Re: glibc2.0-2.1 incompatibility: _xstat?

1999-05-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a workaround, so that I can continue to use these libraries? Write a small shared library providing _xstat and preload it. I wrote this to do that, unfortunely it wasn't enough for my program (a program compiled with the Portland Groups'

Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-27 Thread Simon Josefsson
This was originally on debian-legal, but it was suggested to ask here before mass-filing bug reports. Opinions? Should we file bugs for this? What severity? MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think you should file bug reports, but I think you should ask a wider or higher audience (maybe

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
I went over the package list more carefully, and it seems the only two public domain RFCs that are included in Debian testing: usr/share/doc/dhcp3-common/doc/rfc951.txt.gznet/dhcp3-common usr/share/doc/camstream-doc/tech/rfc959.txt.gz doc/camstream-doc The following

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Josefsson: text/xml2rfc From the debian/copyright file: | The software is released under the following license. Note that the | output produced by xml2rfc may include more restrictive copyright | statements, to conform with ISOC and IETF

Re: Packages containing RFCs

2006-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Riku Voipio [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 28 April 2006 13:34, Simon Josefsson wrote: The following packages appear to contain IETF RFCs/drafts, and I'll file bug reports for them: As per good mass filing practices, can you create a linda/lintian test out of your method you used

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.05.11.1535 +0200]: * License : GPL v2 or later That will make it pretty useless for

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:46:22PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Kari Pahula [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.05.11.1535 +0200

Re: Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, gnutls changed their ABI again. ... Gnutls in Debian is properly versioned (as opposed to Upstream, which dropped the versioning script for no good reason), and thus I am The change was discussed on the mailing list:

Re: Another gnutls ABI change / (small) mass bug filing

2005-08-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Matthias Urlichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The change was discussed on the mailing list: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.gnutls.devel/464 If you had reported this problem to us, we would fix it. Sorry about that -- I didn't read the list consistently. My fault. :-/

Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi. I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested in creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5 implementation, and its related GSS-API library. Web pages are available at: http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/ http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/ Shishi and GSS can

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-29 Thread Simon Josefsson
Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:43:43PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: One advantage with my Kerberos 5 implementation compared to MIT/Heimdal is that it support Kerberos 5 over TLS, which means that you can use X.509 or (work in progress) OpenPGP keys

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested in creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5 implementation, and its related GSS-API library. Web pages are available

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
J. Bruce Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:32:58AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should be duplicated in the apt install scripts

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having you as a co-maintainer would be great. I expect the initial packaging to be simple, it is just a './configure make install' package. Part of the 'make install' procedure should be duplicated

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me) known

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I notice from http://josefsson.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/shishi/README?rev=1.30view=markup that this lib is distributed under the terms of the GPL only, so I have my

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Steinar H. Gunderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:01:41PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: Shishi can co-exist with either of MIT or Heimdal. It doesn't use a similar API at all. The library has a clean name space (shishi_*). The tools doesn't conflict with any (to me

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: other), the addition of licensing problems means that there's basically no motivation for anyone to try to use shishi. One motivation would be to get the unique features that Shishi has that the other Kerberos implementation has. E.g., non-ASCII

Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

2005-09-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The software area in which you're writing code is fairly mature and even standardized. Pretty much everything that does SASL uses Cyrus SASL. It is not even that good, plenty of applications implement their own SASL code. A quick ldd $bin|grep sasl

Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hi everyone! I know the copying conditions of IETF RFC's has been a concern for Debian in the past, and that the RFCs has been removed from the official archive (?), so I thought this would be of some interest to you. I am trying to influence the IETF to change the copying conditions on RFCs to

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Josefsson: I explain the current problems, and I try to put together a proposed update, and I have a petition online at: http://josefsson.org/bcp78broken/ Very nice, thanks. I think you might get broader support in the vendor community

