Re: collab-maint access for non DD on Alioth: am I using the right procedure?

2016-03-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Maybe such requests are processed in batch… Letting nm@ know you started > a discussion on dd@ looks like a good idea, so I'm cc-ing them. That's right. SOrry for not doing that at first glance. Please note that, in the meantime, Myon processed my requ

collab-maint access for non DD on Alioth: am I using the right procedure?

2016-03-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello folks, I generally prefer not using -devel for that kind of things, but experience show that it might be quite efficient, as (still) many people follow this list. I want to give access to a non DD (Guillaume Brochu ) to collab-maint, so that he can help me in maintaining geneweb (my first p

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Philippe Cerfon (philc...@gmail.com): > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > Tags: security > > Hi. > > I think Debian has the following two problems (or rather its security > conscious users) with respect to software that gets into the system: No idea whether what you're proposing i

Re: Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

2015-11-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Vasudev Kamath (vasu...@copyninja.info): > > Is this change going to impact the fonts-android-udeb binary package > > which is now being used within the Debian Installer? > > No, as of now upstream git repository of android source provides 2 > fallback variants DroidSansFallback and Droid

Re: GCC-5 transition will move to testing tonight

2015-09-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jonathan McDowell (nood...@earth.li): > I continue to be impressed at the fine work the release team do for > Debian. Based on conversations at DebConf I'd expected a much longer > period of instability and lack of updates to testing. While I understand > we're not out of the woods yet I'd

Re: Regarding text display issues

2015-06-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Konstantin Khomoutov (flatw...@users.sourceforge.net): > Now, let's do a more targeted search: > > ~% apt-cache search task hindi > task-hindi - Hindi environment > task-hindi-desktop - Hindi desktop > task-hindi-kde-desktop - Hindi KDE desktop > > So I'd say task-hindi-desktop would be

Re: Debian Installer Jessie RC 3 release

2015-05-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > Hi, > > On Sun Apr 19, 2015 at 16:25:30 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Improvements in this release of the installer > > = > > > > * apt-setup: > > - Stop enabling backports by default (#764982). >

Re: Q: any reason for debian-policy non-i18n-ed?

2015-05-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Hideki Yamane (henr...@debian.or.jp): > Hi, > > Why debian-policy has not been gettexted? > Just a curious :) Apart from Marc's remark, which I consider slightly incorrect (there's a big difference between a good enough understanding of English to be able "to do something in free softwa

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > The issue with the translations is just a consequence, but also > just because the translators don't use a properly designed tool. I very much like such answers. Really. Short followup: patches welcomed. Please note that this is against a basecode

Re: motd handling in jessie & beyond

2014-12-31 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Faidon Liambotis (parav...@debian.org): > For this to happen, we'll need: Hoping that a consensus can be reached, I will, as the "not so active but last active" shadow maintainer, follow whatever conclusion will be reached in this discussion. I don't really have any other advice, indeed..

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-10-14 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Paul Wise (p...@debian.org): > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > As wrote by others earlier, that's the amount of memory needed for > > compression. 65 MB of RAM is needed for decompression. That's nothing!!! > > That is half the RAM available on my Debian-base

Bug#764659: general: Login screen misspells distro name as "debain"

2014-10-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Nathan L. (spychicken2...@gmail.com): > Turns out I screwed up and typoed the hostname, please disregard this > report. Aha, that happens: You probably want to read Jaldhar H. Vyas blog, I think... http://www.braincells.com/debian/ Particularly the "About La Salle Debain" part..:-)

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting brian m. carlson (sand...@crustytoothpaste.net): > > Besides using an Evil Debconf Note (;-) ), is there a reason for > > capitalizing every noun in the note title ? > > That style of title capitalization is very common in the United States > (and Canada, it appears). It's less common in

Re: Allow encfs into jessie?

