Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Godfrey Chung wrote: I sent the e-mail to Secure Testing Team at home tonight. Hope that they can receive my e-mail. Thanks! I've added your changes to SVN. If yourself or anyone else wants to get involved in tracking security issues in Debian, please take a

Re: RFS: libpam-abl , bug fix , package is already in Debian

2012-01-28 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/21/2012 03:02 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: On 01/20/2012 06:28 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Alex Mestiashvilia...@biotec.tu-dresden.de, 2012-01-16, 20:16: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.2-2.dsc The changelog says debian/control added

RFS: python-gnatpython [fourth try]

2012-01-28 Thread xavier grave
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package python-gnatpython. * Package name: python-gnatpython Version : 54-1 Upstream Author : AdaCore sa...@adacore.com * URL : http://forge.open-do.org/projects/gnatpython * License : GPL-2+ and GPL-3+

Re: RFS: ipset

2012-01-28 Thread Joseph R. Justice
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Joseph R. Justice wrote: wouldn't it be more reasonable to use 3.0.y as the next Debian stable release's kernel? I mean, sure, if many of the other major Linux distributions, the ones which

Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Hi there, what are the chances to get packages into debian main that contain (mainly) Flash code? Its mostly ActionScript 3 code which cannot compiled with tools from debian main (mtasc is only capable of AS2), flex-sdk is not in debian at all. The source would be included (and GPL, MIT or BSD)

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Dupont
Sounds like a very bad idea. How would you compile it then? how would you port it to some crazy system, for example itanium who knows? mike On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Christian Welzel gaw...@camlann.de wrote: Hi there, what are the chances to get packages into debian main that contain

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Christian Welzel gaw...@camlann.de writes: what are the chances to get packages into debian main that contain I doubt that, everything in main needs to be buildable with tools in main. What tools can build this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 28.01.2012 13:41, schrieb Mike Dupont: Sounds like a very bad idea. How would you compile it then? how would you port it to some crazy system, for example itanium who knows? swf run in the Flash-Browser-Plugin and are not tied to some architecture of some crazy machine. As long as there is

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 28.01.2012 13:47, schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: I doubt that, everything in main needs to be buildable with tools in main. What tools can build this? flex-sdk would be able to build this - ITP: 602499 There is no way to build swf from ActionScript 3 in debian, but many (if not most)

Google Code and debian/watch

2012-01-28 Thread Patrick Matthäi
Hi, has someone a working debian/watch for files on code.google.com? My old lines do not work anymore since an longer time, e.g.: version=3 http://code.google.com/p/videocut/downloads/list \ http://videocut.googlecode.com/files/videocut_(.*)\.tar\.gz -- /* Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-01-28 Thread Jakub Adam
Hi Patrick, For libgoogle-gson-java I use version=3 http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/downloads/list?can=1 \ .*/google-gson-(\d[\d\.]*)-release\.(?:zip|tgz|tbz2|txz|tar\.gz|tar\.bz2|tar\.xz) On 28.1.2012 14:25, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Hi, has someone a working debian/watch for files on

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-01-28 Thread Teus Benschop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 01/28/2012 02:25 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: Hi, has someone a working debian/watch for files on code.google.com? My old lines do not work anymore since an longer time, e.g.: version=3 http://code.google.com/p/videocut/downloads/list \

Re: Google Code and debian/watch

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 28.01.2012 14:25, schrieb Patrick Matthäi: has someone a working debian/watch for files on code.google.com? My old lines do not work anymore since an longer time, e.g.: Take a look at this: http://googlecode.debian.net/ -- MfG, Christian Welzel GPG-Key:

Re: RFS: python-gnatpython [fourth try]

2012-01-28 Thread Eugeniy Meshcheryakov
Hi, I looked at your package and there are still some problems: - python-gnatpython does not have Privides: ${python:Provides}, it would be good to have it for packages depending on python-gnatpython and one version of python - doc package has this: Suggests: gnatpython, i guess it

Re: RFS: libconfig (requires transition)

2012-01-28 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/01/12 19:23, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:24:56 +, Jonathan McCrohan wrote: Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: Please don't change the -dev package name. All of the packages except one have versioned

