Re: Packaging from scratch

2013-06-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, David Parsons david.pars...@inria.fr writes: My first question is: Is it mandatory to provide a source package to distribute a binary one or is a tar.gz archive of the sources enough ? A source package is required so that the binary packages can be automatically generated for different

Re: manual pages for trivial bash scripts and for binaries without command-line arguments

2013-03-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Boris Pek tehnic...@yandex.ru writes: But I am interested what is the best practise in case of trivial bash scripts (which usually set up necessary environment variables and launch binaries)? Also there is another question about scripts or programs which do not use command line arguments.

Re: install rule in Makefile

2013-03-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Alfonso Sabato Siciliano alfi...@gmail.com writes: I am making a package, the original Makefile has not install rule so it install anything then I have to add it. Where must I install this rule? -Patching original Makefile A good solution if you can send the patch upstream. -In

Re: install rule in Makefile

2013-03-09 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@wrar.name writes: This is not the only (or the main) mode of operation. dh_install can be used to copy files from the build dir to the package dir. aha, thanks for correcting me. I've always used it with debian/tmp but indeed the man page does talk about copying from

Bug#694940: RFS: toped/0.0+r2361-1 [ITP]

2013-02-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
be linked against them? From 7d7b06e10f9e576af2e8af1a6a207e02cfea60a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 13:19:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] toped: improve package description --- toped/control | 22 +++--- 1 files

Bug#694940: RFS: toped/0.0+r2361-1 [ITP]

2013-02-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindf...@iki.fi writes: does but since there is no -dev package surely third party executables can be linked against them? ^^^ Meant cannot here of course. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Bug#699150: RFS: begin/0.1.1-1 (ITP #699113)

2013-01-28 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Micke Nordin m...@elnord.in writes: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/begin/begin_0.1.1-1.dsc It seems that your source package by mistake includes binaries. Unpack http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/begin/begin_0.1.1-1.tar.gz and see the file

Bug#693635: RFS: openclipart2/2.0+dfsg-1 [RC] [QA] remove non-free file from orig.tar

2012-11-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Ivo De Decker ivo.dedec...@ugent.be writes: - The build process looks for duplicates in the images files, and replaces them with symlinks. The order in which the files are processed is not deterministic, so the direction of the links depends on the order in which they are found. -

Bug#693635: RFS: openclipart2/2.0+dfsg-1 [RC] [QA] remove non-free file from orig.tar

2012-11-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, Ivo De Decker ivo.dedec...@ugent.be writes: I repacked the orig tarball without clipart/pbhj/pbhj_creating_an_oval_vignette.svg (and .png), because it is non-free. See bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692735 Thanks. I started a build and can maybe upload tomorrow if

Re: Upgrade rar Package Version

2012-10-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ma Xiaojun damage3...@gmail.com writes: RAR is not open source software, they offers binaries for i386 and amd64 on Linux. http://rarlabs.com/download.htm Just out of curiousity, why is this needed? The unar package in Debian seems to work for all of the RAR files I have received recently and

Re: Upgrade rar Package Version

2012-10-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Etienne Millon etienne.mil...@gmail.com writes: It still does not support RAR 3.0 archives (#312552). unrar-free and unar are two different packages. If you read the full bug report you see my comment: unar (not unrar!) 0.99-1 in debian wheezy seems to have rar3 support. --

Re: Upgrade rar Package Version

2012-10-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Ma Xiaojun damage3...@gmail.com writes: However, rar is offered for long and now it is staying in a broken state. So we still need to maintain it. Sure, I was just suggesting that it could also be removed since there now is an open source solution. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New Maintainer Question: Upgrade to Sid?

2012-09-18 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Eric e...@azrockets.org writes: I'm a new maintainer taking over the maintenance of an existing package. I have a question about the computer on which I'm creating the package. Should I upgrade it to sid or leave it at stable? The package needs to be tested in unstable. For some packages it is

Bug#685180: RFS: sniffit/0.3.7.beta-17

2012-08-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
William Vera bi...@billy.com.mx writes: * URL : http://reptile.rug.ac.be/~coder/sniffit/ The Domain name rug.ac.be will be discontinued as of september 1, 2009. From then on only UGent.be can be used. Please replace rug.ac.be by UGent.be in the URL. --

Bug#677379: New upstream version.

2012-07-30 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Grzegorz Kolorz gkol...@gmail.com writes: * Imported Upstream version 0.1.2 * Cleaned file licenses Just curious: 1) What software uses this library? I don't see any reverse dependencies. 2) Is the upstream planning to have a public version control system? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Correct way to copy files to /home/$user?

