Re: Bug#742836: syslinux: The Debian package of syslinux 6 breaks compatibility by gratuitously moving files around

2014-03-28 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Control: reopen -1 On Fri, 28 Mar 2014, Daniel Baumann wrote: > On 03/27/2014 10:49 PM, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > > The experimental packages of syslinux move files around and thus breaks > > all syslinux users that rely on the default (upstream defined) location of > > the syslinux provided files.

Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Grant
Hi! I am the developer of netscript-2.4, an alternative network configuration system for Debian written in /bin/bash - quite old. First of all, though, my stuff is not the glorious gloopiest best. I have split the iptables stuff out to netscript-ipfilter, better than iptables-persistent I must

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:23:15 +1300 Matt Grant wrote: > I KNOW MY STUFF COULD/SHOULD BE BETTER! Maybe I should reimplement a > lot of it using only what is provided by perl-base and /bin/sh, but > lets get some sense here please. Thanks for the rant, it's been considered. I hope you feel

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: > On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman wrote: > [...] > > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind > > API and its single implementation. Perhaps a subset of the logind API for > > use by desktop envi

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Cameron Norman
El Fri, 28 de Mar 2014 a las 1:19 AM, Olav Vitters escribió: On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 11:38:40AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: On 26 March 2014 10:13, Cameron Norman wrote: [...] > That is pretty much impossible, according to the developers of the logind > API and its single implementation.

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 mars 2014 à 20:23 +1300, Matt Grant a écrit : > I sincerely would like to work with the ifupdown maintainer and > systemd/udev crew to work all this out. A basic level/interface of > functionality for replaceable network configuration packages would be > nice. Alternatively, we co

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. > It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such problems. Or systemd-networkd. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-re

Bug#742864: ITP: openjdk-8 -- OpenJDK 8 - Open source implementation of the Java Platform Standard Edition 8

2014-03-28 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: openjdk-8 Version : 8u0~b132 Upstream Author : Oracle Corporation * URL : http://openjdk.java.net * License : GPL-2 with Classpath Exception Programming Lang: Java, C++ Description :

systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Sebastian Feld
Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: SystemD violates a couple of patents SUN Microsystems filed for their SMF system used in Solaris. Now, who is going to pay the patent and license fees for each Debian instal

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Grant
Hi Andrew, I am willing to co-maintain it with you and evolve it. Previously I have worked professionally as a router programmer, and have contributed to Quagga/Zebra OSPF. > Please also note that's there's no point in rewriting ifupdown from > scratch to provide the same interface; the existing

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Adrien CLERC
Le 28/03/2014 11:40, Sebastian Feld a écrit : > Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to > licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: > > SystemD violates a couple of patents SUN Microsystems filed for their > SMF system used in Solaris. > > Now, who is going

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Paul Wise debian.org> writes: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. > > It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such problems. > > Or systemd-networkd. I surely hope the both of you are kidding. bye,

Re: How to create a debian x32 image?

2014-03-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Adam Borowski angband.pl> writes: > You don't need to jump through those multistrap hoops anymore. You need to > recompile the kernel with CONFIG_X86_X32=y, but after that you can use any Could this *please* become the default in linux-image-3.14-1-amd64? Thanks, //mirabilos, eagerly awaiting

Re: dist-upgrade strangeness: dependencies not deconfigured

2014-03-28 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Norbert Preining logic.at> writes: > In the trigger program we already check that texlive base is in proper > state (ii in dpkg listing), but that seems not to be enough. ISTR reading somewhere that Depends do not mean that the dependency is always configured before the package depending on it i

Re: How to create a debian x32 image?

2014-03-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Thorsten Glaser (2014-03-28 12:47:26) > Adam Borowski angband.pl> writes: > >> You don't need to jump through those multistrap hoops anymore. You >> need to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_X86_X32=y, but after that >> you can use any > > Could this *please* become the default in linux-

Re: How to create a debian x32 image?