2014-09-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Eduard Bloch (e...@gmx.de): > Template: encfs/security-information > Type: note > _Description: Encfs Security Information Besides using an Evil Debconf Note (;-) ), is there a reason for capitalizing every noun in the note title ? BTW, that might be a use case for the debconf "error" da

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org): > On Dienstag, 2. September 2014, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > They're all arch: all though, right, so in practice no buildds are actually > > building these packages? > > yet. > > :-) > > At the time, we (font team) decided to go with z9, the fact

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Changwoo Ryu (cw...@debian.org): > In my quick experiments with some font packages, "-Sextream -z9" > option still gives ~4% smaller size than the default. IMO this is > still significant for big font packages. Yes, that choice of the fonts team is based on a detailed experiment conducte

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > I’d like the thread to be useful, and for that goal it would be much > appreciated if the d-i team could you tell us what the relevant criteria > are and what people need to work on. Here is my opinion. Please take it as "opinion of someone who's been

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-08-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Amir Taaki (gen...@riseup.net): > However, I think maybe this might have slipped through the cracks and > has been missed. Any information would be much appreciated. > The responsible team (Debian Bitcoin Team) seems to be dead judging from > their mailing list. Hello, That seems to be

Re: A question about patches for upstream

2014-05-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > That said, the process of forwarding bugs along is sort of annoying in > many cases and may not be a very appealing place for volunteers to spend > their time, so I think it tends to be one of the first things that stops > happening when maintainer teams a

Bug#746652: ITP: openambit -- utilities for Suunto Ambit sport watches

2014-05-02 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Perrier * Package name: openambit Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Emil Ljungdahl * URL : http://openambit.org/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : utilities for Suunto Ambit sport

Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Help wanted: test new shadow source package (login, passwd, uidmap, etc.)

2014-05-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Serge Hallyn (serge.hal...@ubuntu.com): > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > > > Hello fellow developers, > > > > > > I would like to request your help in testing the new version of the

Re: Help wanted: test new shadow source package (login, passwd, uidmap, etc.)

2014-04-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org): > Hello fellow developers, > > I would like to request your help in testing the new version of the > shadow package (that provides login, passwd and such other important > or base packages). I haven't got much feedbackwhich

Help wanted: test new shadow source package (login, passwd, uidmap, etc.)

2014-04-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
of setuid/setgid/newuidmap/newgid/map man pages [ Laurent Bigonville ] * Switch to dpkg-source 3.0 (quilt) format * Add build-dependency against bison * Call dh-autoreconf since we need to regenerate all the autofoo files [ Philippe Grégoire ] * Fix 1000_configure_userns to avoid

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful? > > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. They > have the assumption that sound cards are still simple devices with > one input jack and one output jack and an

pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Matthias Urlichs (sm...@smurf.noris.de): > Hi, > > Salvo Tomaselli: > > > > > You can restart pulse. No big problem except temporary interrupt of audio, > > You mean a temporary presence of audio that will immediately go away as > > soon > > as pulse is running again right? > > > Don't

Re: removal of the vacation package

2014-01-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > With mailbot from courier-maildrop, it's easy to do for a .mailfilter > file (though it'd be once per recipient, which is IMO enough, I don't You have an interesting definition of "easy", Thomas..:-) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Cyril Brulebois (2013-09-30): > > Yes; debian-i18n membership ping. > > > > Can't see the page on alioth due to: > > Permission denied. This project's administrator will have to grant you > > permission to view this page. > > > > so can't request i

Help needed to debug a failing bot on i18n.debian.org

2013-09-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Hello fellow developers, The i18n crowd needs your help. In order to provide translators and teams with valuable material to work, we have a few automated processes that are running on the i18n.debian.org machine. The source code for all this stuff is stored in git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debia

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Pau Garcia i Quiles (pgqui...@elpauer.org): > > That is not the case. At the moment most of this is done by the > > Debian security team. Of course some package maintainers do help. > > > > > IMHO that should be turned around: package maintainers should be the ones > responsible for upda

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > Hi Christian, > > what I am proposing is a task that install all languages. I made a bit of > research earlier, and it is not as simple as installing all the existing > tasks, > as the result on my computer was that some browsers started to display