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wesley J Landaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 06 October 2005 06:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: I know the copying conditions of IETF RFC's has been a concern for Debian in the past, and that the RFCs has been removed from the official archive

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Paul TBBle Hampson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:16:03PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 06 Oct 2005, Russ Allbery wrote: Unlimited distribution isn't the problem. Modification and redistribution of modified

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Josefsson: I think you might get broader support in the vendor community if you make the license for modified copying non-copyleft. Yes, that is the intention. Requiring a copyleft license is likely to meet with disapproval from too many

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Peter Samuelson: * Simon Josefsson: The Contributor grants third parties the right to copy and distribute the Contribution, with or without modification, in any medium, without royalty. If the Contribution is modified, any

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson writes: Is that license acceptable to the Debian community? Looks fine to me. Is it going to be retroactive? It is a good question. The RFC Editor has claimed that the RFC 2026 license apply to older RFCs too, in particular RFC 1510

Re: Effort to change IETF's copying conditions for RFCs

2005-10-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, RFCs with the new license doesn't include the license template itself, it just reference BCP 78. So if BCP 78 is updated, perhaps it automatically apply to RFCs that simply reference BCP 78. I

Re: Outdated config.{sub,guess} package list

2009-04-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michal Čihař ni...@debian.org writes: Dne Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:10:24 +0300 Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net napsal(a): Like lintian, your list falsely includes packages that use cdbs to build, which automatically updates config.{sub,guess}. If you don't build depend on autotools-dev,

Re: What about default-syslog [Re: new release goal default-mta?]

2009-05-05 Thread Simon Josefsson
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: I think it is a problem extending to all virtual packages, and I would like to see a more general solution which is applicable to all. It might be worth revisiting past discussion, for example this thread:

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

2009-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Philipp Kern tr...@philkern.de writes: On 2009-05-11, Brian May b...@snoopy.debian.net wrote: On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 11:31:07PM +0200, Jens Peter Secher wrote: +1 for ssmtp I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths

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

2009-05-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jakub Wilk uba...@users.sf.net writes: * Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org, 2009-05-11, 12:55: +1 for ssmtp I found ssmtp couldn't cope with mail my various systems were generating, something about fixed maximum buffer lengths from memory. Please not ssmtp. If I recall it correctly I

Re: Second call for votes for the debian project leader election 2007

2007-03-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Kalle Kivimaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With Gnus+Mailcrypt, I was unable to vote with a signed but not encrypted ballot. The voting daemon claimed that there was some kind of quoted-printable problem. This surprised me: Gnus and Mailcrypt have not

Re: The number of etch installations is rocketing...

2007-04-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
Fabio Tranchitella [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * 2007-04-12 11:29, Joey Hess wrote: I wonder if it would be reasonable to make d-i hit one of two urls depending on whether the user chose to enable popcon, and count the results. Isn't this a violation of user's privacy? If the user hitted

Re: GSASL Maintainer Missing in Action?

2007-06-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jorge Salamero Sanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 14 June 2007 04:20:53 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two weeks ago I've sent an email no Yvan, asking if he was still interested in maintaining those packages. Both have newer upstream versions. There is a bug with a patch for libgsasl7 that

Re: intent to hijack gsasl

2007-08-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Jorge Salamero Sanz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thursday 02 August 2007 21:06:10 Russ Allbery wrote: Simon Josefsson helps maintain Debian packges for several of his other packages (gss, shishi) and may be willing to help.  He's also generally great about staying in touch with the Debian

Re: nethack -- Doesn't purge all files after piuparts Install+Upgrade+Purge test

2008-09-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Arnaud Fontaine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Before I maintain nethack-el, it was not relying on dh_installemacsen and startup file was installed as /etc/emacs/site-start.d/50nethack.el. However, it now relies on dh_installemacsen and the file is now installed as

Re: Bug sprint !

2008-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Josselin Mouette [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, there are currently 122 RC bugs remaining that affect both testing and unstable. We need to fix them NOW. However, in the permanent BSP state that has lasted for quite some time, people seem to lose focus on this urgent need for the release.

