Re: De-Branding of Icedove, reintroducing Thunderbird packages into Debian

2017-02-21 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 08:37:14AM +0100, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > Am 19.02.2017 um 07:12 schrieb Josh Triplett: >> Mike Hommey wrote: >>> Why not just create a ~/.thunderbird symlink to ~/.icedove if >>> ~/.icedove exists? >> This seems like the right solution. (Or, equivalently, rename >> ~/.

.la file removal, multiarch for plugins

2011-07-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(Please CC me on replies, as I'm quite behind on reading MLs. M-F-T set accordingly.) Taking this discussion out of bug#633256 and into debian-devel. On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:13:47PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:06:03 +0200 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>

Re: Three common voting errors - how to avoid them

2010-10-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 11:04:53PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > Given that there were a number (28?) sent before voting peoriod > started, I'm not convinced that people will actually do that. I wouldn't have expected receiving the call for votes before the voting period starts :) Independently

Re: "upgrading" my gpg key

2010-01-04 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:36:32PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:59:16PM +0100, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> My main gpg public key seams to be a 1024 DSA key (1024D/9D025E87). >> I would like to have a more robust main key. I've created to 4096 RSA >> subkey to sign and

Re: bug #561324: asking questions in postinst

2009-12-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 07:44:56PM +0100, Reinier Haasjes wrote: >> Why? Is it really required to have _all_ questions in the postinst? > No, not all. There are 4 questions asked. > 1) brokers list, the list is received by the package-binary and the user > selects te broker he wants to use. For t

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 03:57:28PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane writes: >> While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ >> happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly >> aptitude had about 200 pac

Re: ia32-libs depends on ia32-apt-get ?

2009-06-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
While we are on the subject of ia32-apt-get, I'm not sure _what_ happened, but after the upgrade of ia32-apt-get 14 to 18, suddenly aptitude had about 200 package in "upgradable" state that were not upgradable before. The issue is I don't remember for sure what /etc/apt/sources.list looked like be

Re: Fwd: On Wireshark and network capture in general

2009-06-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:54:48PM +0200, Jaap Keuter wrote: > I'm contacting you as I got thinking about network capture and the > security implications of that. > What I've noticed is that Debian (still) requires the user to run > Wireshark with root credentials in order to be able to launch a

Re: Debian source code search engine

2009-05-24 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:36:28AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 22:31 +0200, Peter De Wachter wrote: >> I've set up a search engine which indexes Debian's source code: >> http://walrus.rave.org/source/ > Cool - that looks really useful. However, it looks like you're jus

Re: Who uses @packages.d.o mail?

2009-05-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:30:03PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > So I've looked through a few weeks of mail logs to > packages.debian.org, (...) it seems pretty clear so far that the > domain does not get any significant amount of legitimate mail from > machines other than the debian.org hosts. I

Re: Bug#529624: netbase: networking should not be stopped on reboot or halt

2009-05-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 08:12:59AM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > The justification in the bug report is completely bogus. If the > clients did not shut down by the time the UPS master goes down then > you have bigger problems. Making the UPS daemon available for half a > second more does not make s

Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:25:59AM +0200, Luca Niccoli wrote: > 2009/5/7 Brian May : >> However, I very much dislike this Unix "feature" as it means mail can >> accumulate on any {user,system} account on any computer and not get >> noticed by the {user,system administrator}. > Not getting mail fr

Bug#522770: RM: cle -- ROM; dead uptream; buggy; better alternatives available

2009-04-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal Please remove package cle from unstable / testing; source and binaries. It is dead upstream (no release since 1999), and since I uploaded it to Debian better alternatives have appeared (such as rlwrap). Some Debian-local work has been done in the rather di

Re: new virtual package: "readline-editor"

2009-04-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:44:54PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Heya, we have several packages implementing line-editing > capabilities. I know at least 3 of them: "cle", "ledit", and > "rlwrap", but there might be others. Oh yes. Hmm... cle is dead upstream, rather buggy with no progress w

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 10:46:19AM +0200, Romain Beauxis wrote: > Le Monday 06 April 2009 08:18:33 Lionel Elie Mamane, vous avez écrit : >> My reasoning is that a package that has had only "team uploads" for >> three years is a package where effectively no huma

