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PostgreSQL 9.1 and Lucene Core for F16
by Michał Piotrowski 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

Hi, Are there any plans to provide PostgreSQL 9.1 in Fedora 16? PostgreSQL 9.1 is in beta2 now and it's scheduled for Q3 2011. It would be nice to see Lucene Core in F16. There is an old Lucene 2.9.x for F16 - the latest upstream version is 3.3. -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/

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OpenCV update to 2.3.1 (ABI change).
by Nicolas Chauvet 10 Sep '11

10 Sep '11

Hello, I've to updated opencv to 2.3.1 in f16 and rawhide today. This will involve an ABI change so a rebuild of the dependent packages are needed: player kipi-plugins libkface gstreamer-plugin-bad-extras mrpt fawkes player I've submitted a build override that should be available in 20minutes from now for f16: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/override/edit?build=opencv-2.3.1-1.… that until tuesday. Thx Nicolas (kwizart)

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bugzilla bugzappers?
by Bert Desmet 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

hi! This is something I got in my mail box today. As I don't have a valid answer for this, maybe someone else can answer for me? cheers, Bert the url of the blog of the guy: http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ == the mail == Dear Fedoracommunity, Over the course of the day I recieved 22^3 mails from your friendly Bug Zapper. Most of those bugs where bugs I had reported upon crashes using bug-buddy. Bugs on different desktop tools such as .. synergy, evolution, gwibber , gnome-settings and probably some others I do understand that I development goes on and on .. and your fancy devs don't care anymore about bugs I reported on Fedora 12 as they are all hacking on Fedora 15. But what I don't get is that non of these bugs was ever touched, they've been automatically created , and automatically closed <a href="http://tieguy.org/blog/2004/09/">Luis</a> already told us ages ago .. that every project needs a bugmaster apparently Fedora replaced that bugmaster with a Bug Zapper. So can someone please explain my why I should continue to try to improve Fedora by reporting bugs ?

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Notice of intent: patching glibc
by Adam Williamson 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Hey, it's been a quiet week so far... I'm intending to update glibc for F16 using provenpackager privileges tomorrow to fix https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=730856 using the patch submitted upstream at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13013 , if the glibc upstream developers and/or Fedora maintainers do not respond to the bug before then. I raised the issue on this list on 08-08 and filed the bug on 08-15. The patch was submitted upstream on 07-21. Andreas Schwab is very active on this list, so it seems unlikely that he would not be aware of the issue, yet there has been no response at all. It's downright absurd for there to be a known and understood crasher bug, affecting all users, in such a critical component for so long without any acknowledgement or response by upstream or the Fedora maintainers. This and the Flash audio corruption mess make it fairly clear that glibc maintenance is not what it should be for such a crucial package. Given that, the only sensible approach seems to be to go ahead and Just Fix It. Myself and Kevin Fenzi have been using the patch for a while, so it's not untested. glibc maintainers / developers, if you don't want me to do this, please start giving a crap about your bugs. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Review swap request: moonscript, lua-alt-getopt, lua-inotify
by Michel Alexandre Salim 04 Sep '11

04 Sep '11

Dear contributors, Is anyone interested in some review swaps? These packages should be quite straightforward: moonscript -- moonscript is to Lua what coffeescript is to Javascript (improved syntax, lots of convenience features -- from for-comprehensions to OOP) You need to recompile lua-filesystem and lua-lpeg from Rawhide, but that should be straightforward. They'll be built for F-16 as well, but we're probably not going to build them for F-15 unless requested https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731003 lua-alt-getopt -- an alternative getopt module, modeled after BSD's getopt_long (needed by moonscript) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731000 lua-inotify -- inotify bindings for Lua (optional requirement for moonscript) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=731001 Thanks, -- Michel Alexandre Salim Fedora Project Contributor: http://fedoraproject.org/ Email: salimma(a)fedoraproject.org | GPG key ID: 78884778 Jabber: hircus(a)jabber.ccc.de | IRC: hircus(a)irc.freenode.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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[HEADS UP] remove ddate(1) command from rawhide
by Karel Zak 03 Sep '11

03 Sep '11

I'd like to remove: ddate - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates command from rawhide (F17). IMHO this crazy command is used by very very small minority of Fedora users. Comments? Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> http://karelzak.blogspot.com