Re: [DRAFT] resolving DFSG violations

2008-10-30 Thread Simon Josefsson
William Pitcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 22:52 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But regardless, Debian has promised that Debian is only free software. Then why does Debian have non-free? Is that not part of Debian? One way to resolve this dilemma is to realize that

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The solution to your problem already exists (actually, it has been *designed* for that): http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat , it just needs someone with the energy of finalizing the proposal (most likely via a DEP), so that is stops

Re: volunteers wanted for driving/finalizing a DEP on debian/copyright format

2008-12-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey, On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 12:25:20PM +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The solution to your problem already exists (actually, it has been *designed* for that): http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:45:12 +0100 Kjeldgaard Morten m...@bioxray.au.dk wrote: Thanks. Unless you setup some experimental method, any argument should reduce to handwaving or extension of various particular examples.. Surely, it must be

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
James Vega james...@debian.org writes: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, markus schnalke mei...@marmaro.de wrote: [2009-01-15 22:37] Michael Goetze mgoe...@mgoetze.net before wild speculations ensues, you might want to specify what you really want to know: the percentage of people installing

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:24:58 +0100 Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org writes: Surely, it must be possible to get an estimate of the number of downloads of important packages and security updates? I

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: Merely the number of distinct IP addresses downloading a particular popular update from security.debian.org at least once would be interesting. Did you think about thousands of computers having 'private

Re: percentage of popcon submitters

2009-01-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Bernd Eckenfels e...@lina.inka.de writes: In article 87d4enbfqd@mocca.josefsson.org you wrote: It would establish an upper bound of well-administrated debian machines, I think. It is a lower bound, since I guess there are more cases where more than one machine is updated. The case that

Re: Requirement for a “proper manpage” for every command

2009-03-02 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: I'm having a conversation with a Debian packager regarding a manpage that, currently, is a mere placeholder saying “please see foocommand --help”, giving none of the useful information normally found in a manpage. ... I have submitted a manpage

Re: Parallel build results

2007-12-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Daniel Schepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got through the test builds of all the source packages in sid for i386 using dpkg-buildpackage -j3 on a dual core machine. The results as before are at http://people.debian.org/~schepler/build-logs/bymaint.html . Which said: shishi:

corrupt zip/tar archives in the repository?

2008-03-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository (see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages that contain corrupt zip/tgz archives. Logs from unpacking them are available from: http://josefsson.org/broken-debian-origs/ The error messages are mixed in the output due to

Mass bug filing: corrupt zip/tar archives in the repository?

2008-04-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
There weren't much response on this. I'll go through these bugs now and file them as wishlist bugs. Any objections? /Simon Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While recursively unpacking source archives in the debian repository (see [1]), I noticed a small number of packages

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No responses? No one cares enough to comment? Lets see if a change in subject helps. Do the files created from the RFCs also have the same restrictive license as the RFCs themselves? The text of the RFCs is

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in,source packages

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Russ Allbery wrote: This seems to imply that you no longer have a file named rfc3454.txt? You want to strip all the text out of that file except for the table, but leave the table in the tree still named rfc3454.txt. This would imply understanding

Re: buildd path name length

2008-07-03 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Suppose that a package wants to create a UNIX domain socket as part of its test suite. If the socket is created within the package build directory, this might fail because of the quite low path name length limit. What is the correct way of dealing

Re: Fun with libtool and cross-builds

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Wookey woo...@wookware.org writes: At this points it calls the linker and adds -L/usr/lib on the front - thereby adding this path in front of the default cross-compiler path. Please try to debug where the -L/usr/lib comes from, I don't believe libtool is adding this by itself but instead it is

