Re: Bug#547079: login: Should set the iutf8 tty c_iflag if the locale is utf8

2010-03-23 Thread Nicolas François
tags #539354 help thanks Hello, As I have no clue about TTY setup, let see if I can get some other opinions on debian-devel. The question raised on http://bugs.debian.org/547079 is who shall be responsible for setting up the user's tty (e.g. regarding UTF-8 handling). Some defaults are in the

Re: Bug#547079: login: Should set the iutf8 tty c_iflag if the locale is utf8

2010-03-23 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Samuel, On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 05:18:42PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: See my concern in the bug report: “My concern is that getty used to not keep any flag at all. Keeping _some_ flags contrary to none is not just a fix, it's a change of behavior. Think for instance about a

Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. I would like to change shadow in that direction, with a configure option to restore the

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Nicolas François nicolas.franc...@centraliens.net writes: When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot

Re: Bug#533265: apt or aptitude update at the beginning of a Lenny upgrade

2009-08-23 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, (Adding debian-devel for additional comments, and previous contributors to the topic) As mentioned in #533265, the advice to update apt and aptitude at the beginning of an upgrade may fail. With a standard Etch install (i.e. only standard is selected in tasksel), apt-utils and aptitude

Re: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages

2009-08-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:53:34AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Yves-Alexis Perez cor...@debian.org writes: On lun, 2009-08-17 at 13:01 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: So surely the best way to tell if a translated page is out of date is to compare these dates in the two documents, no? And I

Re: Recommendations for man pages in Debian (was: Debian Policy 3.8.3.0 released: localized manpages)

2009-08-18 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:13:20PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: I, for example, use the date format '+%d %b %Y' (01 Aug 2009). The manual pages are human readable documentation. I think that nicely readable dates should be preferred here. This seems

Re: Little endian /usr/share/locale/* files in epiphany-browser-data

2009-01-20 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I see two main issues: - the endianess of files in the archive is actually random - I would expect the most common endianess to be the little endian one since maintainers mostly upload packages for amd64/i386; this means that the slow big endian arches usually get to pay

Re: Bug#495196: ITP: libperl-minimumversion-perl -- find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code

2008-08-15 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: Description : find a minimum required version of perl for Perl code Perl::MinimumVersion takes Perl source code and calculates the minimum version of perl required to be able to run it. Because it is based on

Re: what about an special QA package priority?

2008-05-20 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:21:07PM -0300, Luciano Bello wrote: Hi list, I was thinking about the Debian/OpenSSL debacle. Clearly it not easy to manage a hard meticulous QA process in all packages. In the other hand, there are packages more critical than others, which are more delicate

Re: Bug#459403: libuuid1: missing depends on non-essential package passwd

2008-04-01 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, I've made some cleanup of the passwd and login dependencies, and remembered this discussion. The main change is the move of libpam-modules from Depends to Pre-Depends for login (which is Essential). This moves libpam-modules to a virtual Essential package, which is the reason of this mail

Bug#473274: ITP: python-levenshtein -- Python extension computing string distances and similarities

2008-03-29 Thread Nicolas François
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-levenshtein Version : 0.10.1 Upstream Author : David Necas (Yeti) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/translate * License : GPL-2

Re: help with install-info usage count

2007-12-19 Thread Nicolas François
Hello Norbert, 2007/12/19, Norbert Preining [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! In the process of merging dpkg install-info and GNU install-info we are now at the point that I would like to generate a list of packages using install-info together with the way HOW they call it. Options would be - via

Re: Bug#450432: ... and even more bugs like this?

2007-11-13 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:44:23AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Last week I've reported a bug in ifconfig(8) (as of net-tools 1.60-17.) The problem is in that the ifconfig.8 contains the following: --cut-- .B ifconfig eth0:0 down . Note: for every scope (i.e. same net with

Re: dselect memory use

2007-02-08 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:04:14AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: Is it possible to reduce the memory use of dselect? There are some patches by Michel Lespinasse on: http://bugs.debian.org/395140 Regards, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Videos of the internationalization meeting in Extremadura

2006-09-30 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, The first Debian Internationalization meeting took place from September 7th 2006 to September 9th 2006 in Casar de Caceres, Extremadura, Spain. This mail follows the announcement of the final report: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00012.html The meeting was

Re: Bug#378167: ITP: sudoku -- console based sudoku

2006-07-14 Thread Nicolas François
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 05:34:16PM +0200, Nacho Barrientos Arias wrote: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: sudoku Isn't this package name too general? I know that the upstream

Bug#378167: ITP: sudoku -- console based sudoku

2006-07-13 Thread Nicolas François
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: sudoku Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Michael Kennett * URL : http://www.laurasia.com.au/sudoku/ * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Description

Re: System users and valid shells...