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > About display by GUIs, I think that we should have a system to install all the > fonts necessary to display languages that we support at the installation. Such as tasksel and its language tasks? :-) In short, we already have that. However, we need p

Re: Processed: Closing is wrong

2013-07-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Debian Bug Tracking System (ow...@bugs.debian.org): > Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > > > reopen 653125 > Bug #653125 {Done: David Prévot } [debian-i18n] Farsi > characters problem > Bug reopened > Ignoring request to alter fixed versions of bug #653125 to the same valu

Re: Default desktop for jessie Was: Re: Debian/Wheezy general rant ...

2013-06-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > udev sucks! Debian should hire a developer to replace all uses of CDBS > with dh! Perl should be replaced with Python in essential! All packages > need to switch to 3.0 (quilt)! Native packages should be banned! No one > should ever be allowed to NMU

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > 1/ Your parents don't read mail? That is surprising to me. In this days > and age, everyone does. Yes. Out of 5 adult people in my family, all of them read their mail daily. 4 of them do it through a web interface and have absolutely no use of a mail

Re: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

2013-05-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ondřej Surý (ond...@sury.org): > You are most welcome to come, join the packaging team(s) and help triage > those or any other bugs. (And I do mean it for real and not as sarcasm.) > > BTW there's around 2000 open bugs marked as moreinfo, the oldest is dated > Sun, 29 Mar 1998 21:03:03 UT

Bug#706158: marked as done (general: Probleme d'affichage)

2013-04-27 Thread Christian PERRIER
> Bonjour, > > 1°) barre de menu > > - probleme d'affichage d'icone, application en cours (same icone) > - un changement de fenetre (ctrl-alt-1) permet au retour sur > L'Interface X11 >d'afficher les icones, > - probleme de mise a jour, erreur a l'execution,

Re: Bug#684128: failure to communicate

2013-04-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > But, are you seriously proposing that we leave the issue as-is ??? Of course. The issue is there since partman exists (about 2005, from memory) and has probably never prevented anyone to install Debian since then. So, yes, this issue will still be in w

Re: failure to communicate

2013-04-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting ian_br...@fastmail.net (ian_br...@fastmail.net): > If Debian bug report #684128 proves anything, it is that you will never > convince anyone with technical argument, facts advanced in support of Sorry, but Debian bug #684128 only proves one thing : that we (the D-I team) were mostly tryin

Re: Bug#684128: down the memory hole

2013-04-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
> I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking "uh, spamassassin > missed killing that spam" without reading it all. Only the very end of > the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that a > maintainer would have gone that far. *I* did hit my "Esc-L" mutt macro on that

Re: dak-roulette activated

2013-04-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (ans...@debian.org): > Scott Kitterman 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 doe

Re: Bulding 3.0.1 Under Ubuntu 10.04 i386

2013-03-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn (cristian.ionescu-idbo...@axis.com): > Yes, I finally found that list (it's pkg-running-devel, isn't it?) and I > had a look. Sadly, it looks more like a spam-box than a development > mailinglist. Can anything be done about that? I'd gladly join that list > if t

Re: Unable to find RC bug targets to squash

2013-03-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Charles Plessy (ple...@debian.org): > In the previous release cycles, it looks like the main blocker was the Debian > Installer. As soon as it was ready, lots of remaining buggy packages were > purged from Testing and release followed quite soon. Is that the case for > this > release cy

Re: Bulding 3.0.1 Under Ubuntu 10.04 i386

2013-02-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
> Old debian source packages (subsurface-1.2-1 and libdivecomputer-0.1.0), > could also be of some value. > > I'm really looking forward to see latest subsurface/libdivecomputer in > debian, as soon as it can be done. It'll most probably be unstable, but This thread is interesting. I faced abou

Re: Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-26 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > That’s what gnome-control-center does. This is not helpful for the user > who wants to select another language, though. > > The bug is that we do not install locales-all by default, nor do we > default to generate all (at least all UTF-8) locales. At

