Bug#849625: ITP: engine-mode -- define and query search engines from within Emacs

2016-12-29 Thread Lev Lamberov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Lev Lamberov * Package name: engine-mode Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Harry R. Schwartz * URL : https://github.com/hrs/engine-mode * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Emacs Lisp Description : define and que

Re: unattended-upgrades by default?

2016-12-29 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2016-12-28 at 04:13 +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > On December 27, 2016 11:10:55 PM EST, Adam Borowski > wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 04:04:21AM +, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > > FTR, it's #739636. > > > > > > > > > > Postfix has no way to know it's temporary, so I think a

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 29, Simon Richter wrote: > As long as there is still a way to have working "netstat" and "ifconfig" > commands, that is fine. I do not think that anybody sane wants to remove the package from the archive: the idea is to stop using it in script in other packages since iproute is a) better

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Simon Richter
Hi, On 29.12.2016 12:49, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> As long as there is still a way to have working "netstat" and "ifconfig" >> commands, that is fine. > I do not think that anybody sane wants to remove the package from the > archive: the idea is to stop using it in script in other packages since

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 26, Martín Ferrari wrote: > I am currently the Debian maintainer for net-tools, but note that I have > not forked, nor I am developing net-tools. Upstream got active again, > somehow. Thank you for your clarification. I think that we have a consensus about this: can you switch to optional

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 01:38:48PM +1000, Russell Stuart wrote: > I don't know whether "crap" is the right word, but it is certainly > baggage from a bygone era. "Baggage" here means that if we are nice to > our users (ie, Debian sysadmins), we should not force them to know two > tools. We only h

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >Ifconfig has been deprecated; you should probably use "ip a show >dev lo" instad of the shorter and more convenient "ifconfig lo" ... and often wrong > OK, you can remove the last half, but keep in mind there are plenty of > p

Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-29 Thread Ole Streicher
Hi, the python-numpy package in unstable has an RC bug: https://bugs.debian.org/849196 however, today it migrated to testing, the migration status still says however "valid candidate". I thought that RC bugs would prevent packages from migration -- what is the exception here? Best regards Ole

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-29 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 29/12/16 17:24, Ole Streicher wrote: > Hi, > > the python-numpy package in unstable has an RC bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/849196 > > however, today it migrated to testing, the migration status still says > however "valid candidate". > > I thought that RC bugs would prevent packages from

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-29 Thread Ole Streicher
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort writes: > On 29/12/16 17:24, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the python-numpy package in unstable has an RC bug: >> >> https://bugs.debian.org/849196 >> >> however, today it migrated to testing, the migration status still says >> however "valid candidate". >> >> I thou

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 10:30:26AM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > OK, you can remove the last half, but keep in mind there are plenty of > people who aren't using the exotic features provided by iproute2, and > are very happy using the more convenient and shorter BSD-style > commands. If you're goi

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 12/29/2016 07:04 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > For stretch+1, what I'd like to see is a tool that a) works b) has > output that's nice for a human to read and c) has output that can be > easily processed by programs. None of the current tools comes anywhere > near. Bonus points if the command line

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:17:01PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > In my opinion ip provides all the things you are mentioning - what are > you missing? with -o as option the output is rather easy to parse. I find ip's output hard to read. I have to take time to visually parse it every time, I can't

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 12/29/2016 07:04 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> For stretch+1, what I'd like to see is a tool that a) works b) has >> output that's nice for a human to read and c) has output that can be >> easily processed by programs. None of the current tools comes anywhere >> near. Bo

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Also, this is not at all easy to parse: > > # ip -o address > 1: loinet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\ valid_lft forever > preferred_lft forever > 1: loinet6 ::1/128 scope host \ valid_lft forever preferred_lft > forever > 3:

Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same?

2016-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > I have never managed to work out how to use dcut […] in fewer than > five tries each time I've needed to use it. I'm not sure what it is > with that command, but I find it completely baffling to use correctly. This should be addressed by, at least, improving the ‘dcut(1)’

Re: dput: Call for feedback: What should change? What should stay the same? [and 1 more messages]

2016-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
"Paul R. Tagliamonte" writes: > FWIW, I don't think any of the dput-ng hackers particularly mind if it > changes, changing API could just happen for both together, at the same > time. Or maybe just consolidate :) Much appreciated. Yes, one aspiration I eventually hope to achieve have is to resol

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/29/2016 08:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > It certainly doesn't provide a man page that doesn't start with a BNF > syntax description. The iproute2 documentation is awful. Ack. > Also, this is not at all easy to parse: > > # ip -o address > 1: loinet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\ vali

Specification of FTP upload queue management commands

2016-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
Afif Elghraoui writes: > Hi, Ben, Thanks for the feedback. One specific suggestion appears to already have a bug report; I'm redirecting this sub-thread there. > على الثلاثاء 27 كانون الأول 2016 ‫20:31، كتب Ben Finney: > > The ‘dput-ng’ package is one alternative that is sometimes suggested > >

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Seiler writes: > On 12/29/2016 08:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> ip address also has one of the worst output UI decisions I've ever seen, >> namely this line: >> >> inet 192.168.0.195/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlan0 >> >> specifically "192.168.0.195/24", which is no

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russ Allbery, on Thu 29 Dec 2016 12:24:28 -0800, wrote: > >> specifically "192.168.0.195/24", which is notation (IIRC) invented by this > >> command, > > It's possible that some other tool has abused CIDR notation in this way, > but ip is still the only place I ever see it. It's definitely not co

