Bug#524713: ITP: libmoosex-types-perl -- organise Moose types in libraries

2009-04-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-types-perl Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Robert phaylon Sedlacek r...@474.at * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Types/ * License : GPL-1

Bug#524716: ITP: libmoosex-methodattributes-perl -- code attribute introspection

2009-04-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-methodattributes-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Florian Ragwitz r...@debian.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-MethodAttributes/ * License

Bug#499635: ITP: libgigi -- GUI library for OpenGL

2008-09-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libgigi Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : T. Zachary Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://gigi.sourceforge.net/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C

Re: Spam-Problem with linux.debian.user.german

2008-09-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Klaus Ethgen wrote: I had posted a followup to linux.debian.user.german. Now I got a very strange mail from a italian host telling me that the post was canceled and that I have to subscribe a mailing list. What the hell is that about? I did not post to any mailing list. I did post to a

Bug#502986: ITP: libauthen-krb5-admin-perl -- Perl extension for MIT Kerberos 5 admin interface

2008-10-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libauthen-krb5-admin-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Andrew J. Korty [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Authen-Krb5-Admin/ * License : BSD

Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged 'lenny-ignore'?

2008-10-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 21:13 +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: Firmware and driver do not run on the same CPU. There is no 'linkage' between them. With a client/server application, a GPL client does not enforce the server to be GPL, even if client and server are

renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I wonder about the advantages and disadvantages of renaming scripts installed in system PATH to not include an extension as .pl (Policy 10.4): When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that

Re: renaming scripts provided by upstream

2008-12-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Bas Zoetekouw b...@debian.org writes: You wrote: Quoth Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org, on 2008-12-12 22:30:24 +0100: I understand that it should not matter to the user what language is used to implement a particular script and support omitting extensions. But what about

Bug#510687: ITP: libemail-sender-perl -- Perl module for sending email

2009-01-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libemail-sender-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Sender/ * License : Artistic | GPL-1+ (like

Bug#513938: ITP: libclass-method-modifiers-perl -- Perl module providing method modifiers

2009-02-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libclass-method-modifiers-perl Version : 1.01 Upstream Author : Shawn M Moore sartak at gmail.com * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Method-Modifiers * License : GPL

Re: -dbg packages; are they actually useful?

2009-03-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: What I really wish for is the ability to have a relatively centralized location where the symbols from every single package ended up that was separate from the normal mirrors. The above, coupled with a coredump submission site which would accept

Bug#467549: ITP: simutrans-pak64 -- data set for simutrans

2008-02-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: simutrans-pak64 Version : 99.18 (from SVN) Upstream Author : Simutrans Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://www.simutrans.com/ * License : Artistic License, GPL

Re: broken .orig.tar.gz (Re: package upload rejected - no email)

2008-03-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
The Fungi wrote: On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:07:48AM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: I'm going to contact upstream and ask if they would consider releasing a new version so that this can get cleaned up. Wouldn't prepending an epoch be less drastic? Doesn't sound like the mistake was

Bug#488382: ITP: libdatetime-format-natural-perl -- Create machine readable date/time with natural parsing logic

2008-06-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libdatetime-format-natural-perl Version : 0.71 Upstream Author : Steven Schubiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-Natural/ * License

Bug#488385: ITP: libtest-mocktime-perl -- Replaces actual time with simulated time

2008-06-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libtest-mocktime-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : David Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Test-MockTime/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic

Re: RFC: Java (JAR) desktop integration/admin tool

2008-07-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, RalfGesellensetter wrote: While Java JDK is freed nowadays, those JAR files are mostly closed-source (bluej, javakara, jprologeditor, greenfoot etc.). Rather than creating wrapping deb-packages with binary content ('dirty'), I'd suggest a straight-forward policy plus some desktop

Re: Bug#493236: ITP: wp-openid -- OpenID consumer plugin for WordPress

2008-08-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Andreas Schildbach wrote: * Package name: wp-openid Description : OpenID consumer plugin for WordPress I suggest calling the package wordpress-openid or maybe even wordpress-plugin-openid. This would be more informative and package managers that display an alphabetical list of