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 09:27:53AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 08:18:33AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:52:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >>> I proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of >>>

Re: "Team uploads"

2009-04-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 11:52:54AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > In Debian we have several teams working on maintaining large numbers > of packages (pkg-games, pkg-perl, pkg-gnome for example). I > proposed[1] to silence the lintian NMU warnings in the case of "team > uploads"; where the person doing

Re: Improvements to ‘debian /watch’ for fetching from VCS

2009-04-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:04:21AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > For my purposes, I would like to be able to specify “fetch from the > VCS at $URL, getting the specific working tree referenced by > identifier $ID” and then the rest of what uscan does for generating > an original source archive from t

Re: RFC: Better formatting for long descriptions

2009-03-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:52:10PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > I agree that some descriptions are definitely to long. I wonder who > should really read some descriptions to the end. Bad examples can > be viewn here: >http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/typesetting.html The very lon

Bug#515125: general: cpu frequency scalling crashes my system

2009-02-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
reassign 515125 linux-2.6 thanks Hi, Thank you for your bug report. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 08:13:45PM +0100, Mark Poks wrote: > i am not sure what exacly causes the problem. it maight be cpufreq, > or kernel or maybe something else (or CPU Frequency Scalling Monitor > applet in GNOME which is

Re: Data packages.

2009-02-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:39:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:03:09PM +0100, Joey Schulze a écrit : >> The data archive will contain huge packages that cannot be distributed >> through the regular archive due to their sheer size. (...) > that sounds very, very inter

Re: Should 32-bit apps work with a 64-bit kernel?

2009-02-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:46:42AM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: > I have the bug report #489917 that complains that Jed can't handle > 64‐bit kernel structures. (...) The error can be fixed by compiling > Jed with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. Should I set this option for all > 32‐bit builds or does it hav

/usr/share/doc/LANG/, non-english documentation

2009-02-02 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(Please CC me on replies.) Hi, Context: bug#513898 There seem to be a few packages that install non-english documentation in /usr/share/doc/LANG/${ll}/${pkgname} where ${ll} is the two-letter language code and ${pkgname} the package name. But it - by far - is not all packages that provide non-e

Re: I hereby resign as secretary

2008-12-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:57:06PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > Well, I haven't left, but I do far less with Debian now than I used > to. > It is still my preferred OS for a variety of reasons. (...) > I get no joy whatsoever out of the current mailing list > discussions. (...) We're here to mak

Re: people.debian.org to move to ravel

2008-09-01 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:31:41PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> Ravel (...) Also, ssh logins are restricted to key based logins, >>> password based logins are not allowed. >> What's the reason for this authentication policy, which differs >> from

Bug#494491: ITP: isabelle -- Generic theorem proving environment

2008-08-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: isabelle Version : 2008 Upstream Author : University of Cambridge (Larry Paulson), Technische Universitaet Muenchen (Tobias Nipkow, Makarius Wenzel)

Re: ITP: polyml -- Standard ML implementation

2008-08-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:45:49PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > * Package name: polyml > Version : 5.2 > Upstream Author : David Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.polyml.org/index.html > * License : GPLv2 Sorry, tha

Bug#494488: ITP: polyml -- Standard ML implementation

2008-08-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Package name: polyml Version : 5.2 Upstream Author : David Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.polyml.org/index.html * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Standard ML Description : Sta

Re: Mail headers for automated package maintenance emails

2008-05-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > b. Every tool sending automated mail to Debian Developers should add >headers of the form > X-Debian: $TOOL > X-Debian-Package: $PACKAGE >The X-Debian-Package: header can be omitted if it is not possible to >n

Re: Adding lzma to dpkg's Pre-Depends

2008-04-01 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:05:06AM +0300, Guillem Jover wrote: > As per policy 3.5 I'm bringing this up here. I'd like to add lzma to > dpkg's Pre-Depends, so that we can use lzma compressed packages > after lenny w/o having to add an lzma Pre-Depends on each .deb > package compressed that way.