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Oh god, my eyes (packaging a hairball of bundled PHP stuff, tt-rss)
by Adam Williamson 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hey, all. So, I'm looking at packaging tt-rss - an RSS reader implemented as a PHP webapp - for Fedora, since I run it on my own server. It became rapidly clear that it's a landmine of bundled PHP libraries and snippets and uncertain licensing. I'm unsure which of the things it bundles would be likely to qualify as copylibs, and also a few of the things it bundles seem to raise wider questions, so I thought I'd post my 'deps list' here and raise some of the issues: * dojo/dijit - F/OSS, packaged * simplepie - F/OSS, packaged * CheckBoxTree.js - requires formal license, unpackaged - http://www.thejekels.com/blog/dojo/dijit-tree-with-multi-state-checkboxes/c… . not entirely sure whether this would count as a copylib. * htmlpurifier - F/OSS, unpackaged but its PEAR channel is packaged as php-channel-htmlpurifier, review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542045 * iui - F/OSS, unpackaged - https://code.google.com/p/iui/ * MiniTemplator - F/OSS, unpackaged - http://www.source-code.biz/MiniTemplator/ * phpmailer - F/OSS, packaged * position.js - comprises http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/835 and http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/836 - unlicensed, author contacted - these are probably copylibs? * prototypejs - F/OSS, unpackaged, already embedded in many other packages - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523277 * php-pubsubhubbub - F/OSS, unpackaged: https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub/ (was https://code.google.com/p/pubsubhubbub-php/ , merged into upstream) * scriptaculous - F/OSS, mostly unpackaged, but part of http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Scriptaculous , which is a python wrapper with old versions of scriptaculous and prototype embedded in it * sphinxapi.php - F/OSS, packaged (sphinx-php) * tmhoauth - F/OSS, unpackaged - https://github.com/themattharris/tmhOAuth * xsl_mop-up.js - public domain, unpackaged - http://www.fadshop.net/xsl_mop-up.js but link is dead, ref https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98168 . probably a copylib So the major issues that come up: prototypejs seems to be embedded into an awful lot of Fedora packages, if you look at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523277 as a reference. mediatomb has a copy, wordpress has a copy, python-webhelpers has a copy (actually it seems it's not there any more), python-Scriptaculous has a copy, asterisk has a copy. Isn't this a major issue? Should I file a bug for this and try to split prototypejs out into a single package which all those other packages could depend on, or am I missing something? Has it been declared a copylib? wordpress review request does not appear to have dealt with it, stating "* no shared libraries are present: okay" - I don't know if it was missed, or wasn't present in wordpress at the time of review. mediatomb review similarly didn't catch it. python-Scriptaculous seems to be a python (TurboGears) wrapper for scriptaculous, and it has scriptaculous and prototypejs embedded in it. the review request doesn't seem to have dealt with this at all, it simply states "+ no headers or static libraries.", which seems to be, well, a bit of a porky. =) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508510 . should I raise this as a bug, or again, am I missing something? If anyone clueful has thoughts on the prototypejs and python-scriptaculous issues, or on which of the tt-rss deps are likely copylibs and don't need to be packaged separately, that'd be really helpful. thanks! -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net

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Fwd: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 Released
by Reindl Harald 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

this update should be really fast pushed out the demo-exploit brings down a 4x2.50GHz machine with 8 GB RAM in some seconds without having the known workarounds or explicit mod_security-Rules in front -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 Released Datum: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:21:33 -0400 Von: Jim Jagielski <jim(a)jaguNET.com> Antwort an: dev(a)httpd.apache.org An: dev(a)httpd.apache.org Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 Released The Apache Software Foundation and the Apache HTTP Server Project are pleased to announce the release of version 2.2.20 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version of Apache is principally a security and bug fix release: * SECURITY: CVE-2011-3192 (cve.mitre.org) core: Fix handling of byte-range requests to use less memory, to avoid denial of service. If the sum of all ranges in a request is larger than the original file, ignore the ranges and send the complete file. PR 51714. We consider this release to be the best version of Apache available, and encourage users of all prior versions to upgrade. Apache HTTP Server 2.2.20 is available for download from: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi Please see the CHANGES_2.2 file, linked from the download page, for a full list of changes. A condensed list, CHANGES_2.2.20 provides the complete list of changes since 2.2.19. A summary of all of the security vulnerabilities addressed in this and earlier releases is available: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html This release includes the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) version 1.4.5 and APR Utility Library (APR-util) version 1.3.12, bundled with the tar and zip distributions. The APR libraries libapr and libaprutil (and on Win32, libapriconv version 1.2.1) must all be updated to ensure binary compatibility and address many known security and platform bugs. Apache 2.2 offers numerous enhancements, improvements, and performance boosts over the 2.0 codebase. For an overview of new features introduced since 2.0 please see: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/new_features_2_2.html This release builds on and extends the Apache 2.0 API. Modules written for Apache 2.0 will need to be recompiled in order to run with Apache 2.2, and require minimal or no source code changes. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/VERSIONING When upgrading or installing this version of Apache, please bear in mind that if you intend to use Apache with one of the threaded MPMs (other than the Prefork MPM), you must ensure that any modules you will be using (and the libraries they depend on) are thread-safe. -- Mit besten Grüßen, Reindl Harald the lounge interactive design GmbH A-1060 Vienna, Hofmühlgasse 17 CTO / software-development / cms-solutions p: +43 (1) 595 3999 33, m: +43 (676) 40 221 40 icq: 154546673, http://www.thelounge.net/ http://www.thelounge.net/signature.asc.what.htm

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What's the best way to compare dotted version strings from a script?
by David Howells 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Is there a program or script installed/installable by Fedora that can be used to compare dotted version strings (eg. "1.5.2") from a shell script? David

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kde-settings License now MIT
by Kevin Kofler 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Hi, Until today, kde-settings' License tag was declared as "Public Domain". This made sense when all it contained was configuration settings such as foo=false, which are clearly not a form of creative expression, but these days kde-settings is growing some code snippets, e.g.: * RPM dependency extractors * possibly a Plasma initialization script Those code snippets are probably copyrightable, and it is not legal for us European contributors to just declare them Public Domain. I have discussed this issue with the other contributors, and we agreed to put kde-settings under the MIT License, in particular this variant: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:MIT#Modern_Style_with_sublicense which is the default license for Code contributions to Fedora, and which is effectively as permissive as Public Domain, but legally sound worldwide. As a result, the License tag in kde-settings-4.7-6.fc17 has changed to: License: MIT Please note that the kde-settings-pulseaudio subpackage is still Public Domain because it contains literally nothing to copyright and license. (It is an empty metapackage.) Kevin Kofler

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