2014-03-28 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 11:47 +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Adam Borowski angband.pl> writes: > > > You don't need to jump through those multistrap hoops anymore. You need > to > > recompile the kernel with CONFIG_X86_X32=y, but after that you can use any > > Could this *please* become the defa

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 28/03/2014 11:40, Sebastian Feld a écrit : > Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to > licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: Patent infringement claims by big companies are often FUD. The right channel if you really want to discuss this (rather tha

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 mars 2014 à 11:45 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > Paul Wise debian.org> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. > > > It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such proble

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Philip Hands
Sebastian Feld writes: > Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to > licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: Have you read this: https://www.debian.org/legal/patent in particular, point 3. Having read that, I would suggest that either: your conc

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2014-03-28, Sebastian Feld wrote: > Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to > licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: Citation needed. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Wookey
+++ Adrien CLERC [2014-03-28 12:17 +0100]: > No one in Europe. There's no such thing as software patent here. Yet. I > hope this will stay forever. > (And yes, maybe I'm wrong, but please enlighten me!) You are wrong. This is a common misconception, amongst geeks, but there are thousands of softw

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Alastair McKinstry
On 28/03/2014 12:18, Wookey wrote: > +++ Adrien CLERC [2014-03-28 12:17 +0100]: > >> No one in Europe. There's no such thing as software patent here. Yet. I >> hope this will stay forever. >> (And yes, maybe I'm wrong, but please enlighten me!) > You are wrong. This is a common misconception, amon

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Wookey
+++ Alastair McKinstry [2014-03-28 12:45 +]: > > > Software patents in Europe is a mess: the understanding I have from IP > lawyers > is that > (1) software patents have no legal standing in Europe. > (2) The EPO continues to issue them. > > That is, people get "European Software Patents" on

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Kevin Toppins
On 28 Mar 2014 03:40, Olav Vitters wrote: [...] > > I can tell you right now, it is *vastly more difficult* to try to > > adapt programs modified to work with systemd in their current state, > > than it is to *revert* those programs to their pre-systemd state. > > You're so certain while so utterly

Re: identifying unused manually installed packages

2014-03-28 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:05:49 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Sven Bartscher wrote: > > > Also I'm not really sure if this is even a good idea, or if there is > > maybe another program already present which does already identify > > unused, manually installed packages an

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise writes: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. >> It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such problems. > Or systemd-networkd. systemd-networkd is not even close to mature yet. If someone wante

Bug#742899: ITP: cppad -- Automatic Differentiation (AD) of C++ algorithms

2014-03-28 Thread Miles Lubin
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miles Lubin * Package name: cppad Version : 20140301 Upstream Author : Bradley M. Bell * URL : https://projects.coin-or.org/CppAD/ * License : GPL-3 and EPL (dual licensed) Programming Lang: C++ Description : Aut

Re: systemd patent fees - who pays?

2014-03-28 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 11:40 +0100, Sebastian Feld wrote: > Now that Redhat and Suse have been contacted by ORACLE regarding to > licensing the SMF patents a question arises for Debian: > > SystemD violates a couple of patents SUN Microsystems filed for their > SMF system used in Solaris. > > Now,

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 28 mars 2014 à 11:55 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > I realize that doing that well is not horribly challenging, but that is > the most common server use case (and even desktop), and ifupdown does it > quite well. Come on. We all use ifupdown on our servers just because it is the defau

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > overbroad, as they suggest that as a project we will never take a stand for > an

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:49:44PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 07:41:50PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > > overbroad, as the

Bug#742911: ITP: python-cryptography-vectors -- Test vectors for python-cryptography

2014-03-28 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: python-cryptography-vectors Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Cryptography developers * URL : https://cryptography.io/ * License : Various Programming Lang: None Description : Test

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le vendredi 28 mars 2014 à 11:55 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : >> I realize that doing that well is not horribly challenging, but that is >> the most common server use case (and even desktop), and ifupdown does >> it quite well. > Come on. We all use ifupdown on our se

Re: FTPMaster position statement about package contents

2014-03-28 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13529 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can understand the ftp team's desire to sidestep any moral questions here, > but in the process I think your guidelines have wound up vague and > overbroad, as they suggest that as a project we will never take a stand for > anything but only do what's

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Grant
Hi! Actually, I would love to cleanly modify ifupdown with a lot of the experience I have gained from netscript, and working on actual routers. Making it not so onerous would not be that much work, and it would have far better behaviour once improvements are made. I am putting myself forward for

Re: stop posting useless cruft and get to work (systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it)

2014-03-28 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:08:54AM -0500, Kevin Toppins wrote: > On 28 Mar 2014 03:40, Olav Vitters wrote: > [...] > > > I can tell you right now, it is *vastly more difficult* to try to > > > adapt programs modified to work with systemd in their current state, > > > than it is to *revert* those pr

Re: Ifupdown dysfunctional, is a Provides: interface possible please?

2014-03-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 mar 14, 17:39:39, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Alternatively, we could make NetworkManager the default. > > It is already here, it works, and it doesn’t have such problems. > > Or systemd-networkd. Or connman. Kind regards, Andrei -