Re: Intend to hijack xchat-xsys

2008-03-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:19:01PM -0200, UlisesVitulli wrote: > I've been talking with the maintainer[1] of xchat-xsys[2] (...) > Unfortunately, my suggestion of orphaning the pkg made no difference > to the current maintainer, as he showed no cares at all for it. If he showed no care at all for

Re: Notice spam

2008-03-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:55:59PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > (...) If I'm running Debian, I know it well that I'm running Free > Software and there's no warranty. Especially after having a wall of > text pushed right in my face on login (by default), any subsequent > notices are not only redu

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:17:44PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:16:03PM +0000, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:50:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> I fully support Guillem changes. C99 is almost 10 years old, we'

Re: dpkg semi-hijack - an announcement (also, triggers)

2008-03-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:50:16PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I fully support Guillem changes. C99 is almost 10 years old, we're > coding dpkg for Debian, in a sane C99/POSIX/X-OPEN/whatever > environment. Hmm... Not really. GCC's default mode is still C89+GNU extensions. It is true that t

Re: DD in Antarctic Continent?

2008-03-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:05:34AM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:14:14PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: >> In Developer Locations page(*), it seems that Debian Developer is >> in Antarctic Continent... awesome! Is it real?? > Not that one; someone made a sign error with hi

Bug#461617: ITP: wordpress-fr -- award winning weblog manager (French language version)

2008-01-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: wordpress-fr Version : 2.3.2 Upstream Author : WordPress Francophone team (http://www.wordpress-fr.net/) * URL : http://fr.wordpress.org/ * License : GPLv2,

Re: glibc 2.7

2007-11-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 11:17:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: > (...) so it was > decided to quickly upload to unstable a 2.7-0exp6 that would purposely > FTBFS, so that the source would be in unstable, but no binaries would be > available, effectively preventing building against 2.7. (*) > (*

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 10:54:06AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: >> This allows people to send bug reports to you directly using the >> reportbug tool, > I'd sort of assumed Maintainer was used for that ! It is, but not in a way that is useful to you, only useful for packages in Debian proper (

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 12:11:24AM +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote: > Lionel Mamane: >>> Roberto Sánchez: One possible solution would be for Opera to produce a "source" package of unlinked binary object files. This would allow relinking against new versions of the libraries (at least

Re: Fwd: Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(Explicitly CCing Edward in the assumption he's not subscribed to this list. The message I'm answering to is at http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/09/msg00145.html . I'd like to be CCed an followups, although subscribed.) On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:38:14AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >

Re: packages.debian.org updated

2007-09-03 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
(Please CC me on replies; thanks.) On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:58:12PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > packages.debian.org was finally updated to the new code base that > was already available some time from packages.debian.net. What are "similar packages"? I'm trying wrap my head around the fa

Re: Packaging source code and Debian diffs (was: [CMake] Producing deb package with 'ar')

2007-08-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:58:22PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 06 août 2007 à 15:34 +, mathieu a écrit : >> This will require yet another dependency to create debian: a diff >> executable (hopefully this time there is no difference between GNU- >> diff and BSD-diff) > I don't un

Re: release update: Release goals, testing transition, arch requalification

2007-08-01 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:58:47PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Ok, now to the approved release goals: > - full IPv6 support What does that mean precisely? Drop all packages that don't support IPv6? IPv6 shall be enabled if supported not too buggily? Something in between? (I'm quite certain you don'

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 01:36:49PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > Sune Vuorela wrote: >> I prefer reportbug-ng over any webinterface to recieve bug >> reports. All the information about the reporters system that is >> automatically gathered about architecture, package versions and >> such. > report

Re: Thoughts about the bug tracking system

2007-07-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 12:52:43AM +0200, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > When I'm locking at the BTS, (...) Not that it isn't effective, as > when you have learned the whole system, you can query it pretty > fast, but the threshold is pretty steep. > (...) make it a bit more user friendly, but perhaps

Re: Bug#432587: ITP: camlp4s -- Pre Processor Pretty Printer for OCaml - classical version

2007-07-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:56:02PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > * Package name: camlp4s > * URL : http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/camlp4s/ > * License : BSD > Question time: the license is BSD, but is not identical to the text > I find in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 02:23:35PM +, William Pitcock wrote: > José Miguel Parrella Romero gmail.com> writes: >> The maintainers of the xmms package in Debian are proposing the >> removal of the aforementioned package. Please read on. >> * Other distributions have already discussed XMMS remo