Re: sslv2 and openssl 1.0

2011-04-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
If there are any packages that uses SSLv2 by default you might want to file a security bug to get them fixed. I believe SSLv2 is really that bad, it just gives a false sense of security. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 09:30:05AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com writes: Patches to WebAuth to support NSS are welcome, but I'm sure not going to bother.  Seems like a waste of time to me.  If I were going

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-04-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: On Apr 27, Bastian Blank wa...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:20:55PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: The reason is that the kind of entities which require FIPS 140 probably also tend to require corporate vendor support, which we do not

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes: This is the root cause, I think. libgcrypt was developed as part of gnutls, and although it's a separate library, it's insufficiently generalised. It's implicitly doing things the way gnutls wanted them doing, and rather than making the library

Re: Best practice for cleaning autotools-generated files?

2011-05-08 Thread Simon Josefsson
Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de writes: * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org schrieb: I'm (as upstream) using serval macros in their own .m4 files (eg. in ./m4/, maybe even sorted into subdirs). Can autoreconf figure out the required search pathes all on its own ? The problem

Re: libgcrypt brain dead?

2010-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian May br...@microcomaustralia.com.au writes: Or is there another way? There is the option of changing GnuTLS to use something other than libgcrypt. There are APIs for doing this dynamically in GnuTLS, and if that is not sufficient (if you want to avoid linking to libgcrypt entirely) we

Re: Providing Webfs with GnuTLS-support.

2010-03-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Mats Erik Andersson mats.anders...@gisladisker.se writes: Hello, the package for the small web server Webfs has had SSL-support inactivated at least since July 2006, when #395873 began discussing migration to GnuTLS. Nothing ever happened, but now, having recently adopted the package, I am

Re: Hardware trouble ries.debian.org - ftpmaster.debian.org / release.d.o services disabled

2010-03-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Joerg Jaspert jo...@debian.org writes: Now, should the technician not be able to resurrect ries, our backup plan extends to have the disks shipped over and replace the ones currently in rietz. I'm wondering if Debian has the resources (DSA, local admins and hardware) to have a hot-swappable

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-10 Thread Simon Josefsson
Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bug #390664 inspired me to look in source packages for IETF RFC/I-D's too, and the situation seem to be more problematic. I've put a list of packages in testing (as of a few days ago, my mirror is slow) that appear to contain IETF RFC or I-D's

Re: Non-free IETF RFC/I-Ds in source packages

2006-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Gervase Markham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson wrote: http://wiki.debian.org/NonFreeIETFDocuments A useful thing to add to that page would be simple instructions on how those authoring IETF documents could make them available under a DFSG-free licence (presumably in parallel

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Josefsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 13:19]: I went over many packages looking for names of likely non-free files, and there may be false positives. If this is the case for your package, I'm sorry for the noise. Sorry

Re: Mass-filing RC bugs about IETF RFC license based on file name

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Simon Josefsson] Do you have suggestions to improve the situation? I would suspect manual inspection of each file, and only file bugs for the files with real license problems. Using the file name to guess about the existence of a serious bug

Re: Mass-filing RC bugs about IETF RFC license based on file name

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
://packages.qa.debian.org/s/subversion.html. Probably a temporary problem... /Simon [1] Old e-mail: From: RFC Editor rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org Subject: Re: Copyright and copying conditions for RFC 1510? To: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: RFC Editor rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Simon, On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:48:50PM +0200, Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Barth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Simon Josefsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061016 13:19]: I went over many packages looking for names

Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Some raised a concern with false positives in my reports -- and also tagged all the bugs with etch-ignore. I went through all bug reports manually yesterday (see earlier mail), but I also realized that it would be possible to do this automatically, to provide further assurance that the bugs

Re: Bug#393411: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The second problem seems to be generic. The reason I looked at packages in testing was that they are the packages that are going to be released, and if I look at what's in unstable, it seems that I

Re: Source package contains non-free IETF RFC/I-D's

2006-10-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
On 17 okt 2006, at 18.47, Luk Claes wrote: Some statistics: 74 packages 401 MATCH, i.e., the RFC in the source package is an authentic RFC 79 MISMATCH, i.e., the RFC differ from the authentic RFC 6 FETCH-FAIL Note that not all authentic RFC documents have the same license, some of

Re: Archive signing key for 2007?