Bug#699656: general: System freezes while using multimedia via DRI [Intel 82865G chip] on kernels above 3.2.0-3-686-pae

2013-02-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 699656 src:linux forcemerge 693083 699656 thanks Quoting marc (marc_sm...@gmx.com): > I already reported this bug for the previous version of kernel [bug report > #693083], but the problem is still unsolved.++ Hello, As #693083 is still opened, I fail to see why you're opening yet anot

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-01-24)

2013-01-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > Pierre Chifflier >glpi I looked briefly at the RC bug for glpi (#694642). It seems that an embedded Flash file provided with the package has a security issue. I have no clue at all if this .swf file is of critical use for GLPI (from the directory

Re: Package version numbers

2013-01-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org): > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Jakub Wilk (jw...@debian.org): > > > I would paint the bikeshed the following color: > > > 0.8.51+dfsg1-0.1 > > > > Isn't that missing th

Re: Package version numbers

2013-01-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Jakub Wilk (jw...@debian.org): > * Stephen Kitt , 2013-01-15, 23:27: > >The version of calibre in Wheezy is 0.8.51+dfsg-1; what should the > >update's version be? I'm purposefully not mentioning our ideas > >(one of them is obvious from the exchanges in the bug report, but > >is in all like

Re: Rationale for gcc version in wheezy

2013-01-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Markus Raab (use...@markus-raab.org): > Hi Group! > > I would like to ask why most arch have 4:4.6.3-8 instead of 4:4.7.2-1[0]. > Is it because: > - Some (many) packages do not compile? > - Some (many) packages produce crashes? > - There was simply not enough time? If this is the reason: I

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Mistikos Nik (kolus...@yandex.com): > Now only old people use it. For what reason would that be a problem, by the way? Merry Christmas to you too, hohoho signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Mehdi Dogguy (me...@dogguy.org): > On 11/25/2012 02:39 PM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > Quoting Bastien ROUCARIES (roucaries.bast...@gmail.com): > >> Hi, > >> > >> I plan to fill a mass bug filling due to a proprietary code of > >> adobe i

Re: Mass bug filling about proprietary code of adobe in our type1 fonts

2012-11-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bastien ROUCARIES (roucaries.bast...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > I plan to fill a mass bug filling due to a proprietary code of adobe > in fonts hinting that is included in our fonts. Sure, it's a good idea to delay the release a little bit more, again. /me sometime secretly hopes that develo

Re: Bug#692894: ITP: plum -- plum is a command line tool used to interact with the U-Boot netconsole of any LaCie product

2012-11-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Maxime Hadjinlian (maxime.hadjinl...@gmail.com): > What about : > Description : lacie u-boot netconsole shell > ? > > Now the dumb question, to change the description, what do I do ? I > wasn't able to find that info in the docs :/ > Should I also add a more detailed description at th

Re: Bits from the release team - Freeze update

2012-11-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Benjamin Drung (bdr...@debian.org): > Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2012, 20:35 + schrieb Jon Dowland: > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 08:29:02PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > Hm, I filed two unblock requests after that deadline, but before reading > > > the announce mail about it. > > > >

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 4

2012-10-29 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > If you want to see packages migrate from sid to testing before that, > please speak up. I'm tempted to keep everything l10n-ish for release > candidates (beta 4 might be the last beta). That's fair, yes. Gives me more time to use my whip on translato

Re: [PROPOSAL v2] Orphaning another maintainer's packages

2012-10-28 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Lucas Nussbaum (lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net): > I think I agree with everybody, so here is a new version of the last step of > the proposed procedure: I read the "huge thread" quickly during last days and I think your text well summarizes what seems to be the best consensus. That's great w

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Preud'homme (robo...@debian.org): > > This is sometimes hidden by the incredible work and investment of > > several people in the project (yes, that's probably mean whoever is > > reading this). > > I don't think it's mean to recognize the amazing work some people do. At > least

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-19 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > distribution that make it more popular. But, unlike commercial > distributions, we don't *have* to be popular to succeed. We have a much > broader range of successful outcomes than a business that has to make > money. I will take this last sentence fro

Re: Debian not suitable for SSD due to apt/dpkg?

