Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 31 mars 2012 à 00:18 +0200, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > For Linux? Not particularly. > > If it's *not* for solving everyone's use case, then it's not good for > making it a default init implementation. Because it’s a well-known fact that sysvinit solves everyone’s use case. -- .'

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 30 mars 2012 à 20:49 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > > What you think about extending this GSoC project to also implement the > > translation from systemd unit files to upstart ones? it is worth ? [snip] > This means I'm not going to invest time in it, but if somebody shows up > wi

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 30 mars 2012 à 22:12 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > Gnome-desktop, not gnome. Gnome-desktop would depend on base-deskop and > gnome and maybe a few more gnome-ish things that aren't in gnome. I’d appreciate if you could stop beating a horse that’s been dead since before the l

Bug#666495: ITP: plasma-widget-menubar -- plasma widget to display a global menubar

2012-03-31 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ritesh Raj Sarraf * Package name: plasma-widget-menubar Version : 0.1.16 Upstream Author : Aurélien Gâteau * URL : https://launchpad.net/plasma-widget-menubar * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : p

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-31 Thread Peter Miller
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 16:24 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 20:02 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > > I'm looking for a Standard C Library compliance test suite. I'd prefer > > an open source one, preferably with a license more liberal than GPL, > > e.g. BSD or MIT, which is why I ca

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Josselin Mouette writes: > I’ve not seen many people interested specifically in upstart in this > discussion, apart from Canonical employees. When the "People's Front of systemd" have met the "Campaign for a Free sysvinit" on the field of debian-devel, and there are noone left save a few penguin

Bug#666527: ITP: ssb-sprom -- A tool for modification of the Broadcom Sonics Silicon Backplane SPROM

2012-03-31 Thread Dominik George
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dominik George -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: ssb-sprom Version : 20120331 Upstream Author : Michael Buesch * URL : http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 * License : GPL-2

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-31 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le vendredi 30 mars 2012 à 22:12 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : >> Gnome-desktop, not gnome. Gnome-desktop would depend on base-deskop and >> gnome and maybe a few more gnome-ish things that aren't in gnome. > > I’d appreciate if you could stop beating a hor

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 31 mars 2012 à 17:10 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > So your answere to "There is no garphical package manager being > installed for the desktop" is "there is no problem"? It’s the KDE team’s problem. If they feel like a low-lever package manager is not necessary for their deskt

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/30/2012 09:46 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > This can be the solution we are looking to tie together the different > init systems. > Hi, Others have already expressed their view that using a *new* format for the init scripts isn't something they want. I wouldn't like to have to u

Bug#666541: [Wish] package OpenSearch descriptions for reuse by all browsers

2012-03-31 Thread Thomas Koch
Package: general Severity: wishlist -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I'd like to see a package like "opensearch-descriptions" in Debian containing a comprehensive database of opensearch description documents. Browser packages should depend on this package to provide a consistent se

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 31/03/12 17:40, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/30/2012 09:46 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> This can be the solution we are looking to tie together the different >> init systems. >> > Hi, > > Others have already expressed their view that using a *new* format > for the init scripts i

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Goirand] > By the way, does anyone know a way to count the numbers of init > script with have archive wide? It'd be nice to know how much work it > would be to rewrite absolutely all init.d scripts, and how many > source package this involves. I did a count of binary packages with init.d

Bug#666546: ITP: fonts-cabin -- humanist sans serif font

2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernhard Reiter * Package name: fonts-cabin Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Pablo Impallari * URL : http://impallari.com/cabin * License : OFL 1.1 Description : humanist sans serif font -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-31 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hi! As PackageKit maintainer, I would like to say that we have GNOME-PackageKit as high-lever package manager and Synaptic as low-level PM for GNOME, and that Apper as a high-level package manager is available on KDE. So, I don't really see a problem with package-managers itself here, you would jus

Bug#666553: ITP: fonts-dosis -- very simple, rounded, sans serif font family

2012-03-31 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernhard Reiter * Package name: fonts-dosis Version : 1.7 Upstream Author : Pablo Impallari * URL : http://impallari.com/dosis * License : OFL 1.1 Description : very simple, rounded, sans serif font family --

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > Samuel Thibault writes: > > It is apparently trying to be a *Linux* standard, being adopted by all > > distributions. > > That's not at all clear to me. It seems more to be trying to be a good > init system used by Fedora, and beyond that it's left to people to make up > th

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > I’ve not seen many people interested specifically in upstart in this > discussion, apart from Canonical employees. For the record, I'm interested specifically in upstart because I think that alignment with Ubuntu is a major win for Debian in terms of the ecosystem and

Re: Standard C Library complance test suite

2012-03-31 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Oh sorry. I saw BSD MIT not glibc. And I've never heard a complaint about GPL. Kernigan / Ritche wrote C I can't think you'd ever erase that however :) Pascal might be more! While cygwin may have a "suite" they are a private company I wouldn't bet to dl and use it without a lawyer reading a

Bugs for packages which don't exist anymore / missing maintainer

2012-03-31 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Hello, I don't know if there's a more appropriate place to ask for this, if so please tell me. While looking for a bug report that I knew that existed but that I couln't find, I noticed that the bug was assigned to libwhatever-SOVERSION_OLD, and that the current package in the archive contains li