Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > > (because then we can release, which means we can then do what we pre

Re: Physical page zeroing on allocation

2013-04-03 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 04/04/2013 06:39, Viacheslav Fedorov wrote: > Samuel Thibault mailto:sthiba...@debian.org>> writes: >>>when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page Fault, >>> why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes? >>> I understand it has something to do with security. >>See man mmap. Anonymous mem

Re: Physical page zeroing on allocation

2013-04-03 Thread Viacheslav Fedorov
Samuel Thibault writes: >>when allocating an anonymous physical page on a Page Fault, >> why does kernel have to fill it with zeroes? >> I understand it has something to do with security. >See man mmap. Anonymous memory is explicitly documented as being set to >0. >Samuel Ok,thanks. So libraries

Re: PPP Radius plugin binding address

2013-04-03 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi Adrian, debian-devel is about developping Debian as a whole, it's not the best adequate list for reporting bugs regarding a specific package in Debian. Please report a bug with tag 'patch' against package ppp, following guide at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting Thanks in advance ! On Wed

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-03 20:17:47 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 01:28:58PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I pretty much agree. But what's the problem here? That xulrunner and > > > iceweasel have rdeps in the archive that aren't necessarily > > > compatible with a new version of ic

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-03 20:14:32 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > In general, bug-fix releases (which are also blocked by the freeze) > > don't introduce new bugs. > > Case in point: > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Security-updates-br

PPP Radius plugin binding address

2013-04-03 Thread Adrian Ban
Hi, My problem with the radius.so plugin is that the binding IP address is not used at all, even in the radiusclient-ng has this parameter: bindaddr. I've created a small patch for radius plugin which enables this function to set a fixed IP for each radius packet is send to the radius server.

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:33:30PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > And not, we do not have epochs to temporarily downgrade a package > > > after a botched upload. > > c.f. imagemagick > > I'm pretty sure we do. > It seems "we" u

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 01:28:58PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I pretty much agree. But what's the problem here? That xulrunner and > > iceweasel have rdeps in the archive that aren't necessarily > > compatible with a new version of iceweasel and hence introducing yet > > another transition w

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:12:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > > (because then we can rel

Bug#704612: ITP: coquelicot -- "one-click" file sharing web application with a focus on users' privacy

2013-04-03 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jérémy Bobbio Control: block -1 by 624610 703068 703107 704583 * Package name: coquelicot Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : potager.org * URL : https://coquelicot.potager.org/ * License : AGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Ruby

Re: NEW processing during freezes (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-03 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:44:48PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > The NEW queue is not just for double-checking licenses. But it should be. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#704609: ITP: python-owncloud -- ownCloud CLI client

2013-04-03 Thread Sandro Knauß
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ownCloud for Debian maintainers * Package name: pyOwnCloud Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : PyOwnCloud contributers * URL : https://github.com/csawyerYumaed/pyOwnCloud * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Descr

Re: NEW processing during freezes (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
The NEW queue is not just for double-checking licenses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2013040318.GB11273@debian

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-02 21:06:30 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Just to expand slightly on this, the problem you're both poking at is > that during a freeze, our incentives are directed towards fixing RC bugs > (because then we can release, which means we can then do what we prefer > to, which (as you can s

Re: CUT and stable releases Was: Re: R 3.0.0 ...

2013-04-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 12:19 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Correction: Of course CUT should be testing during no freeze. If testing remains unstable(t-dt) during a freeze it is still CUT. Otherwise CUT can be defined as unstable(t) or "new_release"_RCx. > I think it is "new" in the sense it adds a

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-02 09:48:34 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2013-04-02 14:29:46 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > >> That is not how it actually works out. Policy changes are made which > >> require old packages to build with new flags, compilers and toolchain > >> packages g

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-02 21:53:08 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > Vincent, > > am Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 05:07:27PM +0200 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > > I don't think that the status even of a big package like iceweasel > > is satisfactory. > > I pretty much agree. But what's the problem here? That xulrunner

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-02 09:50:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > > There are various problems with experimental, in particular dependencies > > are not necessarily listed, > > Huh? I have no clue what you could possibly be talking about, unless > you're just saying that some pack

Bug#704594: ITP: python-arpy -- library for accessing the archive files and reading the contents

2013-04-03 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger * Package name: python-arpy Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Stanisław Pitucha * URL : http://bitbucket.org/viraptor/arpy * License : Simplified BSD Programming Lang: python Description : library f

CUT and stable releases Was: Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 17:24 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On 02.04.2013 16:35, Svante Signell wrote: > > The best solution would be having unstable _never_ frozen, at the > > cost > > of another repository during the freeze period. This was proposed > > some > > time ago, see > > http://lists.

Bug#704587: ITP: libtcod -- an API for roguelike developpers

2013-04-03 Thread Etienne Millon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Etienne Millon * Package name: libtcod Version : 1.5.1 Upstream Author : Jice & Mingos * URL : http://doryen.eptalys.net/libtcod/ * License : BSD-3 Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : cross-platform C/C++ libra

Re: NEW processing.

2013-04-03 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 04:34:24AM +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > > I even proposed my help for the review process (of other packages, > not mine, of course...). This was a no-go refusal. I haven't seen > either that the FTP team asked for help and new members, if > I am seen as not qualified a

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 09:55:09PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > And not, we do not have epochs to temporarily downgrade a package > > after a botched upload. > > c.f. imagemagick > > I'm pretty sure we do. It seems "we" usually upload a 2really1 package to fix that particular mistake without in

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-03 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-02 13:37:59 -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Vincent Lefevre] > > I disagree. If the freeze occurred only once (almost) all RC bugs > > were fixed, there would be (almost) no delay. I suspect that the > > length of the freeze is due to the fact that the freeze occurred > > while too many

Bug#704583: ITP: ruby-haml-magic-translations -- internationalization library for Haml templates

2013-04-03 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jérémy Bobbio * Package name: ruby-haml-magic-translations Version : 0.5.1 Upstream Author : potager.org * URL : https://github.com/potager/haml-magic-translations * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description