Bug#495942: ITP: libhtml-formfu-model-dbic-perl -- integrate HTML::FormFu with DBIx::Class

2008-08-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libhtml-formfu-model-dbic-perl Version : 0.03002 Upstream Author : Carl Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://code.google.com/p/html-formfu/ * License : GPL-1

Bug#497217: ITP: libmodule-extract-perl -- base class for working with Perl distributions

2008-08-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: libmodule-extract-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Extract/ * License : GPL-1+ | Artistic

Bug#609016: ITP: libpackage-stash-xs-perl -- Perl module providing routines for manipulating stashes (XS version)

2011-01-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org * Package name: libpackage-stash-xs-perl Version : 0.17 Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs doy at tozt dot net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Package-Stash-XS/ * License : Artistic

Bug#609025: ITP: libdist-checkconflicts-perl -- Perl module to declare version conflicts

2011-01-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org * Package name: libdist-checkconflicts-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs doy at tozt dot net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dist-CheckConflicts/ * License

Re: Forwarding bugs upstream

2011-01-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Sune Vuorela nos...@vuorela.dk writes: Currently, the debian Qt/KDE team has around 800 open, non-forwarded bugs reported against their packages. I would guess that maybe 20 of them is packaging issues. But we can't find them. The rest of the bugs (780 open-non forwarded (and 300 forwarded))

Re: Bash-completion with triggers

2011-04-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, David Paleino da...@debian.org writes: I've implemented a new revision of bash-completion, which uses debtriggers(5) to load only relevant completions, and symlink them when something touches /usr/bin/, /usr/games/, /usr/sbin/, /sbin/, /bin/, and so on. zsh supports autoloading of

Bug#623825: ITP: libmoosex-chainedaccessors-perl -- accessor class for chained accessors with Moose

2011-04-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-chainedaccessors-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Moritz Onken on...@netcubed.de * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-ChainedAccessors/ * License

Re: A concrete proposal for rolling implementation

2011-05-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: The new “rolling” suite --- This would be a pseudo-suite, like experimental. Except that while experimental is built on top of unstable and filled manually by maintainers, rolling would be built on top of testing and filled

Re: Alioth status update, take 3

2011-05-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Joachim Breitner nome...@debian.org writes: Thanks for the info. Can you drop a mail to pet-devel or d-haskell if you figured out how to run pet on the new alioth? I finished the PET2 changes for the new alioth. It now works as good as before (that is mostly usable, cf. [1]). Help for

Re: UDD access from Alioth(s children)

2011-05-31 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Christian PERRIER bubu...@debian.org writes: It's on the list of known issues. Repeating questions means less time to fix the issues that remain. Is there a list of these known issues? It could really help in avoiding to repeat questions, indeed (and thanks again for all the good work... I

Bug#547299: ITP: libtry-tiny-perl -- Perl module providing minimal try/catch

2009-09-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libtry-tiny-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Yuval Kogman nothingm...@woobling.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Try-Tiny/ * License : MIT Programming

Bug#508644: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

2009-12-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, what is the status of this now? Should packages depend on default-mta instead of exim4 or not yet? Regards, Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, 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. This causes several problems: 1. The intermediate files

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

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Serafeim Zanikolas ser...@hellug.gr 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

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

2009-12-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Michael Tautschnig m...@debian.org 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

Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be named libfoo-bar-perl [1]. Some packages do not adhere to this scheme: opalmod → libopal-perl gnuift-perl → libgnuift-perl perl-mapscript→ libmapscript-perl perl-tk →

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-23 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jozef Kutej jo...@kutej.net writes: Ansgar Burchardt wrote: the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be Perl module packages *should* be named... :) Non-conformance with guidelines denoted by should (or recommended) will generally be considered a bug

Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

2010-03-30 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org writes: the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be named libfoo-bar-perl [1]. Some packages do not adhere to this scheme: [...] Unless there are objections I will file bugs of severity normal in a few days for these packages

Bug#582133: ITP: libpod-weaver-perl -- Perl module to weave together a Pod document from an outline

2010-05-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libpod-weaver-perl Version : 3.101270 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod