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Dupont
We are not just talking about running here. people need to have the freedom to change the code, and not be tied to some vendor. we need to have all the sources needed to be able to compile all the tools needed to change the code. I will not support any debian package that can only be changed on

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: We are not just talking about running here. people need to have the freedom to change the code, and not be tied to some vendor. For Debian Main, not non-free. we need to have all the sources needed to be

Re: RFS: acsccid (New Upstream Release)

2012-01-28 Thread Godfrey Chung
Dear Kilian Finally, my package acsccid 1.0.3-1 had been reviewed by Paul and I had modified the package according to his comment. You may be busy at this moment. Please take a look of my package as soon as possible. I would be glad if you uploaded my package for me. Regards Godfrey

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Dupont
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Christian Welzel gaw...@camlann.de wrote: Am 28.01.2012 16:01, schrieb Mike Dupont: I hope that is clear, this idea will not get far. Proprietary software has very short legs around here. Neither ActionScript 3 (ECMAScript) nor flex-sdk nor the tools i have

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-01-28 17:14:46 +0100 (+0100), Christian Welzel wrote: [...] flex-sdk is licensed unter MPL 1.1 [...] It's actually the above assertion which is in question and in the process of being verified, based on my reading. The problem is, that the MPL-licensed flex-sdk is not (yet) packaged

Re: Re: RFS: dmaths

2012-01-28 Thread Innocent De Marchi
Hi Jakub, Thanks, I like the new .orig.tar more. I do wonder however, what happened to debian/dmaths.patch. Good! This patch changes seem unnecessary: If not running, nothing happens. The elimination is in debian/changelog Are these files mini_memo_dmaths_1.5.odt memo_OOo_dmaths_1.5.odt

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Joey Parrish
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 08:24, The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org wrote: On 2012-01-28 17:14:46 +0100 (+0100), Christian Welzel wrote: [...] flex-sdk is licensed unter MPL 1.1 [...] It's actually the above assertion which is in question and in the process of being verified, based on my reading.

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 28.01.2012 17:24, schrieb The Fungi: your package might be suitable for contrib until such time as flex-sdk enters main. It would probably make more sense to just wait If the packages cannot build their swf from source in lack of flex-sdk they can be uploaded to contrib, as long as all

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-01-28 08:50:32 -0800 (-0800), Joey Parrish wrote: [...] As it stood from Adobe, you had to get the source from SVN, but it was full of 1) binaries, 2) forked versions of standard Java libs, and 3) outdated versions of standard Java libs. All of these things were required in some mix to

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Dupont
Well in general I would opposed including any sources that cannot be built using free and approved tools, that is basically saying there is no source, or no means to get from source to binary. lets imagine that you have rebol, a language that has no specification and no source code, you can

automatic dependency generation for ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}

2012-01-28 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, (see #657720 for the background details and rationale) to one of my binary packages I want to add a dependency like Depends: foo (= ${source:Upstream-Version}), foo ( ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}) The question: how to achieve that given that ${source:Next-Upstream-Version} does not exist

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com writes: also, we are on the mentors list, are we really going to mentor non-free software and use up our time resources for helping people package non free software? Yes, some of us do, when it's something useful. I like having video drivers for my

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Gabriele Giacone
On 01/28/2012 02:09 PM, Christian Welzel wrote: A free runtime would be gnash. If swf is AS3 (AVM2), runtime can't be gnash cause it plays AS2 (AVM1) only. Your player would be lightspark if able. http://wiki.gnashdev.org/FAQ#What_should_gnash_play By the way, besides flex-sdk, you might try

Bug#657783: RFS: haildb 2.3.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- Library implementing InnoDB-like database

2012-01-28 Thread coldtobi
Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: normal Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor to upload this NMU, fixing the RC bug #652700. The changes are on a mininum invasive bases, so only the bug is fixed and the standard bumped as there were no changes necessary. Monty Taylor, the current

Re: automatic dependency generation for ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}

2012-01-28 Thread Alessio Treglia
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Joachim Reichel joachim.reic...@gmx.de wrote: to one of my binary packages I want to add a dependency like Depends: foo (= ${source:Upstream-Version}), foo ( ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}) I usually rely on: package ( ${source:Upstream-Version}+1~),