Bug#432325: RM: gnotepad+ -- RoM; Buggy, Gnome 1 only, no upstream

2007-07-09 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: ftp.debian.org As maintainer of gnotepad+ (and gnotepad+-help) it is my opinion they are past the end of their useful life and should be removed from Debian. 1) It has some annoying bugs nobody intends to fix (78247, 97764) 2) I severely doubt anybody is using it anymore (it never achie

Re: transition of packages into testing

2007-06-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 11:29:32PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2007-06-21 at 14:40 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> I am trying to figure out why texmacs has not entered into testing. I >> visited http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=texmacs but there I >> was not abl

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI > units. Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mars orbiter didn't crash because one (NASA) team worked in metric units and the other (private contractor) in i

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:02:19PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:27:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> (The list of permitted characters in the policy is up to date AFAIK, >>> except that "~" is

Re: How to bet back to a sane version number?

2007-04-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:27:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > Keep in mind that dpkg does not check for the validity of version > numbers. "_" is in fact forbidden, and I believe there is a check in > dak that enforces that. > (The list of permitted characters in the policy is up to date AFAI

Re: Changelog not signed by "human"

2007-03-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:56:31PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:27:04AM -0700, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: >> screen (4.0.3-0.3+b1) unstable; urgency=low >>* Binary-only non-maintainer upload for i386; no source changes. >>* Rebuild to fix a bug

Re: Call for votes for the Debian Project Leader Elections 2007

2007-03-19 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
e0acebd2-71f1-4df8-ae4d-50355ad7aa81 [ 1 ] Choice 1: Wouter Verhelst [ 9 ] Choice 2: Aigars Mahinovs [ 5 ] Choice 3: Gustavo Franco [ 3 ] Choice 4: Sam Hocevar [ 4 ] Choice 5: Steve McIntyre [ 2 ] Choice 6: Raphaël Hertzog [ 8 ] Choice 7: Anthony Towns [ 6 ] Choice 8: Simon Richter [ 7 ] Choice 9:

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for February 17, 2007

2007-02-21 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 11:42:34PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le samedi 17 février 2007 à 11:24 +, BugScan reporter a écrit : >> Bug stamp-out list for -17 06:00 ps (CST) >> Total number of release-critical bugs: 541 > This list has become too long to be of any use to the d-d-a > reade

Re: Handling of (inactive) Debian Accounts

2007-02-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:53:25PM +1100, Steffen Joeris wrote: > Why not just logging in to merkel and using "mia-todo needs-wat" ? > As far as I can see right now there are plenty of people listed > there with no packages and they can be the targets for the first > run. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/org/

Re: Bug #118715 and #246680

2007-01-24 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:07:28PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Is there no interest in fixing this even though there's patch(es!)? A cursory glance suggests that code is not actively maintained (no release since May 2005). That may be the reason the Debian bind maintainers are reluctant to

Re: Upgrade from woody to sarge - ssh strangeness

2007-01-16 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:31:12AM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> If memory serves, you need to edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config, uncomment >> the "PasswordAuthentication yes" line, and reload ssh. > With that, I only get: > Jan 16 08:28:01 pumba sshd[24998]: Failed pas

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 01:16:24PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Nicolas Boullis wrote: >> What about gender? How is it specified? > Currently it is a drop down that allows you to choose: > - unspecified > - male > - female > Which in my opinion reflects sex and not gender. And if it wants to cover the

Re: db.debian.org (and related infrastructure) updates

2007-01-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:26:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Paul Waring: >> I've seen a lot of announcement/verification emails (such as Amazon >> orders) which go out from an address that does not exist - > In the SMTP envelope? I strongly doubt that. Oh yeah, I have seen that rather o

Re: Why not scan for unmaintained packages and orphan them?

2006-12-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:19:33AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Marc Haber [Mon, Dec 04 2006, 08:51:51AM]: >> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:05:21 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >>>On Nov 30, Magnus Holmgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But what about the middle case, i.e.