2012-07-25 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
adrelanos adrela...@riseup.net writes: What is the correct way to copy files to /home/$user? I'd put such a feature upstream to xchat itself. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bart Martens ba...@debian.org writes: I'm personally not a fan of DEP5, because I have not yet seen any benefits, I wrote git-copyright-scan to be able to automatically update the list of copyright holders from git: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/04/msg7.html I couldn't

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/r/rpg/rpg_1.0.4-1.dsc Now there is at least the problem that you are using the $RANDOM variable of bash. It is easily predictable and should not be used to produce passwords. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-17 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: In some degree it is compensated by the fact, that double letters are excluded as well as other combinations. This forces to to call $RANDOM again and again before pick up a symbol. Calling $RANDOM again and again does not help at all. If you

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: Ok. Show me where You see password. What command in process list does show password? It's the tr commands this time. $ stap -e 'probe syscall.execve { printf(%s\n, argstr); }' -c './rpg' parketdufime ./rpg /usr/bin/cut -c 7 /usr/bin/tr

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: Fixed. Please, check it again: I'm too busy at least at the moment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: Don't worry, we have nowhere to rush. I can't check it myself, so I'll wait for You. Thank You for Your assistance. If you are going to maintain this package you really need to learn how to audit it for security issues :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: Certainly! But to resolve last issue, I should compile custom kernel, while at this time I am using Debian binary kernel. Why? systemtap works with debian stable kernels. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: I am on 3.2.0-2 I'm on linux-image-3.2.0-1-amd64 3.2.4-1 and it works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-11 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
[ Dropping extra people from Cc since this I don't think my reply is related rpg anymore. ] Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: root@mana:~# stap -e 'probe syscall.execve { printf(%s\n, argstr); }' -c 'rpg' semantic error: missing x86_64 kernel/module debuginfo under

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: Fixed: Unfortunately not. I can still see the password. Writing security sensitive software a shell script is quite challenging. I would really urge you to improve some existing program instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-06 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: May be You are using old version? Please, show me output from: rpg -V $ ./rpg -V rpg 1.0.2 (C) Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com, GPL Just think about all the commands you execute. It shouldn't be too difficult. I can

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: I've ran rpg in continues loop, but no password was caught, because it fed to grep via stdin directly from shell. To be sure, please, test it again. I can still see the password. When the generator prints Vipeza as a password it does /bin/grep

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: To advantage of this utility points it's name: READABLE password generator. If You can read (i.e. to pronounce), then it is easy for remembering. But readable doesn't means weak - it is strong enough as long as dictionary is available for

Re: Bug#659047: RFS: rpg - Readable Password Generator

2012-04-04 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Vladimir Stavrinov vstavri...@gmail.com writes: First of all in most cases it is using on workstation where are no other live users then You (or hacker breached into Your system) . Second, it is used sporadically and rarely. To catch those passwords You need continuously watching and analyze

Re: Any hint for help2man if programm does not accept help option

2012-04-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu writes: I would like to add man pages to a program which does not accept any help option but if you call it without any option it outputs the help information which would be needed to create the man page. Is there any trick to convince help2man to work on this

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: RFS: bbot

2012-01-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Thomas Ward trekcaptainusa...@ubuntu.com writes: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/bbot/bbot_7.5.6-1.dsc Replied to http://mentors.debian.net/package/bbot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Correct value for DEP5’s Format: field?

2012-01-08 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Andrea Bolognani e...@kiyuko.org writes: Given the situation, I guess I’ll just use the unversioned URI and hope DEP5 will become official soon. Maybe put the version to a comment at least? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: OT: Saving GNU/Linux FOSS in the age of Android and iOS

2011-11-04 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com writes: To get there in GNU/Linux, I'm recommending that a basic app run in a chroot and permissions jail, with hard links to the exact shared libraries with which the app was originally built and tested. I doubt chroot is enough. I think www.qubes-os.org has the

Re: creating new package without archive file (e.g. tar.gz)

2011-04-12 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.com writes: fluxbox 1.1.1+git20100908.df2f51b-2 Hmm, what is it common to have git before the date? What if upstream switches to a different VCS? Wouldn't you then need e.g. fluxbox 1:1.1.1+bzr20110412 to make sure your new version is actually newer? To me it

Re: RFS: gnetworktester

2011-03-05 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Mahyuddin Susanto udi...@ubuntu.com writes: * Package name: gnetworktester Version : 0.11.1-1 Upstream Author : Max V. Stotsky m...@pereslavl.ru * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnetworktester/ * License : GPL-3 Section : net I'm not a