Re: DEP-5 Copyright Question

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Elías Alejandro wrote: > > > > You mention that the upstream author *transformed* the image. > > Mechanical > > > > transformations (such as compilation of source code) do not normally > > have > > > > copyright associated with them, so the copyright of ca

Re: DEP-5 Copyright Question

2011-07-22 Thread Elías Alejandro
> > > You mention that the upstream author *transformed* the image. > Mechanical > > > transformations (such as compilation of source code) do not normally > have > > > copyright associated with them, so the copyright of cat.pzl would > probably > > > be the same as for cat.jpg. > > > > > yes, wou

Re: Bug#635115: ITP: blktap -- Xen API blktap shared library

2011-07-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-07-22, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Goirand > > * Package name: blktap > Version : 1.0.0 > Upstream Author : http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html > * URL : http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html > * License

Re: DEP-5 Copyright Question

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:42:20AM -0500, Elías Alejandro wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:47:25AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > > debian/copyright should list the names of the actual copyright holders of > > the work. debian-devel is not a great resource for helping you figure out > > who tho

Bug#635115: ITP: blktap -- Xen API blktap shared library

2011-07-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: blktap Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html * URL : http://www.xen.org/products/cloudxen.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description :

Making daemons compatible with systemd [was: Minimal init]

2011-07-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> From what I've seen in Lennart's posts, adding systemd support doesn't > seem to be too complicated. No. No changes at all are necessary to be compatible with systemd. This is a very impressive feature of systemd; at the same time, this is what complicates systemd, and creates a dependency on c

Re: Making daemons compatible with systemd [was: Minimal init]

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> From what I've seen in Lennart's posts, adding systemd support doesn't >> seem to be too complicated. > > No.  No changes at all are necessary to be compatible with systemd. > This is a very impressive feature of systemd; at the same ti

Re: help with git

2011-07-22 Thread Julien Valroff
Le jeudi 21 juil. 2011 à 19:39:00 (+0200 CEST), Simon McVittie a écrit : > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 at 19:16:50 +0200, Julien Valroff wrote: > > When running this type of config, how do you avoid pushing the upstream > > tags to the debian repository? > > To push individual tags, use "git push origin 1

Re: Minimal init

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >>>No, I don't think so.  If these external tools double fork then they >>>are just wrong. > >> Double Forking has been the right way to do it for decades. > > It has been the default way for most daemons, granted.  (Getty is > a notable

Re: DEP-5 Copyright Question

2011-07-22 Thread Elías Alejandro
Hi Steve, On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 07:47:25AM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote: > debian/copyright should list the names of the actual copyright holders of > the work. debian-devel is not a great resource for helping you figure out > who those copyright holders are, but if the upstream author has alrea

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 11:32 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : > So let systemd be part of Debian, but not as default init system. Maybe > it can be used in about five years when all third party software is > supporting it. Seriously, I suggest that you document yourself instead of writing

Re: gpfs packages for a migration to Debian ?

2011-07-22 Thread Liang Guo
2011/7/22 Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel : > Hello, > > I hope that this mailing list is the right one for that kind of questions. > > I am investigating the availability of packages for de IBM General > Parallel File System (GPFS) [1] for Debian. It seems that this kind of > distributed filesystem is of

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Guus Sliepen writes: > I would hardly call that a suitable comparison. How hard can it be to > support both sysvinit and systemd? For everything in Debian? Unless you're willing to write init scripts and cripple systemd by making it use init scripts, it's a huge pain, since you have to maintain

Re: Minimal init

2011-07-22 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>>No, I don't think so. If these external tools double fork then they >>are just wrong. > Double Forking has been the right way to do it for decades. It has been the default way for most daemons, granted. (Getty is a notable exception.) > Demanding from upstreams that they change their softwar

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.07.2011 16:59, schrieb Stephan Seitz: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> The configuration file for rsyslog is /etc/rsyslog.conf resp. >> /etc/rsyslog.d > > Configuration file for the daemon is /etc/default/rsyslog: The canonical configuration file for the

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:49:28PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: The configuration file for rsyslog is /etc/rsyslog.conf resp. /etc/rsyslog.d Configuration file for the daemon is /etc/default/rsyslog: # Options for rsyslogd # -m 0 disables ‚MARK’ messages (deprecated, only used in compat mode #

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.07.2011 16:38, schrieb Stephan Seitz: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:24:33PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> We already have systemd in unstable (and soon testing) and even >> a handful of packages shipping native systemd service files. The most >> prominent ones are probably rsyslog, dbus, ud

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 04:24:33PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: We already have systemd in unstable (and soon testing) and even a handful of packages shipping native systemd service files. The most prominent ones are probably rsyslog, dbus, udev and network-manager. Indeed, rsyslog has a servic

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.07.2011 15:53, schrieb Stephan Seitz: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> (Ignoring the kFreeBSD side of things for a bit): Why? As others have >> pointed out, systemd uses sysvinit scripts just fine. > > Well, then why don’t we put systemd in testing as al

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.07.2011 15:32, schrieb Russell Coker: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> Another would be to ship three systemd units, one being «smtp», one >> being «queue runner» a third being «smtp+queue runner» or just generate >> the .service file dynamically based on what the admin confi