Bug#582138: ITP: libdist-zilla-plugin-podweaver-perl -- Dist::Zilla plugin to use Pod::Weaver to generate Pod documentation

2010-05-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libdist-zilla-plugin-podweaver-perl Version : 3.100710 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http

Bug#582420: ITP: libpod-elemental-perlmunger-perl -- Perl module that rewrites Perl documentation

2010-05-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libpod-elemental-perlmunger-perl Version : 0.093330 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod

Bug#583217: ITP: libconfig-mvp-reader-ini-perl -- Perl module providing a MVP config reader for .ini files

2010-05-26 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libconfig-mvp-reader-ini-perl Version : 1.101450 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Config-MVP-Reader-INI/ * License

Bug#583395: ITP: libversion-perl -- Perl extension for Version Objects

2010-05-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libversion-perl Version : 0.82 (upstream), 0.8200 (Debian package) Upstream Author : John Peacock jpeac...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/version/ * License

Bug#583468: ITP: libcpan-meta-perl -- Perl module to access distribution metadata for a CPAN distribution

2010-05-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libcpan-meta-perl Version : 2.101461 Upstream Author : David Golden dagol...@cpan.org, Ricardo Signes r...@cpan.org * URL : /usr/share/common-licenses

Bug#583474: ITP: libmoosex-types-perl-perl -- Moose types that check against Perl syntax

2010-05-27 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-types-perl-perl Version : 0.101340 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-Types-Perl/ * License : Artistic

Bug#584536: ITP: libmoosex-setonce-perl -- write-once, read-many attributes for Moose

2010-06-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-setonce-perl Version : 0.100471 Upstream Author : Ricardo SIGNES r...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-SetOnce/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1

Bug#584729: ITP: libpackage-stash-perl -- Perl module providing routines for manipulating stashes

2010-06-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libpackage-stash-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jesse Luehrs doy at tozt dot net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Package-Stash/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1

Re: A Look In the Mirror: Attacks on Package Managers

2010-06-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: There was some discussion of periodically resigning the security archive even if there are no updates so that package managers could warn if more than X days had gone by without an update to the security archive signatures. I don't know if anyone has

Bug#585818: ITP: libmath-base36-perl -- Perl module for encoding and decoding of base36 strings

2010-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libmath-base36-perl Version : 0.07 Upstream Author : Brian Cassidy bri...@cpan.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Math-Base36/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1

Re: ITP: php-recaptcha -- PHP interface to recaptcha.net

2010-06-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Thomas Goirand tho...@goirand.fr writes: Please read point 9 of this document: http://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html Because we don't have the source code of the captcha system itself (you only have access to the source code of something that accesses the online service),

Re: Anyone collected historical data for popcons of derivative(s)?

2010-07-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com writes: I wonder if anyone cron-ed fetching of popcons for derivative distributions (e.g. Ubuntu). ubuntu exposes only current status http://popcon.ubuntu.com/ and I've not found if there is any way obtain historical data (like we have one

Bug#589831: ITP: libmoosex-followpbp-perl -- Moose extension to name your accessors get_foo() and set_foo()

2010-07-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@2008.43-1.org * Package name: libmoosex-followpbp-perl Version : Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky auta...@urth.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/MooseX-FollowPBP/ * License : Artistic-2.0

Re: Anyone collected historical data for popcons of derivative(s)?

2010-07-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Yaroslav Halchenko deb...@onerussian.com writes: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I grabbed the data since December 2009 (the file linked as was popularity-contest results on http://popcon.ubuntu.com/). If that is enough for your purposes, I can make it available. I also

Bug#590324: ITP: libpackage-deprecationmanager-perl -- Perl module to manage deprecation warnings for your distribution

2010-07-25 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@43-1.org * Package name: libpackage-deprecationmanager-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Dave Rolsky auta...@urth.org * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Package-DeprecationManager/ * License

Re: Backports service becoming official

2010-10-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Sandro Tosi mo...@debian.org writes: Just a note that using Send-To requires to add a bug control file to each upload to bpo which I consider a huge overkill solution to that. reportbug's README.developers.gz suggests to use dpkg's Origin and Bugs tags (see deb-control(5)) instead of Send-To.