Bug#398793: adduser: Non system wide readable (home) directories should not be 751

2006-11-16 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:13:38PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> Please take ~/public_html into this consideration. > ~/public_html (probably) won't work with 751, Sure it will work. As well as ~/.plan (for finger), your own picture for the GDM face browser, ... That's the whole point of 75

Re: XS-Vcs-field

2006-11-15 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:04:34PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 18:13:52 +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> My question was wheter it would be appropriate to document in the >> devref the choices of where the URL for a given VCS should point to >> or

Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy

2006-11-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 07:11:43AM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMPROVE QA > All discussion about "policy has problems" is really due to lack of > quality assurance work that prevents non-sh-compliant scripts to > enter into the packaging in the first

Re: Two versions of pan in etch?

2006-09-13 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 08:31:34PM +0200, Søren Boll Overgaard wrote: > Pan[0] is currently undergoing a major rewrite, and being the > maintainer, I am currently considering what version of pan to > include in etch. This mail[1] from one of the pan mailing lists sums > up the situation quite nice

Re: whitelisting @*.debian.org (was: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected)

2006-09-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 01:10:55PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> it's not the first time such a question is raised, I did that >>> recently enough, for a foo-package I don't even remem

Re: whitelisting @*.debian.org (was: Request to mailing list Pkg-qof-maintainers rejected)

2006-09-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> it's not the first time such a question is raised, I did that >> recently enough, for a foo-package I don't even remember (some >> python messages that bounced to me). that is completely i

Re: potential mass bug filing: sysvinit dependency

2006-09-06 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:30:19PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This may be a good time to remind maintainers that often a versioned > conflict may be more appropriate than a versioned dependency. This seems natural to me, but the policy contains this discouraging language: A Conflicts entry sh

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:59:21AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> accessible mail server. The point is that I only experience this >> problem with Alioth and SourceForge lists, where they use braindead call >> back mechanism to try and reach the

Re: Problem sending to Alioth lists?

2006-08-28 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:37:00PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Is the mailing list software on Alioth broken or misconfigured? If I > send from any host on my network other than the one which happens to be > the mail server, I get this error when I send to an Alioth list: > Aug 27 17:26:48

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?-

2006-08-22 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 08:10:46PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Lionel Elie Mamane: >> Well, I have found one. Myself. You just have to interpret the part >> after the second point as the integer part of an infinitesimal: >> Let ε be an infinitesimal, that is a str

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

2006-08-21 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:47:36PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:29:40AM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>> * Michael Biebl [Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:12:59 +0200]: that "dpkg --compare-versions '0.09' '

Bug#382128: RFH: mailman

2006-08-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
s, etc are particularly invited, as they seem to be caring for the package at least somewhat.) Get yourself an account on Alioth, I'll add you to the pkg-mailman project and sponsor your uploads if you are not a DD. Contact me with any question / proposition. Thank you in advance and b

Re: adding software packet "CSpace" (a linux p2p instant messenger) to debian..

2006-08-07 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 11:39:13PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > I want to suggest to add the new linux version of the p2p Instant Messenger > > http://cspace.in > > to Debian. See http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ on how to file a "Request For Package". -- Lionel -- To UNSUB

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:22:41AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : >> Bingo: Legitimate mail slowed down. You think the price is worth >> it, which is a valid opinion. I happen not to think so. > The question becomes: aren't you in a small m

Re: Measuring "should I greylist?" false positive rate [was: greylisting on debian.org?]

2006-07-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:03:59AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le mar 18 juillet 2006 10:00, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : >> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >>> Le lun 17 juillet 2006 22:29, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : >>> the

Measuring "should I greylist?" false positive rate [was: greylisting on debian.org?]