2012-10-01 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Hanke (m...@debian.org): > I'm on an Intel SSD (120GB) since Aug 2009 -- running Debian testing all > the time. I do not upgrade daily, but often. I have _not_ done any of > the optimizations mentioned on the wiki. I have on average approx 15GB > free on the drive. Obviously, I ran

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Gergely Nagy (alger...@madhouse-project.org): > Yep, that is one of the solutions I mentioned earlier. Therefore, if a > DM does care, migrating to the new system is by all means possible, and > they have very little to do, they will not be punished for another > person's absence or mistak

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.4.0 released

2012-09-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > I've just uploaded Debian Policy 3.9.4.0, which includes the Technical > Committee decision to make build-arch and build-indep mandatory targets > (but not for wheezy; see below), a substantial rewrite of the section on > shared library handling, and other

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Daniel Hartwig (mand...@gmail.com): > Is there potential to see pkgsel use apt-get instead of aptitude > (following the same change in tasksel)? There is already a patch > committed. I'll give this more of a test this week with some induced > errors during the installation. I hesitated

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > Sure, certainly true. But, assuming that we have a consensus that the > distinction no longer matters and just causes extra work (something that > I'm inclined to agree with but that I don't think we can assume we've > decided on yet), I hate to see us do

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > Well, 1 GB would be enough to hold a standard desktop installation, > while 650 MB is not. That makes a difference. It will be hard to know whether dropping support for "real" CD installs does hurt some users or not, anyway. Those who will speak, in

tasksel is everybody's business (was: Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release)

2012-08-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): > I believe joeysel now selects Xfce as the default desktop. ^^^ I think this is a bit unfair. OK, Joey's change from GNOME to XFCE hasn't really been discussed, admitedly, and there is room for some debate. But, please notice that 99

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 2

2012-08-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > The deadline should be pretty clear, and should let time for doc / > translation updates, especially on the installation guide front. > Christian, could you perform your l10n coordination magic bits? I'll send yet another call for updates, but I don't

Re: Re: Re: Re: [CTTE #614907] Resolution of node/nodejs conflict

2012-07-24 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Filipus Klutiero (chea...@gmail.com): > >The purpose of debian-devel-announce is for communicating announcements *to > >people involved with the development of Debian*. > > > >You are not a Debian developer. > > I am. Philippe, if you want to prove you're a DD, then sign you mails, pleas

Re: CD sizes again (and BoF reminder!)

2012-07-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ben Hutchings (b...@decadent.org.uk): > > partman-crypto still installs this. > > Seems like a bug...? The package is orphaned and dm-crypt has support > for a compatible encryption mode. Given the level of attention which partman-crypto got during the squeeze->wheezy release, I'd bet

Re: Concerns and Challenges of Squeeze and Ongoing Elements

2012-07-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting John L. Males (jlma...@gmail.com): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ladies and Gentlemen, I hope that everybody will be Wise Enough to not feed the troll. But, just in case: please don't feed the troll. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Martín Ferrari (martin.ferr...@gmail.com): > Have you thought of a place, or talked with anybody about that? I'm > thinking the TOG might be a good place. Isn't there some random company over there that actually happens to employ several DDs (and might be responsible for the sudden incre

Please consider stopping uploads with *uncoordinated* changes to debconf templates before the release

2012-06-12 Thread Christian PERRIER
Dear fellow developers, I would hereby kindly ask you (once again) to consider more coordination with the i18n teams when preparing uploads for packages when these introduce changes to debconf templates: either new templates, modified ones (even for trivial changes), etc. The i18n teams are curre

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > The first time I wrote it, it wasn't clear enough. Maybe writing with > CAPS-ON will help your understanding! :) > > IT HAS ALREADY BEEN MADE PUBLIC (for example: on slashdot) !!! The debian-security mailing list is a public list. My stance about sec

Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
(No CC, please, I'm subscribed to -devel) Quoting Michael Gilbert (mgilb...@debian.org): > Anyway, we've had recent threads on the continuing issues with strong > package maintenance, and from what I can tell, there is no clear > direction. The solution I'm pursuing is a liberal application of >

Re: SV: Moving the target of localization pokes (and eventually NMUs)...