2007-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au writes: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:21PM +0100, Javier Fern?ndez-Sanguino Pe?a wrote: I thought that the 2007 key was (based on [1]) supposed to be available early in January and available in the debian-archive-keyring package. Which doesn't seem to be

Re: Bug#580221: ITP: python-libssh2 -- python-libssh2 is a python binding for libssh2 library.

2010-05-04 Thread Simon Josefsson
Frank Lin PIAT fp...@klabs.be writes: - libssh2 is the thin library implementing client side of SSH2 protocol as defined by Internet Drafts SECSH-TRANS, SECSH-USERAUTH, SECSH-CONNECTION, SECSH-ARCH, SECSH-FILEXFER, SECSH-DHGEX, SECSH-NUMBERS, and SECSH-PUBLICKEY . This boils down

Re: Archive area for clamz (Amazon MP3 downloader)

2010-05-31 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michael Banck mba...@debian.org writes: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:13:51PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 07:03:16AM +0200, sean finney wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 09:40:48PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: The difference is that those tools provide a reasonable

Re: Hydra is not really free

2010-06-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes: Hi guys! Good news! Hydra is now beeing maintained again, and it is now free! Thanks to its maintainer, hydra is now set under the GPLV3. Yeah! Please take a look: http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-hydra/ Maybe you might want to put it back

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org writes: Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org * Package name: simon Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org * URL : http://www.simon-listens.org/ *

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org writes: Peter Grasch, le Tue 14 Sep 2010 22:22:42 +0200, a écrit : I haven't really thought about it but the license shouldn't be an issue afaik. This topic has come up multiple times already but have a look at theses discussions on why I think this

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org writes: Peter, have you prepared a source *.deb yet? It would be interesting to look at the code to understand how critical the non-free component is. Sure. There are complete packages in the Ubuntu ppa:

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org writes: Hi! One conclusion from earlier discussions about the Julius license on debian-legal was that it was non-free: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-le...@lists.debian.org/msg40898.html The thread isn't completely clear to me what the exact

Re: Bug#596511: ITP: simon -- Open source speech recognition

2010-09-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Peter Grasch gra...@simon-listens.org writes: Hi! Am 2010-09-21 16:39, schrieb Simon Josefsson: Is Julius dynamically linked to Simon? I wonder whether GPLv2 is compatible with the Julius license. Yes it is. The simon license contains a special exception to allow this. This is also

debian/copyright, DEP5 and SPDX

2011-12-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
I just stumbled upon this initiative: http://www.spdx.org/ It is a way to specify the licensing and copyright information (and more) for software packages. There is some overlap between debian/copyright file and especially the DEP5 format. Alas, the SPDX format is XML based, an example for GNU

Re: debian/copyright, DEP5 and SPDX

2011-12-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Michael Shuler mich...@pbandjelly.org writes: On 12/13/2011 09:17 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Possibly DEP5-compliant files could be generated from SPDX files. This has come up in several DEP5 discussions over the past ~year, as well as several recent mentions: https://www.google.com/search

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Note that Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller is different than Copyright (C) 2011 Peter Miller is different than Copyright (C) 1991, 2012 Peter Miller, so the cross product is going to be substantial for long lived projects, even when the number of

libidn re-license

2012-03-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. I'd like to upload the latest version into Debian before Wheezy since a pretty nasty inifinte-loop bug has been fixed. However, I am not certain what should be done before uploading a

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: I would suggest asking the FSF licensing folks and debian-legal. Good point about debian-legal, I'll repost the question there. I have talked to the FSF and they suggest LGPLv3+ but will live with dual-GPLv2+|LGPLv3+ if there are significant GPLv2-only

