Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze and possible mass bug filing
On 08/04/2010 14:33, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Hm, making git-core a dummy/transitional package, which pulls the "git" >> package >> on upgrades sounds like a better idea to me. >> Otherwise git won't be updated when going from lenny to squeeze. > > Gerrit Pape implemented what I think is a nicer method: git-core is a > disappearing transitional package. On upgrades, it pulls in git and > then disappears (since git takes over all its files). It is a super > neat trick, due to Daniel Kobras, I think [1]. > > Just one problem: APT does not support that at the moment. Oops. I'm not sure that this solution solves the problem of 'auto' and 'manual' installed packages. > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg00014.html > http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package Regards Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial packages: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbed749.6080...@free.fr
taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile
Hi, I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via volatile. Reason: Users of taxbird have to comply with certain legal requirements, and eg. Lenny's version of taxbird is unfit to create tax reports for this year, while the version in Testing pulls in a significant number of other (Gnome?) stuff, which I find undesirable. I would therefore like to see taxbird updates via volatile, so that users of Stable can actually use it during the lifetime of the release. FWIW, I've created a (rough) backport that's available from my p.d.o homepage. Kind regards, --Toni++ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409080556.29077.qm...@oak.oeko.net
Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?
Package: bash Version: 4.0-7 Severity: serious Having just had an argument on IRC about /bin/sh diversions, it appears that the situation in Sid has changed again since I last looked at it. As I understood the discussions at Debconf last year and on this list, dash is now essential and the default /bin/sh. Bash is still essential and the default interactive shell. It can optionally (based on a debconf question at install time, or some other criteria on upgrades) provide /bin/sh should people want the old behaviour. I've been happily using dash for system shell scripts and bash interactively for a while and have been looking forward to that being the default. Having inspected an up-to-date sid chroot, it would appear that both bash and dash are now essential and bash is diverting /bin/sh to itself with /bin/sh.distrib pointing to dash. No amount of dpkg-reconfigure -plow gave me the option to change it. This seems like a regression which kinda makes all the effort on dash and bashims a little pointless.. It looks like this was introduced in 4.0-7 which fixes #546516. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?
On Fri Apr 09 10:52, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Having just had an argument on IRC about /bin/sh diversions, it appears that > the situation in Sid has changed again since I last looked at it. Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#577068: Acknowledgement (Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?)
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Bug#577068 acknowledged by developer (close)
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Bug#577087: ITP: spim -- MIPS R2000/R3000 emulator
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jean-Christophe Dubacq" Owner: "Jean-Christophe Dubacq" This package previously existed in Debian/non-free, but was removed due to lack of maintainership and being non-free. Since I use this for teaching, and that the license changed to BSD (except for one documentation file with no source), I am willing to package and maintain it (with a sponsor). A (lintian-clean) preliminary package is available at http://debian.lipn.fr/html/package.spim.html Since this package has been maintained in Ubuntu, I intend to contact the Ubuntu maintainer and merge her changes if they fit (such as a .desktop file, which I deemed at first unnecessary). * Package name: spim Version : 8.0 Upstream Author : James R. Larus * URL : http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~larus/SPIM/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : MIPS R2000/R3000 emulator Emulates a MIPS R2000/R3000 processor in software. Useful for students who are taught MIPS R2000/R3000 assembly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409135223.16930.78463.report...@oberon.localnet
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Apr 08, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I also don't really see the issues with bindv6only=0. If you listen on > all interfaces, it makes is easier. If you only listen on specific > interfaces, it's not in the way. This is not true, the big problem with bindv6only=0 is that you will get IPv4 connections mapped in IPv6 so applications need to convert the addresses everywhere (logs, ACLs processing, etc). > Just let any application which cannot cope with it install another file > in /etc that sets it back to 0. Let's have a configuration file war :-( I am not aware of any Debian package which still has not been fixed. I will be happy to re-evaluate this at the time of the freeze if it will be determined that setting bindv6only=1 by default will have a noticeable impact on the general system usability. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Friday 09 April 2010 16:14:57 Marco d'Itri wrote: > I will be happy to re-evaluate this at the time of the freeze if it will > be determined that setting bindv6only=1 by default will have a > noticeable impact on the general system usability. Have you considered that some people might want to use software that has not been patched for debian? And some people might want to develop software. For those categories (and of course don't expect them to read some lost debian documentation page, or even worst, the mailing list) debian would just be a distribution that for some mysterious reason, doesn't work as it should. Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004091825.11813.tipos...@tiscali.it
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 16:14:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I am not aware of any Debian package which still has not been fixed. > xdmcp is still broken in at least gdm and xdm (I've got patches for both, but they're not in sid). Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#577107: ITP: gunicorn -- Event-based HTTP/WSGI server
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Chris Lamb
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name: gunicorn
Upstream Author : Benoit Chesneau
* URL : http://www.gunicorn.org/
* License : MIT
Programming Lang: Python
Description : Event-based HTTP/WSGI server
Green Unicorn (gunicorn) is an HTTP/WSGI server designed to serve fast
clients or sleepy applications. That is to say; behind a buffering
front-end server such as nginx or lighttpd.
