Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Miller
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 19:39 +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > So, I'm curious here: why would you need a non-copyleft license for a > *test suite*? Consider the case where a legal department was worried about the code repository becoming "tainted" with uncontrolled or ill-considered GPL obligations

Bug#666961: ITP: milter-regex -- sendmail milter plugin for regular expression filtering

2012-04-02 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matt Zagrabelny * Package name: milter-regex Version : 1.9 Upstream Author : Daniel Hartmeier * URL : http://www.benzedrine.cx/milter-regex.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : sendmail milter p

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Andrey Rahmatullin > What I meant is: it is a common knowledge that you need to write an > initscript for each specific distro even though most of them use sysvinit, > but does this apply to systemd unit files too? It's an explicit goal from systemd upstream that it should be possible to use

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault > Andrey Rahmatullin, le Mon 02 Apr 2012 19:21:59 +0600, a écrit : > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:14:25PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > > > > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to > > > > ship > > > > systemd unit files. > > > It is not advantage.

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 06:49:24PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 02/04/12 18:03, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > What I meant is: it is a common knowledge that you need to write > > an initscript for each specific distro even though most of them use > > sysvinit, but does this apply to systemd un

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-02 Thread Olaf Titz
> > * Package name: dedupdedup > > Is it recommended to sing the name of this package in a Frank Sinatra > impression? In fact when I first read that I automatically read "dedupdedupdedup". But apparently the last part has been deduplicated already ;-) Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Bug#666715: ITP: dedupdedup -- find duplicate programs for finding duplicate files

2012-04-02 Thread Olaf Titz
> > Though I guess we could support both, and define an interchange format > > for exchanging data between our two systems. > > Is there not a risk that they would dedupe each other ? Not to mention the risk which any program which finds programs with generalized duplicate-finder function inflicts

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On 02/04/12 18:03, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > What I meant is: it is a common knowledge that you need to write > an initscript for each specific distro even though most of them use > sysvinit, but does this apply to systemd unit files too? dbus has a different init script for each distro, but one

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:02:32PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I can't just use the tests in the glibc > sou

Re: Anyone in direct contact with Peter S. Galbraith (psg)?

2012-04-02 Thread Peter Galbraith
I am alive and well. Strange that the forwards to p...@debian.org are bouncing... I'll have to see what to do about that. Peter On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > I was investigating #633893 and tried to contact the maintainer but the > @debian.org email address bounced. I c

Re: Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, April 02, 2012 06:54:32 PM Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:00:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Nevertheless, facts such as protein sequences are not copyrightable. > > This is somewhat confirmed by the UniProt consortium itself on their > > website (http://www.unipr

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 03:23:21PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to > > > > ship > > > > systemd unit files. > > > It is not advantage. it is crap. I believe no one can write and support > > > init/systemd/whatsoever script

Re: Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.

2012-04-02 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 11:00:11PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Nevertheless, facts such as protein sequences are not copyrightable. This is > somewhat confirmed by the UniProt consortium itself on their website > (http://www.uniprot.org/help/license), and my conclusion is that, in isolation

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > Andrey Rahmatullin, le Mon 02 Apr 2012 19:21:59 +0600, a écrit : >> That's right, nobody can write initscripts for all distros because they >> are incompatible. Isn't this problem solved by systemd? > No, it was mentioned previously that systemd does not aim at being a

Re: Anyone in direct contact with Peter S. Galbraith (psg)?

2012-04-02 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:14:50 +0200, Neil Williams wrote: > Packages concerned: > emacs-goodies-el I am an heavy user of three of its binaries (devscripts-el, debian-el and dpkg-dev-el) and I already contributed in the past, so in case it is orphaned I will be glad to adopt it. Thx, bye

Re: Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.

2012-04-02 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Non-copyrightable work with non-free license."): > in at least two of my packages, bioperl and emboss, the test suite contains > protein sequence files from the UniProt database, which is distributed under > the non-free CC Attribution-NoDerivs license. Through a private di

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-04-02 Thread Lars Seipel
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 05:19:02 PM John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > While cygwin may have a "suite" they are a private company I wouldn't bet to > dl and use it without a lawyer reading any "corporate provided license" > they've wrote, my personal preference that is. Newlib is f

Non-copyrightable work with non-free license.