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: * Simon Josefsson: I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. I'd like to upload the latest version into Debian before Wheezy since a pretty nasty inifinte-loop bug has been fixed

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes: (GPLv2-only and LGPLv3+ are incompatible.) Nowadays, almost all GPLv2-only programs link to library code licensed under the GPLv3 (with a linking exception on the library side), so we pretend that they are, at least to some degree. How does that

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-07 Thread Simon Josefsson
Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org writes: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 20:35:53 +0100, Simon Josefsson wrote: I co-maintain the libidn package. As upstream, I recently relicensed it from LGPLv2+ to GPLv2+|LGPLv3+. So maybe that's a stupid question, but... Why? You didn't have enough license

Re: libidn re-license

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
Thanks for several responses -- however the underlying question I had, whether the upload the new package to unstable or not, was not resolved. Does anyone see any reason to delay or abstain from the upload? If not, I'll do the upload within days. /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org writes: On 08/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: What I didn't know until recently is that the minified version in the source package should be removed (or the appropriate full version should be

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org writes: ❦ 19 août 2012 15:11 CEST, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org : The difference is that we need to bug upstream about a file that we won't even use. There is no real bug (not even a licensing issue). They are distributing files without source, so

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-19 Thread Simon Josefsson
Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org writes: On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: As for verification, having the source next to the minified version does not guarantee anything about the minified version, all the more that we don't have currently

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: Files-Excluded: docs/source/fonts/* docs/source/javascripts/jquery-1.7.1.min.js docs/source/javascripts/modernizr-2.5.3.min.js ... Regarding the implementation there was some uncertainity about the actual Perl module to use. In the attached

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-21 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 01:25:26PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: How about resolving the empty directory problem by permitting the Files-Excluded to match directories? Thus, if you want to remove the docs/source/fonts/ hierarchy, you would instead write

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
Damien Raude-Morvan draz...@drazzib.com writes: IMHO, it's obvious that yui-compressor is not - anymore - the most efficient javascript minifier and better alternative exists. It's simply not used anymore by big players of Javascript libs (like jQuery) so it receives less attention (even from

Re: X- Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648.

2012-09-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: Hey. Apart from the question whether this RFC is anyhow reasonable... On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 08:55 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Category: Best Current Practice Can a BCP deprecate stuff which is standardised by RFCs from the standards

Re: X- Prefixes deprecated by RFC 6648.

2012-09-14 Thread Simon Josefsson
Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net writes: On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:18 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: What RFCs are you thinking of? The X- stuff was removed from e-mail standards long time ago, IIRC. Well I don't have all RFCs in mind,... but weren't there others, that gave x

Re: (seemingly) declinging bug report numbers

2012-10-11 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marco Nenciarini mnen...@debian.org writes: Il giorno gio, 11/10/2012 alle 02.46 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer ha scritto: On the other hand, some worries are there that this could imply some decline in Debian itself. Well I still think Debian is the best distro out there for most (if

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
FWIW, I support moving forward with #6. /Simon You wrote: My gut reaction was that #5 or #6 are the best option (leaning to #6). However I guess I don't understand what making something a system library effects the license? Andreas Metzler ametz...@debian.org wrote: Hello, Debian ist

Bug#745139: ITP: libykneomgr -- Yubico YubiKey NEO Manager library and tool

2014-04-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libykneomgr Version : 0.1.2-1 Upstream Author : Simon Josefsson si...@yubico.com * URL : http://opensource.yubico.com/libykneomgr/ * License : LGPLv3+ Section : utils This is a C library

Re: Unicode 7.0 released - some packages contain outdated embedded data copies

2014-09-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Paul Wise p...@debian.org writes: Please ask your upstreams to remove the Unicode data files from their version control systems and source tarballs and instead check for and use external Unicode data files at build-time or run-time. Then your packages can Build-Depend or Depend on the

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