Bug#657783: RFS: haildb 2.3.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- Library implementing InnoDB-like database

2012-01-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Tobias Frost t...@coldtobi.de, 2012-01-28, 19:52: * Update standards version to 3.9.2, no changes required No, no, no. We don't do such things in NMUs. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Processed: severity of 657783 is important

2012-01-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 657783 important Bug #657783 [sponsorship-requests] RFS: haildb 2.3.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- Library implementing InnoDB-like database Severity set to 'important' from 'normal' thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Re: automatic dependency generation for ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}

2012-01-28 Thread Joachim Reichel
Hi, On 01/28/2012 08:03 PM, Alessio Treglia wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 7:33 PM, Joachim Reichel joachim.reic...@gmx.de wrote: to one of my binary packages I want to add a dependency like Depends: foo (= ${source:Upstream-Version}), foo ( ${source:Next-Upstream-Version}) I usually

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! * Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com [120128 19:14]: Well in general I would opposed including any sources that cannot be built using free and approved tools, that is basically saying there is no source, or no means to get from source to binary. lets imagine that you have rebol,

RFS: unetbootin (New upstream release)

2012-01-28 Thread Muneeb Shaikh
Dear mentors, I am looking for a sponsor for my package unetbootin. * Package name: unetbootin Version : 568-1 Upstream Author : Geza Kovacs geza0kov...@gmail.com * URL : http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPLv2 Section : utils It

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Christian Welzel
Am 28.01.2012 21:20, schrieb Alexander Reichle-Schmehl: That's also the stance of the ftp team: swf-files, even their source is available and licendes under a DFSG-free license, are consider not suitable for main. We regularily reject packages because of that. Is it because of they cannot

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 28.01.2012 22:33, Christian Welzel wrote: Is it because of they cannot be build by tools in main or because of other reasons? just that. Refer to the Debian Policy 2.2.1 [1]. Packages in main must not require a package outside of main for

Bug#657393: RFS: skstream/0.3.6-1 [ITA] -- IOStream C++ socket Library

2012-01-28 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Stephen M. Webb stephen.w...@bregmasoft.ca, 2012-01-27, 21:26: * debian/rules: add --with autoreconf to regenerate autoconfigury A typo, though I'm not sure which word you had in mind. :P I don't see the typo. I added --with autoreconf to regenerate the autoconfigury (config.guess,

Re: Fwd: RFS: gcc-4.5-doc-non-dfsg

2012-01-28 Thread Samuel Bronson
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Samuel Bronson naes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: Samuel, thanks for doing this. However, I'm trying to get gcc-4.5 removed from unstable soonish, so I would like to see this for gcc-4.6 (and 4.7 as

Bug#657783: RFS: haildb 2.3.2-1.1 [NMU] [RC] -- Library implementing InnoDB-like database

2012-01-28 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Samstag, den 28.01.2012, 20:12 +0100 schrieb Jakub Wilk: * Tobias Frost t...@coldtobi.de, 2012-01-28, 19:52: * Update standards version to 3.9.2, no changes required No, no, no. We don't do such things in NMUs. -- Jakub Wilk Fine with me, reverted uploaded. -- To

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Christian Welzel wrote: what are the chances to get packages into debian main that contain (mainly) Flash code? Its mostly ActionScript 3 code which cannot compiled with tools from debian main (mtasc is only capable of AS2), flex-sdk is not in debian at all.

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Dupont
This is great, I have joined the fight http://occupyflash.org/ mike On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Paul Wise p...@debian.org wrote: As someone who has worked on Flash stuff in Debian (I maintain mtasc, flasm), I say Flash needs to die in a fire. -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Dmitry Smirnov
Hi Paul, On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:13:34 Paul Wise wrote: I say Flash needs to die in a fire. If you have upstreams who have Flash components, please spend your time working on transitioning them to JavaScript, the new HTML5 tags (audio, video, canvas etc) and other new web technologies (like

Re: Flash in debian

2012-01-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: By the way, do you think SVG worth attention? Definitely, historically it wasn't well supported in web browsers, that seems to be improving though. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to