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | Also, if systemd would use init scripts just fine, then one could > | argue to just use SysV init scripts for everything, since then there > | is no extra effort involved and people can easily swap init systems. > > You can, sure, but if we accept t

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: (Ignoring the kFreeBSD side of things for a bit): Why? As others have pointed out, systemd uses sysvinit scripts just fine. Well, then why don’t we put systemd in testing as alternate init system and release it as alternate init

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Guus Sliepen | On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | | > | How hard can it be to | > | support both sysvinit and systemd? It's just two little files to | > | maintain instead of one. We also have/had both .menu and .desktop | > | files. Sure, they will be out of s

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Another would be to ship three systemd units, one being «smtp», one > being «queue runner» a third being «smtp+queue runner» or just generate > the .service file dynamically based on what the admin configures through > debconf. If there were systemd u

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 02:59:09PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | How hard can it be to > | support both sysvinit and systemd? It's just two little files to > | maintain instead of one. We also have/had both .menu and .desktop > | files. Sure, they will be out of sync once in a while, but other

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Guus Sliepen | On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: | | > If you want a more suitable comparison, supporting two init systems | > would be like supporting two packaging formats. It means more work for | > all maintainers to support all possible combinations, and i

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Marc Haber Hi, | exim4 is one example, and it adds some extra complexity. An exim4 | daemon does two jobs: Running the queue and listening for SMTP. | Currently, you can configure in /etc/default/exim4 whether you want | both jobs to be done by the same daemon, two dedicated daemons or only |

Re: gpfs packages for a migration to Debian ?

2011-07-22 Thread Stéphan Gorget
2011/7/22 Luk Claes : > On 07/22/2011 10:19 AM, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: >> Hello, > > Hi > >> I hope that this mailing list is the right one for that kind of questions. >> >> I am investigating the availability of packages for de IBM General >> Parallel File System (GPFS) [1] for Debian. It

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Robert Millan | | If portability was made a mandatory requirement for an init system to | be adopted, | would the systemd porters be willing to implement everything needed | to support on non-Linux ports the packages using a non-traditional init | configuration, in the way they consider appro

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Guus Sliepen wrote: >> By the way, we already have the SysV init scripts, so we don't need to do >> anything to keep supporting that, while it will take some time before every >> package with a daemon has th

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Guus Sliepen wrote: > By the way, we already have the SysV init scripts, so we don't need to do > anything to keep supporting that, while it will take some time before every > package with a daemon has the required systemd scripts in place, I think we > should wait

Bug#635065: ITP: whatweb -- Next generation web scanner

2011-07-22 Thread Guillaume Delacour
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Guillaume Delacour -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: whatweb Version : 0.4.7 Upstream Author : Andrew Horton * URL : http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb * License : GPLv2

Bug#635058: ITP: wizznic -- Implementation of the arcade classic Puzznic

2011-07-22 Thread Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz
Package: wpnn Severity: wishlist Owner: "Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz" * Package name: wizznic Version : 0.9.2-preview2 Upstream Author : Jimmy Christensen * URL : http://wizznic.sf.net/ * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Implementat

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > If you want a more suitable comparison, supporting two init systems > would be like supporting two packaging formats. It means more work for > all maintainers to support all possible combinations, and it doesn’t > change anything

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:46:54AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 09:58 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : >So, since you don’t need it, other people don’t need it either? No, since I don’t need it, I don’t want to be forced to use it. So you prefer to force your crap

Re: gpfs packages for a migration to Debian ?

2011-07-22 Thread Luk Claes
On 07/22/2011 10:19 AM, Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote: > Hello, Hi > I hope that this mailing list is the right one for that kind of questions. > > I am investigating the availability of packages for de IBM General > Parallel File System (GPFS) [1] for Debian. It seems that this kind of > distri

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 22 juillet 2011 à 09:58 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 20:01 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : > >So, since you don’t need it, other people don’t need it either? > > No, since I don’t need i

gpfs packages for a migration to Debian ?

2011-07-22 Thread Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel
Hello, I hope that this mailing list is the right one for that kind of questions. I am investigating the availability of packages for de IBM General Parallel File System (GPFS) [1] for Debian. It seems that this kind of distributed filesystem is of 1st importance for an European institut to migra

Re: DEP-5 Copyright Question

2011-07-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:11:50PM -0500, Elías Alejandro wrote: > Dear all, > I've just read this thread. What do you think about this [1] > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/07/msg00427.html debian/copyright should list the names of the actual copyright holders of the work. debia

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-22 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:55:58 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >No, I don't think so. If these external tools double fork then they >are just wrong. Double Forking has been the right way to do it for decades. Demanding from upstreams that they change their software this fundamentally to cater for a new

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-22 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:37:48PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 20:01 +0200, Stephan Seitz a écrit : So, since you don’t need it, other people don’t need it either? No, since I don’t need it, I don’t want to be forced to use it. You know, there are some who just w

Bug#635049: ITP: tomld -- tomoyo learning daemon, fully automatic MAC configuration

2011-07-22 Thread Andras Horvath
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andras Horvath * Package name: tomld Version : 0.38-1 Upstream Author : Andras Horvath * URL : http://log69.com * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : tomoyo learning daemon, fully automatic MAC con