" to http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Auditor ? TIA! Cheers. -- Stefano Za

Bug#582132: patch to fill the auditor role

tags 582132 + patch thanks Here is the trivial patch to fill the auditor vacant role. (it took me just the time to remember how to use CVS :-)) Thanks in advance for considering! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr

Bug#582144: please mention DM under /devel/ and link to the DM list

Package: www.debian.org Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi web maintainers!, Enrico Zini has just set up this page https://nm.debian.org/dm_list.html to list Debian Maintainers and the package the maintain. To give a bit more credit to the work that Debian Maintainers do for Debian, I think we s

Bug#582132: intro/organization: mention Luk Claes as the Debian auditor

Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Hello world, the "Debian Auditor" role listed at http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is currently reported as vacant, whereas Luk Claes has been recently delegated to that role. Can you please fix that? Many thanks for your work! Cheers. -- System

Bug#553698: gwibber 2.30 is out, desktopcouch is available

cing-gwibber-2-30/, that there exists also a sqlite backend which does not need desktopcouch; no idea if it's viable or not, but I thought it could be a good idea to mention it here. Many thanks for your quick reply, Kartik. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ U

Bug#553698: gwibber 2.30 is out, desktopcouch is available

.30 in Squeeze? Thanks, again, and a lot, for your work on gwibber. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si j

Bug#582038: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please link to UbuntuDiff

clipped to the '+' lines and I obviously missed the which was already there in the context. The patch looks fine. (Next time, dear Zack, don't reply to a patch proposal before the morning coffee.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ.

Bug#582038: qa.debian.org: [PTS] Please link to UbuntuDiff

PTS, I'm copying Lucas which IIRC contributed that other information: can you please you two check that there is no overlapping in having both links? -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http:/

Bug#576788: Parallellizing the boot in Debian Squeeze - ready for wider testing

s. Nevertheless, I'm setting Reply-To/M-F-T to the bug log as apparently this sub-thread should be better continued there. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Die

Bug#576788: sysv-rc: /etc/init.d/README must be updated with boot dependency info

c/default/rcS will end up to be. Can you please consider applying this patch? Many thanks in advance, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è

Bug#573505: php-doc xml validation error caused by libxml2 / fixed by new upstream version

ngs, YMMV. Of course there are disadvantages too, such as the fact that, right now, PhD will need to pass through NEW. > In any case, I'd like to first upload a updated package, and only then > try to split them. That sounds about right. Thanks for getting back on this! Cheers. -- Stefan

Bug#573505: php-doc xml validation error caused by libxml2 / fixed by new upstream version

r on the matter from Lior. An alternative path can be to try backporting the upstream fix to the current version of the package in sid, adding the needed xmlns= attribute where needed. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.ju

Bug#579794: better user interface for (blog) comments

Package: ikiwiki Version: 3.20100427 Severity: wishlist I'm an avid user of the comment facility implemented by the "comments" plugin and I love it. Still, I find it has a usability glitch with respect to other blog comment implementations: submitting a comment is 2 clicks away from the blog post

Bug#579786: RFA: w3-recs -- Recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm looking for a new maintainer for the w3-recs package. The package is quite low maintenance as package generation is automated from the machine-parseable index of W3C rcommendations [1]. Still, it needs following the W3C feed to spot new recommendations and updat

Bug#579735: O: gtkmathview

its reverse dependencies). Fine, I'd say it would be fair to keep you as "fallback" then. Do you mind following how it goes and then, unless someone fulfilling the proposed requirement steps up, upload a version with you as the maintainer in a 7-10 days? Cheers. -- Stefano Zac

Bug#579735: O: gtkmathview

Package: wnpp Severity: normal I'm hereby orphaning the gtkmathview package. It consists of a C++ library used to render MathML documents to various backends, including GTK. Most notably, it is used to support rendering of mathematical formulae in third party applications, such as abiword. The li

Bug#520324: ITP: chromium-browser -- A web browser developed by Google based on the WebKit engine

that people can have a trust path to the .deb-s.) Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je

Bug#520324: ITP: chromium-browser -- A web browser developed by Google based on the WebKit engine

Thanks a lot and keep up the good work. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ..

Bug#520324: ITP: chromium-browser -- A web browser developed by Google based on the WebKit engine

highlight what I forgot to mention: the offer Giuseppe has already advanced of collaborating on the packaging on alioth is surely the best possible outcome of all this. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>

Bug#520324: ITP: chromium-browser -- A web browser developed by Google based on the WebKit engine

ind of issues and I think we should use them rather then simply not uploading the package and stopping other developers motivated in doing that, by fiddling with the owner of this ITP. If you ask me, I'd like Giuseppe to take back ownership of this bug report and go ahead with the packag

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