2012-05-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joe Dalton (joedalt...@yahoo.dk): > pages doesn't seem to have been updated since may 2 ? This has been fixed on i18n.debian.org as of yesterday and the l10n web pages have been refreshed with this data. And, of course, here comes the bad news: - mysql-5.5 has two fuzzies because of triv

Re: SV: Moving the target of localization pokes (and eventually NMUs)...

2012-05-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Joe Dalton (joedalt...@yahoo.dk): > pages doesn't seem to have been updated since may 2 ? Yes, I've been notified of this and I'm working on it. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Moving the target of localization pokes (and eventually NMUs)...

2012-05-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
With the final steps of the release of Wheezy approaching, I will, from now on, move the focus of my l10n attention to packages that are blocking some of the localization goals. One of them is 100% completeness for debconf translations in wheezy for seven languages: Czech, Swedish, Spanish, Portug

Re: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information System (GIS) written in Java

2012-05-07 Thread Christian PERRIER
A few comments on the proposed description synopsis: > Subject: RFP: openjump -- OpenJUMP is an open source Geographic Information > System > (GIS) written in Java "OpenJUMP is": should be omitted as this is implied (see Developer's Reference) "open source": this is Debian, so everyt

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Patrick Ouellette (poue...@debian.org): > Can someone please explain to be why it is so unpalatable to > have the Node.js package in the README and in an installation/ > configuration message include the following (or similar) message: ("last minute debconf addition hater" hat ON) Please

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
(slightly off-topic) Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > No, bouncing mail when it can't be properly delivered is much better than > violating RFCs. > > Mail that is bounced with a human readable message describing the real cause > of the problem can then be re-sent once the proble

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Chris Knadle (chris.kna...@coredump.us): > for lowering of severity level. [And realistically at least in the general > case I don't think another DD is going to do an NMU if a bug is not RC.] Have you seen the gazillion of localization NMUs I'm doing for about 4-5 years now? :-) As l

Re: Description-less Packages indices

2012-02-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Davide Prina (davide.pr...@gmail.com): > the DDTSS is totally broken :-( When this change happened, I somehow secretly expected someone to step up and try fixing the DDT* things. I have to say that I personnally never anticipated the consequences of the change, even if I had been warned t

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-10 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > I categorically reject the notion that removing second-person usage from our > debconf questions is at all beneficial. And when you fix non-problems in > your language, you almost invariably make things worse by reducing clarity > or increasing verbos

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk): > Finally, the reviewer revealed in the review that they're not a native > speaker of English. Is it normal for l10n reviews to be conducted by > non-native speakers of the target language ? Are we really so short > of native English speakin

Re: Use of the first person in messages from the computer

2012-02-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > On 2012-02-09 13:20, Ian Jackson wrote: > > I have just received a review by a l10n team of a package of mine. > > > > The reviewer seems to be under the impression that there is something > > wrong with the computer speaking to the user in the first pe

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > > I don't think that d-i should be on the leading edge of this discussion. > > Once Debian has made up its mind, d-i can be updated to follow the > > consensus. > > To me it looks like there is broad consensus that a separate /usr > partition should be

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
(reducing CC as I guess that most are subscribed to -devel) Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > I don't think these things are alike. Separating /var and /tmp from the > rest of the file systems is done because those partitions contain varying > amounts of data and often fill if something

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (goswin-...@web.de): > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > handling on them. > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go > to the metapackages section. oldlib

Re: The state of geoclue in Debian

2011-12-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bernd Zeimetz (be...@bzed.de): > It should as it means that it will be a PITA to find patches which were > applied > in Ubuntu and should be applied in Debian, too - or it means that we'll just > recreate the same patches as they are hidden somewhere in the mess Ubuntu made > without talk

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-11-03 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Bill Allombert (bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr): > > What about moving the su-to-root binary to a different binary package ? > > Bill what's your PoV about spliting it ? > > I am not very keen creating a new Debian package for a 3kB script. In that case, I think that the above discu

Re: Possible mass bug filling for package depending on "menu".