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 décembre 2016 12:24 -0800, Russ Allbery  : > No, I'm not talking about CIDR notation, which of course is long-standing > and familiar. I'm talking about randomly appending a CIDR suffix to > something that is obviously *not* the base for that CIDR block. > > In other words, 192.168.0.0/24 i

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > It's possible that some other tool has abused CIDR notation in this way, > but ip is still the only place I ever see it. It's definitely not common. I picked a few arbitrary networking platforms: From http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/software/junos-es/junos-es93/junos-es-jseri

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Russ Allbery] > ip address also has one of the worst output UI decisions I've ever seen, > namely this line: > > inet 192.168.0.195/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlan0 > > specifically "192.168.0.195/24", which is notation (IIRC) invented by this > command, used nowhere else in

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Russ Allbery >> It's possible that some other tool has abused CIDR notation in this way, >> but ip is still the only place I ever see it. It's definitely not common. > I picked a few arbitrary networking platforms: Meh. Okay, thanks, I'm apparently just not well-

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Bjørn Mork writes: > I believe that is a mis-interpretation of that RFC. The examples are > all network addresses, but I don't think there is anything there that > restricts the CIDR notation only to that class of IPv4 addresses. > FWIW, the notation is much older and has been used for IPv4 add

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Bjørn Mork
Russ Allbery writes: > Christian Seiler writes: >> On 12/29/2016 08:38 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> ip address also has one of the worst output UI decisions I've ever seen, >>> namely this line: >>> >>> inet 192.168.0.195/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global dynamic wlan0 >>> >>> specifically

Re: Migration despite an RC bug?

2016-12-29 Thread Christoph Biedl
Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote... > Unforunately, the BTS exported a broken/incomplete RC bug list, and britney > used > that and didn't see that some packages had an RC bug, so it allowed them to > migrate. Ouch, that's quite a nightmare. While I'm curious to learn how this happened and what is

Re: compression support in kmod

2016-12-29 Thread Christoph Biedl
Eduard Bloch wrote... > I volunteer as test subject for that experiment. I would appreciate even > small steps, considering the current laptop in front of me with average > magnetic HDD. Over a minute boot time, which is insane and IMHO mostly > caused by the storm of IO operations required nowada

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Wookey
On 2016-12-29 11:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Bernd Zeimetz writes: > > On 12/29/2016 07:04 PM, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > Also, this is not at all easy to parse: > > # ip -o address > 1: loinet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\ valid_lft forever > preferred_lft forever > 1: loinet6 ::

Re: Specification of FTP upload queue management commands

2016-12-29 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 30 Dec 2016 06:49:07 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > I always have to use dput-ng in order to be able to use the dcut dm > > […] command and grant DMs upload permissions. > > There is not ‘dm’ command is not mentioned at the upload queue Read Me > document ftp://ftp.upload.debian.org/pub/Upl

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russell Stuart
On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 11:38 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > It certainly doesn't provide a man page that doesn't start with a BNF > syntax description.  The iproute2 documentation is awful. > > Also, this is not at all easy to parse: > > # ip -o address > 1: loinet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo\ vali

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Russell Stuart writes: > To me this thread looks like a bunch of old men grumbling that the > young'ins have taken over what they created and turned the tools they > were comfortable with into something unrecognisable. It's true - they > did do that, and it's true it was unnecessary. They could

Bug#849703: ITP: ansible-doc -- Documentation for Ansible

2016-12-29 Thread Toni Mueller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toni Mueller * Package name: ansible-doc Version : 2.2.0.0-1 Upstream Author : RedHat * URL : http://www.ansible.com/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: HTML, JavaScript Description : Documentation for Ansible

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 09:01:51PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > OK, you can remove the last half, but keep in mind there are plenty of > > people who aren't using the exotic features provided by iproute2 > ... like two IPs on one iface. Actually, that is only a problem if you re-use label

Bug#849716: ITP: weresync -- A program to easily clone linux drives incrementally.

2016-12-29 Thread Daniel Manila
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Manila * Package name: weresync Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Daniel Manila * URL : https://github.com/DonyorM/weresync * License : Apache2 Programming Lang: Python3 Description : A program to easily cl

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 décembre 2016 09:47 +1000, Russell Stuart  : > [0] Now I've started, the Linux kernel's networking stack is a mess. > From the outside it looks like a mob of warning tribes, each  > developing with their own way of doing the same thing. To people  > not familiar with it this wil

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 29 décembre 2016 23:09 GMT, Wookey  : > I still don't know what a qdisc is or a default group, but it's a lot > easier to find things I do recognise. Before this discussion I just > saw it as a mysterious jumble of 10 things (after a set of things in > CAPITALS that were somewhat mysterious too

Allow mirroring new -dbgsym packages?

2016-12-29 Thread Boyuan Yang
Hello all, I am wondering if it is possible for a downstream mirror site to mirror files in the debian-debug repository. [1] (of course, via rsync not http) I searched the Internet but could not find any instruction or explanation about mirroring that repo. A quick access to -dbgsym packages ma

Re: Can we kill net-tools, please?

2016-12-29 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 11:09:35PM +, Wookey wrote: > Yeah I think that mess is why I've never felt any need to move away > from ifconfig. I ran ip something a few times, went 'huh?' at the cryptic > output and stayed with the rather more civilised /sbin/ifconfig. > > So it seem that the outpu