Re: RFS: php-geoip (updated package)

2008-12-26 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Patrick Matthäi wrote: I had a look in your package and this makes me a headache: php-geoip (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release. Fix security issue: + formatting bug in phpinfo() From the upstream changelog: * Small bug in phpinfo() when

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-07 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Stefan Fritsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 05 July 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: - if yes add a link to a configuration file in /etc/apache2/conf.d You can add that file or the link unconditionally. That would really upset me if I

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-07 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Sunday 06 July 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: if [ -x /etc/init.d/apache2 ]; then     if which invoke-rc.d /dev/null 21; then         invoke-rc.d apache2 reload     else         /etc/init.d/apache2 reload     fi fi IMO, you should use invoke-rc.d apache2 reload || true Reloading the

Re: Factorised code for adding a file in /etc/apache2/conf.d/ and restarting apache ?

2008-07-06 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, there is no recommended policy or factorised code for this kind of packages. It would be nice to get consistent behaviour for lenny+1, though. On Saturday 05 July 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: After insallation, the package must: - Check if apache2 is there, This is not necessary. -

Re: Apache umask

2008-02-22 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Friday 22 February 2008, Martin Fuzzey wrote: To avoid permission problems it would seem I need to create a new group, add the www-data to it and set the apache umask to 002. I am thinking about doing this by modifying /etc/default/apache2 from my posinst script. Is this allowed ?

Re: Sponsor for multipipe

2007-09-16 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Sunday 16 September 2007, Christopher Zimmermann wrote: I just packaged the small multipipe tool from http://sourceforge.net/projects/multipipe. It can send its stdin to several other commands like this: cat blub |multipipe 'cat /dev/null' 'less' 'wc' I find this little tool very

Re: RFS: steam-powered

2007-08-29 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Michael Gilbert wrote: number for counter-strike. if the user doesn't own the game when it is launched like this, steam will bring up the page for the user to purchase it. Are there free games available on the steam plattform? I ask because the vast majority

Re: ITS: teamspeak-server (updated package) [SECURITY]

2007-08-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Friday 03 August 2007, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.0.23.19-1 of my package teamspeak-server. I will sponsor this. Cheers, Stefan

Re: RFS: throttle

2007-07-22 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Kartik Mistry wrote: I am looking for a sponsor for my package throttle. ... throttle - A bandwidth limiting pipe The cstream package (already in Debian) seems to provide the same feature. Can you please look at it and check whether throttle has some unique features so that it makes sense

Converting a config file into a conffile

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, I have a package with a config file that is created by postinst, and I would like to convert this file into a conffile that is handled by dpkg. Is there a way to achieve this in a way so that dpkg will silently replace the postinst-created default version with the new conffile? I expect

Re: Copyright issues GPL-PHP license

2007-05-06 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, On Sonntag, 6. Mai 2007, Alex Queiroz wrote: On 5/6/07, Neil Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also share Vorlon's opinion about the package as a whole: In addition, the concept of a webserver written entirely in PHP is utterly abominable, an example of total programming

Re: Bad practice to make a package depend on a specific kernel image

2007-01-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 03:33, Robert Collins wrote: I think its a fair and proper assumption that the stack of software is all packaged: its very easy to build a packaged, vanilla kernel - and doing so can generate appropriate information for dpkg. But on vserver and xen machines, the

Re: binary files in diff

2006-11-09 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Note perl has the ability to uudecode and encode builtin (perldoc -f pack or unpack and look at the u option.) As perl is an essential package, by using it you can save yourself a needless dependency. Ah, that's great. Can you give a short usage example - I would then prepare a patch for

Re: RFS: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together

2006-02-21 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Gregor, On Monday 20 February 2006 22:03, gregor herrmann wrote: Title: multixterm -- drive multiple xterms separately or together ITP: #353777 Standard question: Do you know clusterssh, which does pretty much the same thing and is already in Debian? If no, I suggest you take look. If

Re: RFS: tvbrowser -- TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide

2005-08-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
merge 321230 265711 retitle 265711 ITP: tvbrowser -- TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide thanks Hi, I've packaged[1] tvbrowser[2], which cloeses #321230[3] and am now seeking for a sponsor. Hint: Look for an existing Request for package bug and retitle it instead of filing a new ITP bug.