2006-05-03 Thread Nicolas François
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:48:33PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: In any case, you could use noshell (already available in Debian) or nologin (see #298782) instead of /bin/false. nologin is now distributed with login. I've closed the ITP. Kind Regards, -- Nekral -- To

Announcing changes in su

2006-03-04 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, Introduction As reported in #276419, su in the login Debian package doesn't permit to specify options to the invoked shell and doesn't respect quoted arguments. We plan to revert this behavior and follow su's documentation and other implementations. Short details

Bug#353051: ITP: pootle -- Web-based translation and translation management tool

2006-02-15 Thread Nicolas François
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: pootle Version : 0.6.3.20060126 Upstream Author : David Fraser, translate.org.za * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/translate * License : GPL Description

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +, Simon Huggins wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers themselves and their closest environment uses

Re: Experimental or unstable.

2006-01-05 Thread Nicolas François
On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 01:13:05PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: Is there a command that can display the list of packages I'm using with a version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? `aptitude -t experimental` That's neat! I love aptitude :) I love it even more

Re: Advices for an su transition

2005-11-21 Thread Nicolas François
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:22:16PM -0600, Bill Allombert wrote: Actually looks here: http://merkel.debian.org/~ballombe/ The full data is available on merkel.debian.org in ~ballombe/menu/supackages. Thanks a lot! At least all these maintainer scripts seems OK. I can probably check all the

Advices for an su transition

2005-11-20 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 11:14:39PM +0100, Nicolas François wrote: We would now like to get rid of this bug. What do you recommend: * keep a Debian specific implementation and tag this bug wontfix * reapply the patch to fix this bug, and report bugs on the packages that uses

Re: cvs loginfo configuration for alioth?

2005-11-09 Thread Nicolas François
Hi! On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:30:38PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a 'loginfo' file configuration that works for alioth. I thought I have found a solution few days ago, but when I came back, it no longer seems to work correctly: I think there is a cron job that

Shall Debian's su conform to other implementations

2005-11-06 Thread Nicolas François
Hi, In #276419, the bug submitter complained that when a command and some arguments were passed to su, all these arguments were concatenated, and provided to the shell -c option. This behavior differs from su on other systems [0]. This also forbid to pass arguments to the shell [1]. As these

Bug#334060: ITP: python-jtoolkit -- web application framework

2005-10-15 Thread Nicolas François
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas François [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: python-jtoolkit Version : 0.7 Upstream Author : David Fraser, Nick Hurley and Shayan Raghavjee of St James Software * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtoolkit/ * License

Re: Accepted grep 2.5.1.ds2-1 (source i386 sparc)

2005-09-27 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:12:07AM +1000, Aníbal Monsalve Salazar wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:04:24PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: found 181378 2.5.1.ds2-1 thanks * Anibal Monsalve Salazar [Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:47:06 -0700]: * Removed 64-egf-speedup.patch,

Re: Passage en UTF-8 par d éfaut

2005-09-06 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:15:23AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:02:45AM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:32:19AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Le ralentissement deviens donc plus important quand la machine est lente. On a tous les 2 un facteur

Re: Passage en UTF-8 par d éfaut

2005-09-06 Thread Nicolas François
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:23:26PM +0200, Denis Barbier wrote: J'avais essayé le patch gofast de #181378 il y a un mois, sans grands résultats. Mais je viens de réessayer le grep extrait du binaire RPM de l'époque (je ne sais plus lequel c'était), il est effectivement aussi rapide en UTF-8

Re: How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-30 Thread Nicolas François
On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:40:12PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Nicolas François] I'm looking for really old sources of the shadow package. With http://snapshot.debian.net, the latest I can find is 2902-12 (2002/06/04). Does anybody know where I can find older sources? Google

How to find really old source of the shadow package

2005-05-29 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, I'm looking for really old sources of the shadow package. With http://snapshot.debian.net, the latest I can find is 2902-12 (2002/06/04). Does anybody know where I can find older sources? TIA, -- Nekral -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Nicolas François
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:48:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: I do continue to think that: if [ -n $var ] is more readable than if [ ${var+set} = set ] both are not equivalent: the first one test if var is empty or unset the second one test if var is unset with bash: $ a=1 ;