Work-needing packages report for May 5, 2006

2006-05-04 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 296 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 81 (new: 3) Total number of packages requeste

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:54:57AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Wait a second. Optimizing for size should decrease speed. >> That is the whole idea of size/speed optimization tradeoffs. > A lot of the time the reduced ram requirement can stop swa

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexis Sukrieh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then, I don't understand why we have this discussion _after_ the policy > has been changed... > I thought the policy was a trustable document, where developers could > find guidelines for their work, it seems that it's not always true. Sad. debian-pol

Re: Bug#366069: ITP: fusesmb -- filesystem client based on the samba file transfer protocol

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:29:25PM +0200, Samuel Mimram wrote: > fusesmb is a filesystem client based on the samba file transfer protocol. > . > It is based on FUSE (userspace filesystem framework for Linux), thus you will > have to prepare fuse kernel module to be able to use it. Please expl

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at > least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably > trust gcc not to screw up. If gcc generally generates faster code wi

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 01:21:41PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > * the forward canonization is vital for things like tracking bugzilla's >"merges" (it in fact rewrites a $(uri)/show_bug.cgi?old_nnn into the >$(uri)/show_bug.cgi?new_nnn) Out of curiosity, how does it handle un-merges i

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Once you update apt it does. That is when you notice that suddenly you > need the key for authentication. As I said, you have to install debian-archive-keyring first. > Also on every key upgrade you have to install an untrusted package. No, you merely have to upgrad

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Joe Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi there. > > I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with > computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer > countries seem to

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Having the key in the debian-keyring package was a nice idea but >> ultimatly useless. Sarge users can't fetch the new etch keyring >> package because the signature doesn't match and the signature doesn't >> match because the s

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-04 Thread Joey Hess
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Having the key in the debian-keyring package was a nice idea but > ultimatly useless. Sarge users can't fetch the new etch keyring > package because the signature doesn't match and the signature doesn't > match because the sarge keyring doesn't have the key. Fun fun fu

Re: Debian Policy version

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Smith
"Frank Küster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS has a newer version th

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Joe Smith
"Rogério Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi there. I think that this may be interesting to anybody that has to work with computers that are not the latest/more recent as most people in richer countries seem to have. It seems to be that a good amount of peopl

Bug#366069: ITP: fusesmb -- filesystem client based on the samba file transfer protocol

2006-05-04 Thread Samuel Mimram
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Samuel Mimram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: fusesmb Version : 0.8.4 Upstream Author : Vincent Wagelaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.ricardis.tudelft.nl/~vincent/fusesmb/ * License : mainly GPL (+ BSD) Pro

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > - secure apt > secure apt is now part of testing. However, we need to do something for key > management etc - so some small issues need to be resolved. >From a usability standpoint I find this the largest problem in debian today. Finding the right key

Re: Emacs out for lunch?

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:08:46PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Yes, http://bugs.debian.org/365597 > > Although the bug is still marked open, it's at least "fixed enough" now > that the package builds again. No it isn't. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-04 Thread Russ Allbery
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /etc/profile is only used by bourne-compatible shells (of which tcsh > isn't one). Most things can be writte in a way that's valid for all > bourne-compatible shells, and any bits that can't can easily be wrapped > in an appropriate if-state

Bug#366041: ITP: python-pastedeploy -- Load, configure, and compose WSGI applications and servers

2006-05-04 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-pastedeploy Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pythonpaste.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Descriptio

Re: Emacs out for lunch?

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
Kurt Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was the happy user of Emacs on Debian unstable. After a normal > apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade > Emacs disappeared and has not been seen later. I'm I the only one to > miss it? > > Could this be the reason: > > # apt-get install emacs21-nox >

Re: Debian Policy version

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
Hendrik Sattler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ > Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS has a newer version > than all the other sources? http://incoming.debian.org/ -- Frank Küster

Bug#366033: ITP: python-paste -- Tools for using a Web Server Gateway Interface stack

2006-05-04 Thread Piotr Ozarowski
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Piotr Ozarowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-paste Version : 0.9 Upstream Author : Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://pythonpaste.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description

Debian Policy version

2006-05-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Hi, In the PTS I see: The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 3.7.2 instead of 3.6.2.0). However, version 3.7.2.0 is neither in unstable nor at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ Both only have version 3.7.1.0. How comes that the PTS ha

Emacs out for lunch?

2006-05-04 Thread Kurt Petersen
I was the happy user of Emacs on Debian unstable. After a normal apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade Emacs disappeared and has not been seen later. I'm I the only one to miss it? Could this be the reason: # apt-get install emacs21-nox [...] The following packages have unmet dependencies: e

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:30:55 +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>The downside is that anything that doesn't work on entire .debs is >>very likely to change them at the byte stream level (you only need to >>use slightly different zlib versio

Re: effectiveness of rsync and apt

2006-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 01 May 2006 09:30:55 +0200, Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The downside is that anything that doesn't work on entire .debs is >very likely to change them at the byte stream level (you only need to >use slightly different zlib versions or parameters). This means that >the chain

Re: O: Gnus -- A versatile News and mailing list reader for Emacsen.