2012-04-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, in at least two of my packages, bioperl and emboss, the test suite contains protein sequence files from the UniProt database, which is distributed under the non-free CC Attribution-NoDerivs license. Through a private discussion I had with their helpdesk, my understanding of their positi

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrey Rahmatullin, le Mon 02 Apr 2012 19:21:59 +0600, a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:14:25PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > > > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to ship > > > systemd unit files. > > It is not advantage. it is crap. I believe no one can write

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 05:14:25PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to ship > > systemd unit files. > It is not advantage. it is crap. I believe no one can write and support > init/systemd/whatsoever scripts sutable for many distributi

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Игорь Пашев
2012/4/2 Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to ship > systemd unit files. It is not advantage. it is crap. I believe no one can write and support init/systemd/whatsoever scripts sutable for many distributions and their versions. All

Bug#666910: ITP: lcmaps-plugins-scas-client -- SCAS client plugin for the LCMAPS authorization framework

2012-04-02 Thread Dennis van Dok
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dennis van Dok * Package name: lcmaps-plugins-scas-client Version : 0.3.4-1 Upstream Author : Nikhef Grid Middleware Security Team * URL : https://wiki.nikhef.nl/grid/Site_Access_Control * License : Apache 2 Programmi

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 02:18:17PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 21/03/12 16:52, YunQiang Su wrote: > > It' said that the 2 main advantage of systemd are parallel and > > much simpler configuration file. > > > > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to

Re: On init in *Debian*

2012-04-02 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 21/03/12 16:52, YunQiang Su wrote: > It' said that the 2 main advantage of systemd are parallel and > much simpler configuration file. > And the third advantage of it, is that upstream people is starting to ship systemd unit files. > Is it possible to implement an init system for kFreeBSD an

Bug#666905: ITP: xacml -- SAML 2.0 profile of XACML v2.0

2012-04-02 Thread Dennis van Dok
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dennis van Dok * Package name: xacml Version : 1.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Nikhef Grid Security Middleware Team * URL : http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml * License : Apache 2 Programming

Bug#666904: ITP: automatic-save-folder -- Open the File Browser at the right location, using simple filters on the downloaded file.

2012-04-02 Thread Sascha Girrulat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Girrulat * Package name: automatic-save-folder Version : 1.0.4 Upstream Author : Cyan * URL : http://asf.mangaheart.org/ * License : GPL2 Programming Lang: Java-Script Description : Open the File Browser a

Bug#666902: ITP: irpe -- Icinga Remote Plugin Executor Server

2012-04-02 Thread Alexander Wirt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Wirt * Package name: irpe Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Icinga Team * URL : https://dev.icinga.org/projects/irpe * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Icinga Remote Plugin Executor Server

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Apr 02, Michael Welle wrote: > >> In life I tend to look for role models above me, not below me. Why >> imitate people or companies that do a bad job? We can do better. And of >> course, to come back to my initial email, I doubt that using the >>

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 02, Michael Welle wrote: > In life I tend to look for role models above me, not below me. Why > imitate people or companies that do a bad job? We can do better. And of > course, to come back to my initial email, I doubt that using the > blacklist service makes anything easier for Debian. N

Re: Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:33, Jakub Wilk wrote: > http://docs.python.org/release/1.5.1/lib/module-regex.html > The module was removed in Python 2.5. so for the supported python versions is a "safe" name. Sorry, but I'm not going to change that name (if you install a third-party module, you should

Re: Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sandro Tosi , 2012-04-02, 10:06: This sounds like a bad name, since there used to be a regex module in the standard distribution a few years back and there's therefore a fair amount of documentation warning against using it. that's the upstream name, and infact I've renamed the also source t

Re: [OT] NM vs. wicd

2012-04-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-31 05:42:41 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 31/03/12 01:03, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-03-30 19:43:48 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > >> Check that you don't have GLAN/WLAN or something like that enabled on > >> /proc/acpi/wakeup > > > > xvii:~> cat /pro

Re: Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:58, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Sandro Tosi > >>  For testing and comparison with the current 're' module the new >> implementation >>  is in the form of a module called 'regex'. > > This sounds like a bad name, since there used to be a regex module in > the standard dis

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-02 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 09:35:53AM +0200, Michael Welle wrote: > > So comparing Debian to a commercial organisation doesn't support your case > > at > > all. Commercial organisations are more than willing to reject some > > customers > > if it makes things easy for them. > > In life I tend to

Re: Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Sandro Tosi > For testing and comparison with the current 're' module the new > implementation > is in the form of a module called 'regex'. This sounds like a bad name, since there used to be a regex module in the standard distribution a few years back and there's therefore a fair amount o

Re: bug reports with urls in them

2012-04-02 Thread Michael Welle
Hello, Russell Coker writes: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Michael Welle wrote: >> I agree only partly with that. Losing a bug report or two is one >> thing. Imagine a potential or actual customer sending an email to a >> company and getting a response like: 'Well, we don't know on which data >> we for