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* Optional support for Eventlet and Gevent to provide asynchronous
long-polling ("Comet") connections.
* Process management: Gunicorn reaps and restarts workers that die.
* Easy integration with Django and Paster compatible applications
(Pylons, TurboGears 2,etc
* Load balancing via pre-fork and a shared socket
* Graceful worker process restarts
* Upgrading without losing connections
* Decode chunked transfers on-the-fly, allowing upload progress
notifications or stream-based protocols over HTTP
Regards,
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Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Apr 09, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > I will be happy to re-evaluate this at the time of the freeze if it will > > be determined that setting bindv6only=1 by default will have a > > noticeable impact on the general system usability. > Have you considered that some people might want to use software that has not > been patched for debian? Yes, impact on third-party software will be considered as well. > And some people might want to develop software. They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile
On 09/04/10 10:05, Toni Mueller wrote: > I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via > volatile. Why do you mail -devel and not taxb...@p.d.o or the maintainer or the bts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bbf6443.1030...@debian.org
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:29:40 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Apr 09, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> And some people might want to develop software. >They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. Reality Check, Please. They will happily switch to CentOS or Windows instead since they won't understand what's going on. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! - Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1o0inl-0008ra...@swivel.zugschlus.de
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
Am Freitag 09 April 2010 18:29:40 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. Actually not. They'll just assume that binding the port first for IPv4, then for IPv6 will work. Eventually, they'll be surprised that it fails elsewhere (notably those that stick to the _documented_ default value). As already noted, there are already systems with another default but with a specific reason for such a choice. I don't see such a reason for Debian (a bug in kfreebsd isn't one). HS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004092004.02096.p...@hendrik-sattler.de
Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0
On Friday 09 April 2010 18:29:40 Marco d'Itri wrote: > They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. My little real life example: I tried to compile weborf on opensolaris, and i was expecting it to compile and work without any problem, because i was only using POSIX calls. It wasn't so easy: because of a bug in their .h files, i had to rearrange the includes to make it compile. True, now my software is more portable, but since i've also find out that the problem with the header files was known to them and they didn't fix it in a long while, i also don't recommend to anyone to use opensolaris. Bye -- Salvo Tomaselli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004092026.21088.tipos...@tiscali.it
Re: Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?
> Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. So, what's the matter? Please enlighten us all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1270838419.19094.0.ca...@beppo
Re: Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:40:19PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. > > So, what's the matter? Please enlighten us all! mjj29 was using a pbuilder chroot environment. pbuilder sets DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive so that you never have to answer any questions when it installs build-dependencies. This also applies when you use 'pbuilder login', and that is why he did not see the debconf questions he was expecting. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409192603.gg16...@decadent.org.uk
Bug#577124: ITP: xen-unmodified-drivers -- Kernel drivers for paravirt-on-hvm devices
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "C.J. Adams-Collier" Owner: "C.J. Adams-Collier" * Package name: xen-unmodified-drivers Version : 3.4.3 Upstream Author : Xen developers * URL : http://www.xen.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Kernel drivers for paravirt-on-hvm devices Drivers for installation on HVM guests which provide access to the PV devices, including netfront, blkfront and scsifront -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409200918.25659.9504.report...@dev0
Bug#577130: ITP: libcrystalhd2 -- Library for Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder cards
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chase Douglas * Package name: libcrystalhd2 Version : git.20100408 Upstream Author : Jarod Wilson * URL : http://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git/ * License : LGPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : Library for Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder cards The libcrystalhd library provides userspace access to Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder devices. The device supports hardware decoding of MPEG-2, h.264 and VC1 video codecs, up to 1080p at 40fps. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100409190338.5198.2498.report...@cndougla-ubuntu