Re: [buildd-tools-devel] testers wanted: sbuild and build-dependencies

2010-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: There is a solution to this actually. Create a Packages, Release and Release.gpg file for the pseudo package and add them as file:// url to sources.list.d/. Then just apt-get install pseudo-package. I'll give that a go, thanks. You might be

Re: more about Zookeeper

2011-06-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, it is a bit strong language to blame code quality for a build system configuration error. Quality code should detect that the build configuration is wrong before the build itself actually

Re: more about Zookeeper

2011-06-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, [ CC'ed Thomas in case he is not subscribed to d-d ] Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com writes: There has been a bit of talk about Apache Zookeeper recently by Thomas Koch. He has a bad opinion of Zookeeper and things it is not good enough for Debian. Could you please provide a

Bug#640055: ITP: python-pyramid-beaker -- Beaker sessioning bindings for Pyramid

2011-09-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org * Package name: python-pyramid-beaker Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Agendaless Consulting and Contributors * URL : https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_beaker * License : BSD-like

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Am 09.11.2011 14:57, schrieb David Kalnischkies: So, long story short: Is this going to be the implementation ftp-master chooses for wheezy or are we getting a short description back? I did not know all details when I wrote the initial patch. Given the current issues, I plan to update

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update download size by 3.6 MB. Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% Switching to

Re: Bug#655230: ITP: pushkey -- ITP: pushkey - Pushes your ssh key to a remote location. It tries to create a .ssh folder remotley then it adds your ssh key to authorized_keys.

2012-01-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 01/09/2012 03:43 PM, Al Biheiri wrote: * Package name: pushkey Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Al Biheiriabihe...@gmail.com * URL : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/77428/website-dev/index.htm * License : (GPL v3) Programming Lang: (Bash) Description

proposed new pseudo-package 'debian-mentors' for handling sponsoring requests

2012-01-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/09/msg00166.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/09/msg00133.html DRIVERS === Ansgar Burchardt Jakub Wilk Arno Töll gregor herrmann pgp8p7PAhmU0V.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: Could you point us to those which were ignored or denied? At least pbuilder still disables secure APT by default, see #579028. Regards Ansgar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org writes: * Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org, 2012-02-18, 14:14: Could you point us to those which were ignored or denied? At least pbuilder still disables secure APT by default, see #579028. The bug is closed. Am I missing something? pbuilder was changed to pass

Bug#661823: ITP: dune -- toolbox for solving PDEs

2012-03-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org * Package name: dune-common, dune-geometry, dune-grid, dune-istl, dune-localfunctions Version : 2.1 or 2.2 * URL : http://www.dune-project.org/ * License : GPL-2

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-03-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 03/02/2012 05:17 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: To summarize the discussion: while there is some doubt about how the changelog for sponsored upload should best look like, it seems consensual that team names should not be used in chanelog trailers. What is the best place to document this consensus?

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jean-Christophe Dubacq jcduba...@free.fr writes: What about a dev. script that would be run in debian/ and would parse debian/control and send the ITP? I can write that! The Perl group already has a script that does this: examples/get-itp in git.debian.org:/git/pkg-perl/scripts.git. I don't

mass bug filing: debcheckout fails

2012-04-24 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I noticed you started to file bugs for non-working debcheckouts. Was this discussed anywhere as suggested by the developer's reference[1]? The ones I saw just asked to drop +ssh from Vcs-* fields which I imagine a new lintian check could also achieve. Regards, Ansgar [1]

Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, (Please send followup messages to -project.) The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field has a few issues we would like to address: - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It

Re: Maintainers, teams, Uploaders, DMs, DDs, etc.

