About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in Debian haven't been active for a long

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs. Indeed. Unfortunately, it seems that the current maintainer of Yum in

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
I forgot to add... The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since 2006. We really need something to be done for rpm as well. I have

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: I forgot to add... The current maintainer of yum AND rpm (Anibal Monsalve Salazar ani...@debian.org) has been unactive for quite a long time now, there are outstanding very serious bugs without even any reply from him since 2006. We really need something to be done for

Re: State of the release notes (was: Thanks to all)

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Praveen A [Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:49:51 -0800]: 2009/2/13 Steve McIntyre st...@einval.com: I'm going to be building CDs tomorrow. If you want to carry on doing translations for a little longer, it's up to you. Just please make sure that whatever's in place on the website at midnight tonight

Re: Bug#515132: debian-installer: source for version of dhcp3-client-udeb used in D-I not in archive

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joerg Jaspert [Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:48:40 +0100]: I tried rmadison, but that is/was broken: $ rmadison dhcp3 Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/local/bin/dak, line 248, in ? main() File /usr/local/bin/dak, line 243, in main module.main() File

Re: CD/DVD image names

2009-02-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 01:45:52PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:07:15PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: As promised to various people, just a quick heads-up of the likely image names and layout for the lenny build at the weekend. I've been doing test runs today and the

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bastian Blank: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. GNUTLS has rejected RSA-MD5 signatures in X.509 certificate chains

Re: SuiteSparse 3.2.0

2009-02-14 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Rafael Laboissiere raf...@debian.org [2009-01-07 13:45]: [N.B.: This message is being sent to the maintainers of all packages that currently depend on libsuitesparse-3.1.0.] The new upstream package SuiteSparse version 3.2.0 is now in experimental. When it will be uploaded to unstable

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2009-02-14 Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: * Bastian Blank: GnuTLS stopped accepting MD5 as a proper signature type for certificates just two weeks before the release. While I don't question the decision themself, MD5 is broken since 4 years, I question the timing. GNUTLS has

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:08:49 +0100 Luk Claes l...@debian.org wrote: Thomas Goirand wrote: Hi, Even though Debian is not RPM based, it's very important to have a working Yum package in Debian, just to be able to setup all sorts of yum based distribution in a chroot for setting-up VMs.

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Luk Claes wrote: Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug report. Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being present. I should have add it to the bug report, but

Re: About the current state of the Yum package in Lenny

2009-02-14 Thread Luk Claes
Thomas Goirand wrote: Luk Claes wrote: Why is the python-iniparse also needed? That's not clear from the bug report. Very simple: yum crashes with a not-so-nice error message when I try to boostrap a CentOS complaining about the iniparse python module not being present. I should have

firestarter

2009-02-14 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Maybe we already in release time to Lenny, but check if is possible get firestarter from SID, because this bug[1] do it unusable (it desapear after sometime running). [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498546 Best regards, Renato S. Yamane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Whoos with GnuTLS and md5-signed certificates

2009-02-14 Thread Brian May
Florian Weimer wrote: Yesterday several people started to complain that they could not longer connect to their ldap servers, many of them using pam-ldap and nss-ldap. A quick look showed certificates in the chain which was signed with MD5. Are you sure this isn't #514807? Also see

Lenny banner on website frontpage ? (was: Debian Wiki Frontpage : Lenny's banner)

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Paillard
Hi, That may certainly come late, but having the proposed Lenny banner on the website would be great. The change is very minor and checked (in template/debian/mainpage.wml for all languages). On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:49:09AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Debian Lenny banner on the wiki

Missing gmo files in pidgin-otr package

2009-02-14 Thread Thibaut VARÈNE
Hi, It just came to my attention that the pidgin-otr package completely failed to ship translation files along with the software. The fix is trivial (see interdiff below), I just uploaded to unstable a new package which solves this issue. I believe it's already too late to get it

Re: Lenny banner on website frontpage ? (was: Debian Wiki Frontpage : Lenny's banner)

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Paillard
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:04:08AM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: That may certainly come late, but having the proposed Lenny banner on the website would be great. The change is very minor and checked (in template/debian/mainpage.wml for all languages). Commited ! -- Simon Paillard -- To

Re: Lenny banner on website frontpage ? (was: Debian Wiki Frontpage : Lenny's banner)

2009-02-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Simon Paillard [Sun, 15 Feb 2009 08:38:24 +0100]: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 02:04:08AM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: That may certainly come late, but having the proposed Lenny banner on the website would be great. The change is very minor and checked (in template/debian/mainpage.wml for