Re: Processed: Re: RFS: tvbrowser -- TV-Browser is a java-based TV guide

2005-08-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Ups. That was the wrong Reply-To... Sorry. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian directory included in upstream

2005-04-12 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi! On Tuesday 12 April 2005 20:44, Miriam Ruiz wrote: The reason I added debian subdirectory is to distribute it with the source files. Any suggestions on how to deal with that? For sam2p I created my own orig.tar.gz with the debian subdirectory renamed to debian.dist. I don't delete it

RFS: sam2p: convert raster images to EPS, PDF

2005-01-23 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, I am looking for comments and a sponsor for sam2p, a program to convert bitmap files (GIF,JPG,PNG,...) to Postscript or PDF. What makes sam2p interesting is that the resulting Postscript files are not much larger than the source files. This means they are much smaller than the files produced

Re: CERN root

2004-12-17 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi! On Friday 17 December 2004 07:30, Ricardo Yanez wrote: I have packaged CERN's root (an object oriented data analysis framework) for our internal distribution. ROOT is widely used in nuclear and particle physics labs, groups, etc. Since root is becoming the standard, substituting

Re: RFS: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday 15 November 2004 14:18, martin f krafft wrote: What is a 'client-side' implementation of the rsync algorithm? Please provide more information! Read http://zsync.moria.org.uk/paper/ This sounds very interesting. Maybe this could be used for sid's Package files? Cheers, Stefan --

Re: RFS: zsync -- A client-side implementation of the rsync algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Stefan Fritsch
On Monday 15 November 2004 14:18, martin f krafft wrote: What is a 'client-side' implementation of the rsync algorithm? Please provide more information! Read http://zsync.moria.org.uk/paper/ This sounds very interesting. Maybe this could be used for sid's Package files? Cheers, Stefan --

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, Have you tested it?  I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. Yes, it works for me. I have also briefly looked through the source package and found nothing to criticize. Unfortunately, I am not a DD either and can't sponsor it. Cheers, Stefan --

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-03 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, Have you tested it?  I don't use KDE so can't do so myself. Yes, it works for me. I have also briefly looked through the source package and found nothing to criticize. Unfortunately, I am not a DD either and can't sponsor it. Cheers, Stefan --

Re: RFS: viewglob -- A graphical display of directories referenced at the shell prompt

2004-09-02 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Kevin, that's a nice little program. Just one suggestion: Add a viewglob session type to the KDE konsole by including the file /usr/share/apps/konsole/viewglob.desktop Cheers, Stefan -- viewglob.desktop Description: application/desktop

RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-15 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi! I am still looking for a sponsor for mp3gain, a program to automatically adjust the volume of MP3s without reencoding. AFAIK there is no such program in Debian (please correct me if I am wrong) and it is great if you have a portable MP3 player that doesn't support normalizing by itself.

RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-15 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi! I am still looking for a sponsor for mp3gain, a program to automatically adjust the volume of MP3s without reencoding. AFAIK there is no such program in Debian (please correct me if I am wrong) and it is great if you have a portable MP3 player that doesn't support normalizing by itself.

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, Update: I've just tested the build on merulo.d.o (ia64), no problem there. This is good news. Thanks to you and Aaron for trying this out. OTOH, you should really fix those warnings (the same ones you see when compiling on i386). I fixed the compile warnings. But during debuild,

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-05 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, Update: I've just tested the build on merulo.d.o (ia64), no problem there. This is good news. Thanks to you and Aaron for trying this out. OTOH, you should really fix those warnings (the same ones you see when compiling on i386). I fixed the compile warnings. But during debuild,

RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-04 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi, I am looking for a sponsor for mp3gain, a program to automatically adjust the volume of MP3s without reencoding. AFAIK there is no such program in Debian (please correct me if I am wrong). It is a very simple one binary package. * Package name: mp3gain Version : 1.4.3

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-04 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Bruno, thanks for your comments. I have some questions though. On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: - I Think you must read [0](Looking at the Architecture field) Upstream supports only i386 and I somehow doubt that the source is 64bit clean (I currently have no way to test this,

Re: RFS: mp3gain -- Lossless mp3 normalizer with statistical analysis

2004-04-04 Thread Stefan Fritsch
Hi Bruno, thanks for your comments. I have some questions though. On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Bruno Barrera C. wrote: - I Think you must read [0](Looking at the Architecture field) Upstream supports only i386 and I somehow doubt that the source is 64bit clean (I currently have no way to test this,