2012-06-13 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk writes: I think the first three can be fixed relatively simply. I propose the following changes: 1. Change the definition of the Maintainer field to permit multiple entries. There are currently four different entities (3 humans and a

Re: DEP-8 extension proposal: Add source package header

2012-06-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 06/14/2012 02:48 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-06-13 23:42 +0200]: As a temporary alternative to a hardcoded list, Stuart's proposal to use Contents-source.gz is clearly better. Right, that would do as well. However, I don't see this on

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 06/15/2012 11:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: Yeah, a hook of any sorts is ok for me. The get-vcs-source in debian/rules seems quite ok to me. Should debcheckout be modified to call it? It's part of devscript, do you think it's ok if I submit a wishlist bug report against devscript to ask for

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-06 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: Back in May I warned about CD sizes[1] for the Wheezy release, pointing out that CD#1 isn't big enough any more to provide usable Gnome or KDE installations. There was some discussion about what to do about that (change compression to xz, switch to

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com writes: On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 09:00:32PM -0600, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: I tried recompressing all packages in wheezy with xz. The total size for all amd64+all packages was reduced from 42GB to 33 GB (about 20%). A per-package listing is available from [1] [1

Re: EFI in Debian

2012-07-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: 2. Upstream kernel support: when booted in Secure Boot mode, Linux would only load signed kernel modules and disable the various debug interfaces that allow code injection. I'm aware that David Howells, Matthew Garrett and others are working on

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org writes: Ansgar has been experimenting with .deb sizes to make the packages needed for a minimal desktop installation fit in the first CD. It looks like that's doable by switching to xz compression for the involved binaries. Would you grant freeze

postgresql-* package namespace (was: Re: Bug#683486: ITP: barman -- Backup and Recovery Manager for PostgreSQL)

2012-08-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 08/01/2012 11:18 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 09:56:56AM +0200, Marco Nenciarini wrote: * Package name: barman postgresql-barman would make it a bit easier for people to find. Most of the other postgreql packages use the postgresql- namespace. The postgresql-*

How to proceed with switching packages on first CDs to xz?

2012-08-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs to use xz compression. I have prepared a list of binary packages which would benefit the most from switching, see [1]. My suggestion is to now switch the default compression for GNOME and KDE packages to xz using

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce (was: How to proceed with switching packages on first CDs to xz?)

2012-08-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org writes: Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org (03/08/2012): I was wondering how to proceed with switching packages on the first CDs to use xz compression. I have prepared a list of binary packages which would benefit the most from switching, see [1]. or we

Re: How to proceed with switching packages on first CDs to xz?

2012-08-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org writes: My suggestion is to now switch the default compression for GNOME and KDE packages to xz using gnome-pkg-tools (pkg-kde-tools) and then either schedule binNMUs (only arch:any packages) or no-changes uploads (for arch:all or Multi-Arch). I would help

Re: [Pkg-postgresql-public] postgresql-* package namespace

2012-08-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Martin Pitt mp...@debian.org writes: Christoph Berg [2012-08-01 21:12 +0200]: The various postgresql-* packages are mostly plugins (PL/something) Right, postgresql-X.Y-foo are server-side plugins which are specific to a major PostgreSQL server version. They need to be versioned just like

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-19 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
gregor herrmann gre...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:08:39 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: my suggestion was just to settle with a common and simple solution. This should be pretty simple to implement (I'd volunteer to do this but wanted to seek for comments before filing a bug report

Re: libfm and pcmanfm in debian

2012-09-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Andrej N. Gritsenko and...@rep.kiev.ua writes: Tell me, please, how I can achieve the inclusion of stable version of libfm/pcmanfm into next debian release? BTW, next release of Ubuntu will have 1.0 (or even 1.0.1) versions included. Why debian should not? There were a few mails about

Bug#690293: Policy 5.6.24: Checksums-{SHA1,SHA256} are required by the archive software

2012-10-12 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy Severity: minor Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Checksums In the .dsc file, these fields should list all files that make up the source package. In the .changes file, these fields should list

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should commit the source code to a public readable Git repository and put a signed tag on it. I do not think that is a good idea: You would end with two repositories for packages maintained in

Re: Let dak commit all source packages to Git

2012-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: Ansgar Burchardt: Thomas Koch tho...@koch.ro writes: For every debian source package that enters the archive, dak should commit the source code to a public readable Git repository and put a signed tag on it. I do not think that is a good idea: You

unsafe use of gpg

2012-12-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I recently looked at several packages using gpg to verify signatures and found ways to circumvent the signature check, see [1] for a few bug reports demonstrating this. [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=gpg-clearsign;users=ans...@debian.org So far I have found two

Re: Multiple source package entries in Sources file

2012-12-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 12/18/2012 05:09 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: Besides build failures (as suggested by Roland and Stuart), there is also a talk about keeping old versions of the source package around for license compliance. This is mostly related to packages embedding (parts of) other packages during builds (I

Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-03 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: With Built-Using, we get a way to rebuild packages that embed parts of other packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-built-using Not sure if the buildd stuff will automatically schedule rebuilds or if we will notice due to

Re: Is the Package-List field necessary for uploads ?