2006-05-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:42:46 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At a guess: He doesn't mean ship the pristine upstream, he means to ship >a shell script that derives the Debian .orig.tar.gz from a pristine copy >of upstream obtained separately so that the process is reproducible. Thi

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-05-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 04, Juha Jäykkä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eh.. excuse me, but did I get this right? Does this mean that there would > be no way of deconfiguring a network device which is not hot-pluggable? > What I mean is, how do I generate a hotplug event for, e.g. a NIC that's > integrated to the mot

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Frank Küster
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank wrote: >> >> The >> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript >> >> printer. >> > >> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that >> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Pape

Re: Bug#365995: ITP: pfm -- Postgresql client application using Tcl/Tk to design forms to input data and link between related tables allowing easy navigation within a database.

2006-05-04 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk> writes: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mark Hindley hindley.org.uk> > > * Package name: pfm > Version : x.y.z > Upstream Author : Name example.org> > * URL : http://www.example.org/ > * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MI

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On 5/3/06, Christoph Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using the path component "cgi-lib" which will even be visible to users of the web server looks like a big chunk of NIH to me. Even worse, it will break existing URLs when CGIs start to move to their location. To be honest, I thought this poli

Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
Drew Parsons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Frank wrote: >> >> The >> >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript >> >> printer. >> > >> > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that >> > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Pap

Re: Bug#364319: base-files: PS1 setting for *ksh (PROPOSAL: /etc/profile.d/)

2006-05-04 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 22:56, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:53:01PM +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > On Sunday 23 April 2006 20:26, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Jari Aalto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > What we need and what should have been done a long time ag

Re: Bug#365995: ITP: pfm -- Postgresql client application using Tcl/Tk to design forms to input data and link between related tables allowing easy navigation within a database.

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Hindley
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:39:30AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sorry! Other details should read: * Package name: pfm Version : 1.2.5 Upstream Author : Willem Herremans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL

Re: Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Dan writ: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > > > > Err. You're saying Xprint is the only print implementation that can > > > print non-latin stuff properly and reliably? > > > > > > > Yes, that's right. > > > > I didn't set Mozilla up with anything special at

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Drew Parsons
Frank wrote: > >> The > >> CUPS queues print those thai (?) letters very nicely, it's a PostScript > >> printer. > > > > Not on my computer. The CUPS queues (and default postscript for that > > matter) are broke in latest firefox on my system. "Paper size not > > supported", bug #344401. Time to c

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-05-04 Thread Juha Jäykkä
> Unless you can persuade the kernel developers to "fix this" then the > correct solution is to configure network interfaces as an effect of > hotplug events. Eh.. excuse me, but did I get this right? Does this mean that there would be no way of deconfiguring a network device which is not hot-plug

Re: Re: XOrg transition, status of libxaw8

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel Stone
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 10:15:36AM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:23 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:26:21PM +1000, Drew Parsons wrote: > > > Wouter asked: > > > > Just out of curiosity, could you point me to arguments in favour of > > > > Xprint?

Re: the BTS gains a remote bug tracking feature for free !

2006-05-04 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:56:32AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This tool lists every BTS bug that is forwarded to a remote Bug > Tracker. If it knows how to get a Status and possibly a Resolution (if > the Status is a closing Status), it gets them, and: > * sets upstrea

Bug#365995: ITP: pfm -- Postgresql client application using Tcl/Tk to design forms to input data and link between related tables allowing easy navigation within a database.

2006-05-04 Thread Mark Hindley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mark Hindley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: pfm Version : x.y.z Upstream Author : Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.example.org/ * License : (GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT/X, etc.) Description : Postgresql clie

Re: Keyboard error

2006-05-04 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:43:24AM +0200, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: >I know this is not an amd64 specific problem since it also appears > on i386 but I have tired to send a bug report and without success. I am sorry, but debian-devel is not the right place for such a request (unless you want

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:49:29AM +0200, Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > In the meantime, do you suggest to use lintian overrides for fixing this > in webapp packages or purely ignoring the lintian complaints? Given that there is no support for this from webserver maintainers and no proposed migration pa

Re: Policy change about `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' - Mass bug filing pending...

2006-05-04 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
* Tollef Fog Heen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > >As you might have noticed, the last policy version (3.7.0) says that > >web application packages must not put CGIs under `/usr/lib/cgi-bin' > >anymore: > > Given that apache2 has almost a magnitude more installations than all > the other web serve

Re: keysigning in Helsinki

2006-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:44:13PM +0200, Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > Hi, > > I will be in Helsinki from 8/5 till 14/5. > > If someone wants to meet for a drink or some keysigning drop me an email. You're almost a year late ;-) -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", s