Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Martín Ferrari
On 09/07/15 02:19, Guillem Jover wrote: >> Most programs that are designed to be run as daemons do that work for >> themselves. However, you’ll occasionally run across one that does not. When >> you must run a daemon program that does not properly make itself into a true >> Unix daemon, you ca

Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, I'm wondering about the shared library packaging requirements in Policy for the special case of scientific libraries that are not intended to be used by applications, but are to be used by end-users directly, and that do not have a stable ABI. In particular does splitting out the shared libra

Re: Packaging certain libraries as "end-user software"

2015-07-09 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I'm wondering about the shared library packaging requirements in Policy > for the special case of scientific libraries that are not intended to be > used by applications, but are to be used by end-users directly, What does "t

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which > is something I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that This looks like a job for systemd. -- ciao,

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from md's message of 2015-07-09 10:18:50 -0700: > On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: > > > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you > > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which > > is something I needed only last week. Having sai

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2015-07-09 19:25 GMT+02:00 Clint Byrum : > Excerpts from md's message of 2015-07-09 10:18:50 -0700: >> On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> >> > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >> > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >> > i

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Michael Lustfield
>>> > I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >>> > need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >>> > is something I needed only last week. Having said that, I think that >>> This looks like a job for systemd. >>> >> >> Yes, all problems ar

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:18:50 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >> I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >> need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >> is something I needed only last week. Hav

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 13:10:35 -0500 Michael Lustfield wrote: [...] > Of course, we shouldn't expect everyone to use systemd-run because > that's locking into an init system which should quite obviously be > avoided. That, again. The person who suggested using systemd merely pointed out that the t

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Michael Lustfield
>> Of course, we shouldn't expect everyone to use systemd-run because >> that's locking into an init system which should quite obviously be >> avoided. > > That, again. > > The person who suggested using systemd merely pointed out that the task > of turning a regular process into daemon is triviall

Re: Bug#791857: ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-07-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > On Thu, 9 Jul 2015 19:18:50 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> On Jul 09, Martín Ferrari wrote: >>> I can say that it does: start-stop-daemon misses some functionality you >>> need for programs that don't daemonise and log to stdout/stderr, which >>> is something

Work-needing packages report for Jul 10, 2015

2015-07-09 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 673 (new: 6) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 176 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-09 Thread Susmita/Rajib Bandopadhyay
Dear Sirs, I need this software desperately to be finally free from the strangle-hold of proprietary, closed-source software developers. But I am shocked to find this software being ported into stable packages, while it can do nothing. As soon as it is tried it shuts itself off. I hope the packa

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Susmita/Rajib Bandopadhyay wrote: > But I am shocked to find this software being ported into stable > packages, while it can do nothing. As soon as it is tried it shuts > itself off. The correct way to file a bug report is listed here: https://www.debian.org/Bug