2013-01-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 01/06/2013 01:12 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: we are documenting in the Policy the Package-List field of the Debian source control files. Multiline field listing all the packages that can be built from the source package. The first line of the field value is empty. Each one of the

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-16 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 01/16/2013 08:56, Neil Williams wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:26:53 +0100 Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: Not only dpkg, but also wanna-build, sbuild, lintian, dak, and who knows what else... It's about which ones need to change. lintian response rates are not likely to be a problem -

Re: consensus about Built-Using?

2013-02-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
into the gcc-4.x control file just to replace everyone of these with the *source* package name. Nice! Granted, Ansgar Burchardt did provide me with a patch, but I won't do such exercises on my own. Why not as part of the changes file? It's a property of the binary package that it incorporates

Re: RFC declarative built-using field generation

2013-02-07 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org writes: We can take advantage of the architecture specification in Build-Depends being fairly wide-open. So this should not break existing parsers: Build-Depends: foo [any built-using], bar [i386 amd64 built-using] [...] Alternatively, a package named built-using

Re: DM upload permission

2013-03-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 03/05/2013 11:46, Bálint Réczey wrote: Please send error reports to the affected parties when executing or parsing a dak command file fails. If you meet minimum requirements, dak will send an error message. But dak and debianqueued only look at files that have a known extension (e.g.

Re: adduser Pre-Depends for qemu-system-common

2013-03-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Serge Hallyn serge.hal...@ubuntu.com writes: qemu-system-common installs a udev rules file which sets /dev/kvm group to 'kvm'. Its postinst then adds a kvm group. However udev reads the new rules file as soon as it sees it, sees that group kvm doesn't exist, and ignores that part of the

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

2013-03-31 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org writes: A new major release R 3.0.0 will come out on Wednesday April 3rd, as usual according the the release plan and announcements [1]. It contains major internal changes [2] and requires rebuilds of all R packages. As I usually do, I started packaging

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

2013-03-31 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org writes: On 31 March 2013 at 19:12, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: | However the binaries seem to claim they would also work with the newer R | versions? I looked at r-cran-rsymphony and it has | Depends: [...], r-base-core (= 2.14.1) You looked at the code from

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

2013-03-31 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org writes: On 31 March 2013 at 19:41, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: | Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org writes: | On 31 March 2013 at 19:12, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: | | However the binaries seem to claim they would also work with the newer R | | versions? I looked

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

2013-03-31 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Dirk Eddelbuettel e...@debian.org writes: | I assume this means that a non-working set of packages could also | migrate to testing (if there was no freeze). This should probably get | fixed, maybe with something similar to the perlapi-5.14.2 virtual | package provided by perl(-base)? That

Re: dak-roulette activated

2013-04-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Scott Kitterman deb...@kitterman.com writes: Excellent. What's the interval on the cron runs? If we get lucky, this could get us to a release really soon. While britney still removes packages from testing that are no longer in unstable, it only does so when this doesn't make (other)

epoch in filenames for packages (was: Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-18 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
On 04/18/2013 10:48, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 09:29:19PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 04/02/2013 09:18 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Actually that hits another problem. Namely that the epoch does not appear in the binary package filename. While wheezy would have

Re: Switching default dpkg-deb compressor to xz

2013-05-08 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, On 05/07/2013 21:49, Guillem Jover wrote: As mentioned some months ago [0], I'm planning to switch dpkg-deb default compressor from gzip to xz, as there seemed to be consensus that was the way to go, and given the amount of already manually switched packages, or packaging helpers. :/

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