Bug#563133: ITP: libtemplate-tiny-perl -- lightweight implementation of Template Toolkit

2009-12-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtemplate-tiny-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Tiny/ * Licens

Bug#563131: ITP: libdebug-client-perl -- module to debug Perl programs remotely

2009-12-30 Thread Jonathan Yu
Package: wnpp Owner: Jonathan Yu Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdebug-client-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Gabor Szabo * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Debug-Client/ * License

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Sam Morris
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:28:52 +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 30 décembre 2009, vers 12:03, > Gabor Gombas disait : > >>> If this is a real question, put: >>> 127.0.1.1 fqdn nodename >>> >>> This seems a very acceptable way to give a FQDN to your lapto

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Brian May
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 03:18:51PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I prefer to alocate such host names in a real domain, and give them just TXT > records or 127.0.1.1 A records in some weird cases where I can't trust the > box to not do idiotic things like go to the DNS bypassing the li

Bug#563116: ITP: rtgui -- A web based front-end for rTorrent

2009-12-30 Thread Dario Minnucci (midget)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dario Minnucci (midget)" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: rtgui Version : 0.2.7 Upstream Author : Simon Hall * URL : http://code.google.com/p/rtgui/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: PH

Re: Bug#563109: ITP: e17-modules-svn -- Misc plugins for the e17 window manager

2009-12-30 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:28:37PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Albin Tonnerre > > > * Package name: e17-modules-svn > Version : 0.16.999.063 > Upstream Author : e17 development team > > * URL : http://www.enlightenment.

Bug#563109: ITP: e17-modules-svn -- Misc plugins for the e17 window manager

2009-12-30 Thread Albin Tonnerre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Albin Tonnerre * Package name: e17-modules-svn Version : 0.16.999.063 Upstream Author : e17 development team * URL : http://www.enlightenment.org/ * License : various (GPL2, BSD, LGPL2.1) Programming Lang: C Descri

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 30 décembre 2009, vers 12:03, Gabor Gombas disait : >> If this is a real question, put: >> 127.0.1.1 fqdn nodename >> >> This seems a very acceptable way to give a FQDN to your laptop without >> relying on network. hostname -f and programs using

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> In truth, my laptop *does not have an FQDN*. The concept has no useful >> It must have, POSIX provided a way for apps to query it, and apps >> started doing that. So you need one. It will be an a

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: >> In truth, my laptop *does not have an FQDN*. The concept has no useful > It must have, POSIX provided a way for apps to query it, and apps > started doing that. So you need one. It will be an arbitrary one, but

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2009-12-29 20:23:31 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> No, it's not. You have completely misunderstood the purpose of >> /etc/mailname. > No, this is what is documented. You should RTFM. Er, yes, I have, several times. It's something that one does when one is maintaini

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Paul Wise
Your question sounds like you want autotools to automatically rebuild the intermediary files when ./configure detects the requisite build-depends. I'd suggest discussing this autotools feature request on the upstream lists instead of here. >From the debian/rules side of things; there isn't yet any

Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst

2009-12-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Reinier Haasjes writes: >> This doesn't help with any of your other dependencies, just the dependency >> on debconf (or some other DCMS implementation). > So if I understand correctly a (pre-)depend on host/dig won't help to > make sure bind/dig is installed during the config script. Correct.

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > there are several tools that generate C source code that is later > complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to > distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not > regenerated during a build. [...] > 1.

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Philipp Kern wrote: > You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to dual stack IPv4+IPv6. One point > being that with a v6-only host you're totally unable to reach IPv4 sites > without the help of application-level proxies. That's false. You can use protocol-level gateways, whi

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > In truth, my laptop *does not have an FQDN*. The concept has no useful > > It must have, POSIX provided a way for apps to query it, and apps started > doing that. So you need one. It will be an arbitrary one, but that's fine. Better c

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-12-29 17:44:31 +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > Mutt in testing/unstable use /etc/mailname. > > But not the official Mutt version. Who lets you configure the correct domain you want it to use for email addresses in its config files, although

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > If this is a real question, put: > > 127.0.1.1 fqdn nodename > > I think we're having some sort of fundamental misunderstanding or > communications gap here. What FQDN do you think I should put there? > Should I just make something up, like laptop.russ

Bug#563081: ITP: r5u87x -- firmware loader for cameras based on Ricoh R5U87x chipsets

2009-12-30 Thread David Jurenka
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Jurenka * Package name: r5u87x Version : 0.2+r62 Upstream Author : Alexander Hixon * URL : http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : firmware loader for cam

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <20091229135244.gc26...@xvii.vinc17.org> you wrote: > When the machine is correctly configured (i.e. really has a FQDN), > "hostname -f" is reliable. But note that this is Debian-specific. It is not. It is net-tools specific, hostname -f uses gethostbyname. If you only want the node nam

Re: Bug#563004: ITP: procserv -- A process server with telnet console and log access

2009-12-30 Thread Ralph Lange
Hello, On Wed 30 Dec 2009 2:07:16 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: I am curious why ssh+screen can't do the job? It would be much more secure than telnet. It would be nice to add a note in the package description. Also it is much more "à la unix" to use two tools together to do one job, each one doing one