2011-10-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Frank lin Piat (fp...@klabs.be): > Specious "suggests" relationship [AFAICT]: .../... > geneweb - genealogy software with web interface > Doh, my pet package is pointed fingers at...:-) Fixed in 6.00-2. Thanks for your work on this! signature.asc De

Re: forwarding bugs upstream - opt-in, delayed, automated

2011-09-13 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org): > After GHM [1], I've head a lengthy discussion with Steve White (Cc:-ed, > GNU maintainer [upstream]) about Debian's procedures for forwarding bugs > upstream. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/09/msg4.html > > The conversion to

Bug#637805: general: can't mount a usb drive as a non-root user

2011-08-15 Thread Christian PERRIER
reassign 637805 ntfs-3g thanks This either belongs to btfs-3gor some local problem that would make /dev/sdc* devices to not have the right permissions Reassigning. At least, please provide more information. Output from "ls -l /dev/sdc*" as well as "id" is imho the minimum. signature.

Re: [Soc-coordination] Removing Spam from the Listarchives (was: Debian mailing lists archives as mbox

2011-08-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Olly Betts (o...@survex.com): > rather than having a separate flag state for those, but the reports have > been reviewed by a human, so should be higher quality than the > unfiltered reports from clicks on the "Spam" buttons. Reports we get through the "Spam" buttons *are* reviewed by hu

Re: Debian mailing lists archives as mbox

2011-08-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Niels Thykier (ni...@thykier.net): > To my knowledge you can download them via: > > http://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/mbox/-MM Indeed. Well, it seems that at least Sukhbir, /me and Andreas Tille were'nt aware of this (for Sukhbir, that's understandable, for Andreas and /me, only the

Debian mailing lists archives as mbox (was: Re: [Soc-coordination] Debian Teams Activity Metrics - Report IV) [Update]

2011-08-04 Thread Christian PERRIER
(from soc-coordination) Quoting Sukhbir Singh (sukhbir...@gmail.com): > Hi, > > Here is what we implemented during this time, in more detail: > > 1. Wrote a script that fetches messages for lists.debian.org from > Gmane and then creates a mbox archive for them. This allows us to I find it real

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-20 Thread Christian PERRIER
I don't know for any of you folks, but carrying an endless thread with the name of someone doesn't make me very comfortable. Could at least people participating in this thread drop Lennart's name from the Subject: field? TIA... signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: UDD access from Alioth(s children)

2011-05-31 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (tfh...@err.no): > ]] Andreas Tille > > | I would like to repeat my question about UDD access from alioth (or > | one / both of its successors): Is there anybody working to reenable > | the UDD access? > > It's on the list of known issues. Repeating questions means less

Re: wheel group

2011-05-08 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org): > But I hope the login maintainers 'wontfix' any such bug report. This is a I suspect they would, yesbased on the advice of people they trust for such things..:-) (imho, such case is indeed something where the Technical Comittee has added value i

Bug#624771: ITP: garmin-ant-downloader -- retrieve information from Garmin GPS devices using ANT+

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Perrier Package name: garmin-ant-downloader Version : 0:20091212 Upstream Author : p...@ant.sbrk.co.uk URL : http://www.example.org/ License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C Description : retrieve

Re: Bug#623601: ITP: aspcud -- a solver for CUDF instances based on answer set programming

2011-04-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > Ralf Treinen (21/04/2011): > > * Package name: aspcud > > Version : 2011.03.17 > > Upstream Author : Roland Kaminski > > * URL : http://www.cs.uni-potsdam.de/wv/aspcud/ > > * License : GPL3+ > > Programming Lang: C

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