2006-07-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 17 juillet 2006 22:29, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : > the discussion (...) was about enabling greylisting on *certain* > *specificaly* *suspicious* hosts. a suspicious > host is: > * either listed on

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 12:47:49AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 17 juillet 2006 à 22:29 +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : >> On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:36:31AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: >>> Quoting Wolfgang Lonien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>>>

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-18 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 11:48:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 17 juillet 2006 22:29, Lionel Elie Mamane a écrit : >> Here is one: I am strongly opposed to greylisting (on mail sent to >> me or that I send), for the reason that it delays legitimate mail. > which sho

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 08:36:31AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Wolfgang Lonien ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Do we use greylisting on the @debian.org domain and especially on >> @lists.debian.org? > So, up to now, we've found Thomas Bushnell who seems really hardly > voting against greyli

Re: The correct use of debian-devel

2006-07-12 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 05:51:17PM +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote: > In particular, the primary question is: Who can write on > debian-devel? Anyone: - interested - that has constructive things to say, on-topic, that is the technical development of Debian. - that does so in a socially acce

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 08:48:43PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 08:56:52AM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:28:40PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: >>> This one time, at band camp, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: >>>&g

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 06:28:40PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh said: >> On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Adrian von Bidder wrote: >>> As I know it, the receiving MX connects the regular MX for the >>> sender address to see if *that* is ready to receive

Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-29 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:40:46PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > (...) they *have* to provide you with a passport. Not because it is > a requirement, but because you have the *right* to travel abroad (at > least it is in Spain) That's a human right, as defined by the Universal De

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 05:19:21PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane spake thusly: >> On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane stated: >>>> The US constitution appli

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 02:04:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On 27 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane stated: >> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:03:27PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Friday 26 May 2006 13:40, Joe Smith wrote: >>>> Apparently the US makes it very cle

Re: Please revoke your signatures from MartinKraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 07:03:27PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 26 May 2006 13:40, Joe Smith wrote: >> Apparently the US makes it very clear that US Citizens are not to >> be pestered at customs "OR ELSE". > If only that were true. The Americans give me hell. Joe probably meant "peste

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 04:07:22PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > The obvious example is the UK, which insists on checking your > passport if you come from the mainland. The www.britishembassy.gov.uk website suggests EEA nationals need only an ID card. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:33:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Within the Schengen area (European Union plus Norway, Vatican, > and... any others?), you travel between countries without even > waving your passport at anybody. Yes, but that's because the Schengen area is one area in this. You stil

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Re: Please revoke your signatures from Martin Kraff's keys

2006-05-27 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 04:54:19PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:45:42PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Thursday 25 May 2006 15:26, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> I'm pretty sure we can find official IDs that look so lame that you'd think >>> it's a fake > Al

Re: sending debian-private postings to gmail

2006-05-25 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:09:07PM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > (2) all mail passing through debian-private should, for each > subscriber to the list, be encrypted individually to the public key > on file for her/him. > Come to think of it, (2) isn't a bad idea. Is it feasible for this > to

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you > have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the > business of selling full internet uplinks for server hosting, or you > do business

Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required

2006-05-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti: >> Lars wrote: The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not RC? This does not fit. >>> It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on >>>

Re: PDF files and dh_compress

2006-05-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 02:21:37AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> I am strongly against compressing PDFs > To add insult to injury, PDF 1.5 introduces ``object streams'' which > allow compressing arbitrarily long chunks of a PDF file without > giving up the random-access properties of PDF. A

Re: gcc 4.1 or not

2006-05-11 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:15:21AM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 23:11]: >> there were some requests, e.g. by Martin Michlmayr to the release >> team whether we could switch gcc to 4.1 or not for etch. > I'm in favour of gcc 4.1 as it would provid

Re: bacula_1.38.8-0.1_i386.changes is NEW

2006-05-10 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:23:03AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:36:47PM +0200, José Luis Tallón wrote: >> Ok. I don't like flamewars either. There are plenty on Debian-Devel. >>> * Your clean target was ineffective and caused a huge diff.gz >> For 1.38 ? Yes. Can't cle

Re: patching a package?

2006-05-08 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:32:38PM -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote: > Sorry, I'm new to the dpkg system. I looking around on the web site > and couldn't seem to find good docs on this specific > issue. Appologies if I missed it. > I want to take a Debian source package and make a few changes to do

Re: bits from the release team

2006-05-05 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 08:07:45PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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'

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

Bug#365501: ITP: xchat-guile -- Guile scripting plugin for XChat

2006-04-30 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: xchat-guile Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Zeeshan Ali Khattak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://piipiip.net/~zeenix/xchat-guile/ * License : GP

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