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-30 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:09:51 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Indeed, I was doubly wrong. It is ‘dget -x’, not ‘dpkg-source -x’ that refuses > to unpack signed packages whose key is not available. JFYI: This can be changed by setting DGET_VERIFY=no in ~/.devscripts . Cheers, gregor -- .''`. h

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-30 11:56:13 +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:31:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Then you need to configure your machine according to the spec, i.e. > > you need a single FQDN / canonical name / official name of the host. > > If getaddrinfo(AI_CANONNAME) fai

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-12-29 20:23:31 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > I'm having a hard time figuring out what you think the canonical name of > my laptop could possibly be, given that it has no static IP address and no > DNS entry. It doesn't need to have a static IP, nor a DNS entry. > In practice, it's whatever

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:12:41AM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2009-12-29, Adam Borowski wrote: > > It's not "hypothetical". IPv4 sucks so badly compared to IPv6 that once you > > switch your internal hosts to v6-only, you don't want to go back. > > You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Indeed I was wrong: dpkg-source will refuse to unnpack a package > > that is signed but the key is not available locally, however it will > > accept to unpack a package that is not signed. > > Works

Re: ITP: jdownloader -- download manager for one-click hosting sites

2009-12-30 Thread Piotr Lewandowski
* Benjamin Drung , 2009-12-23 22:01: JDownloader is open source (…) (…) JDownloader is absolutely free of charge (…) You don't need to include this in a package description (hint: DFSG). This package contains only a dektop file and a script, which will download and launch the current JDownload

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-30 Thread Andreas Metzler
Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:27:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> Charles Plessy writes: [...] >> > given that 1) dpkg-source will not extract >> > packages that are not GPG-trusted, >> Eh? I'm fairly sure it does for me, although it prints a warning. > Indeed I was w

Bug#563052: ITP: mono-fuse -- CLI binding for FUSE

2009-12-30 Thread Marco Nenciarini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marco Nenciarini * Package name: mono-fuse Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Jonathan Pryor * URL : http://www.jprl.com/Projects/mono-fuse.html * License : MIT/X11 Programming Lang: C# Description : CLI binding f

Re: quilt 3.0 source format and dpkg-source/dpkg-buildpackage

2009-12-30 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:27:56PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Charles Plessy writes: > > > There were some concerns that applying patches through debian/rules > > could be a security hole. In my opinion – that I already expressed in > > the DEP1 discussion – given that 1) dpkg-source will no

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2009-12-29, Adam Borowski wrote: > It's not "hypothetical". IPv4 sucks so badly compared to IPv6 that once you > switch your internal hosts to v6-only, you don't want to go back. You don't switch to v6-only, you switch to dual stack IPv4+IPv6. One point being that with a v6-only host you're

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 08:37:21AM +0100, Vincent Bernat wrote: > If this is a real question, put: > 127.0.1.1 fqdn nodename > > This seems a very acceptable way to give a FQDN to your laptop without > relying on network. hostname -f and programs using a similar inner > working will be ab

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 02:36:12AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > BTW, Debian defines /etc/mailname as containing the FQDN. So, > this notion is explicitly defined on Debian, and one should > expect "hostname -f" to return the same name (according to its > documentation). What makes you think th

Re: where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from?

2009-12-30 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:31:25PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Well, the node name is unique. From that, you'll obtain the FQDN with > either the obsolete function gethostbyname or the new POSIX function > getaddrinfo (by using the AI_CANONNAME flag). POSIX says: > > If the AI_CANONNAME fla

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 05:13:29PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > But my goal is the opposite: I want to *force* automake to regenerate > the files, and preferably not even include them in the distribution. The reason to include the autogenerated files is that while most UNIX based platforms co

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 30, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > > > I routinely blacklist the ipv6 module. There are far too many > > > programs breaking or doing stuff I do not want if it is loaded. I call bullshit on this. > a) netstat garbling the addresses of connected endpoints This is one of the reasons why bindv

Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst

2009-12-30 Thread Reinier Haasjes
> This doesn't help with any of your other dependencies, just the dependency > on debconf (or some other DCMS implementation). > So if I understand correctly a (pre-)depend on host/dig won't help to make sure bind/dig is installed during the config script. My idea now is the following: config-scr

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2009-12-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Hutchings [091229 19:26]: > > I routinely blacklist the ipv6 module. There are far too many > > programs breaking or doing stuff I do not want if it is loaded. > > I trust you have filed bugs on these applications? No, on most I have not. I don't believe anyone only having ipv6 right now so

Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst

2009-12-30 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:50:40PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Patrick Schoenfeld writes: > > > Debconf or another tool that implements the Debian Configuration > > Management Specification will also be installed, and any versioned > > dependencies on it will be satisfied before preconfiguration

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Tautschnig writes: >> there are several tools that generate C source code that is later >> complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to >> distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not >> regenerated during a build. > > Why do you restrict t

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:23:21AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote [edited]: >> there are several tools that generate C source code that is later >> complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to >> distribute these built intermediate files, so

Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst

2009-12-30 Thread Reinier Haasjes
Hi, > Another good solution would be to get the brokers list in the > config/preinst (and ask which one to use) if bind or host are already > there (the common case) and to get the list in the postinst if the > information has not already been gotten. I think this won't be such a bad solution. It