Bug#654949: ITP: libgoogle-gson-java -- Converts Java objects into their JSON representation

2012-01-06 Thread Jakub Adam
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: libgoogle-gson-java Version: 2.1 Upstream Author: Google Inc. URL: http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/ License: Apache-2.0 Des

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-06 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:26:13 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Theoretically, there is no interesting binary package produced from this > source package and it seems that the policy does not explicitly require > that a source package produces binary packages... but I am certain that > this is

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:41:41PM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Current status > == > This is what I think we have for Debian. > Installer image > - --- > I do not think we have any UEFI-bootable installer images so far. I don't know if we do or not, but this seems to b

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/06/2012 02:46 PM, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > live with the idea that Debian must be usable for everyone in the > world (which is impossible, IMHO) but that's the life. at least debian is equally bad for everyone/everything, having almost no worst cases by itself, already is quite a good thing,

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/06/2012 11:06 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > That's what I don't get! I think using a remote MySQL is as uncommon as > a chrooted CGI environment. [...] we should apply the same reasoning to the > MySQL > server. There's no logic at all here. i beg to differ. web applications that use mysql (

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 01/06/2012 06:43 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: How many of these packages do clever things upon installation like setup their own virtual hosts or similar? >>> None, because that's forbidden by the Debian policy. >>> >> Where is that forbidden? > > Sorry, I don't want to

Bug#654920: ITP: python-icalendar -- parser/generator of iCalendar files for use with Python.

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Paul Tagliamonte * Package name: python-icalendar Version : 2.2 Upstream Author : Rok Garbas * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : parser/generator o

Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06.01.2012 19:09, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I don't think this would be an issue for anyone, and I wouldn't see any > argument against it (I'm sure someone in this list will though... :) ). > Your thoughts? The overall benefit over our virtual packag

db.debian.org with new layout

2012-01-06 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, with todays update of userdir-ldap-cgi, i have applied the 'spacefun' theme from Kalle, we applied to the debian website (www.debian.org) also to db.debian.org. Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas | Debian System Administrator Debian & GNU/Linux Developer | Debian Li

Re: Providing a dummy web server package in Debian (Removing web server dependencies from web apps)

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
It seems to be that I wasn't the only one with the issue. Bug #627213 shows how messy things can be. So, what about Debian providing a dummy package that would provide httpd, so that it would solve the issue? It'd be something like this: Package: dummy-httpd Provides: httpd, httpd-fastcgi, httpd

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-06 Thread Johan Henriksson
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:41:41PM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Hello all, > > > > UEFI (often called EFI, which was the name of its previous version) is a > > new firmware interf

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/07/2012 12:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> On 01/06/2012 04:34 PM, Neil Williams wrote: >> >>> It depends which is more common >>> >> I don't see why we would steer on the direction of the most common >> thing only. What we want is something that works all the time, no? >> If we

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-06 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:41:41PM +, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hello all, > > UEFI (often called EFI, which was the name of its previous version) is a > new firmware interface, which is expected to replace the BIOS on new > PCs, as at has al

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > On 01/06/2012 04:34 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > It depends which is more common > > I don't see why we would steer on the direction of the most common > thing only. What we want is something that works all the time, no? > If we remote the web server dependency, it works all

Bug#654896: ITP: xul-ext-debianbuttons -- Buttons for querying Debian-related pages with Iceweasel/Firefox

2012-01-06 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tanguy Ortolo -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: xul-ext-debianbuttons Version : 1.5 Upstream Author : Damyan Ivanov * URL : https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/debian-buttons/ * License

Bug#654892: ITP: libgxps -- GObject based library for handling and rendering XPS documents.

2012-01-06 Thread Savvas Radevic
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Savvas Radevic * Package name: libgxps Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Carlos Garcia Campos , Jason Crain * URL : http://live.gnome.org/libgxps * License : LGPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : GObject ba

ITP: tk-table -- Table extension for Tcl/Tk

2012-01-06 Thread Ole Streicher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher * Package name: tk-table Version : 2.10 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Hobbs * URL : http://tktable.sourceforge.net * License : BSD Programming Lang: C, Tcl Description : Table extension for Tcl/Tk Prov

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:12:15AM +0100, Miroslav Suchy wrote: > >Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi > > I would not say that your chroot setup is typical. Or common. I would > suggest creating your own empty apache2 package with version , which you > will install in th

Bug#654888: ITP: glances -- Glances is a CLI curses based system monitoring tool.

2012-01-06 Thread Nicolargo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolargo * Package name: glances Version : 1.3.5 Upstream Author : Nicolas Hennion * URL : https://github.com/nicolargo/glances * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Glances is a CLI curses ba

Re: [Long] UEFI support

2012-01-06 Thread Philipp Kern
Hi, On 2012-01-06, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Debian is concerned by this standard, because it has to be supported if > we want it to be usable on UEFI-based systems. And I think we should be > *very* concerned by it because, if I recall correctly, UEFI is a > requirement for the Windows 8 sticker pr

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 06/01/2012 15:19, Mathieu Parent wrote: > 2012/1/6 Olivier Bonvalet : >> Le 06/01/2012 08:56, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> >> For info, web apps which are not in PHP like redmine which use Ruby doesn't >> depend of apache2 or any other http server. >> So why should we depends of it for PHP apps o

[Long] UEFI support

2012-01-06 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello all, UEFI (often called EFI, which was the name of its previous version) is a new firmware interface, which is expected to replace the BIOS on new PCs, as at has already done so on Apple PCs. While modern operating system do not rely much on f

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Mathieu Parent
2012/1/6 Olivier Bonvalet : > Le 06/01/2012 08:56, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > > For info, web apps which are not in PHP like redmine which use Ruby doesn't > depend of apache2 or any other http server. > So why should we depends of it for PHP apps only ? Because ruby has an embedded web server (we

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 20:45, Thomas Goirand wrote: [...] > This is why I think the solution of moving apache2 | http as > a Recommends: is a good compromise. > > Never mind, it seems there's more people against my idea > than some thinking it was a smart one, so I'll hack with equivs > (which I di

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2012 06:47 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 06:15:36PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Then please explain to me how I can install let's say wordpress, in a >> chroot (and of course, without apache), without doing some hacks! Yes, >> wordpress is FORCING ME to i

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2012 07:07 PM, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > Le 06/01/2012 08:56, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> >> The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web >> servers, most of the time with something like this: >> >> Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi >> > > F

Re: new on list

2012-01-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 05 janvier 2012 à 17:40 +0200, vangelis a écrit : > Hi folks, > I'm totaly new and i need instructions and a guide how to start or if > there are groups to join as new beginner. 1. Go to http://wiki.debian.org/Teams 2. Pick a team working on something of interest for you. 3. Talk to the

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06.01.2012 12:07, Olivier Bonvalet wrote: > For info, web apps which are not in PHP like redmine which use Ruby > doesn't depend of apache2 or any other http server. > So why should we depends of it for PHP apps only ? And as a third example: trac

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Roland Mas
Thomas Goirand, 2012-01-06 18:06:35 +0800 : [...] > That's what I don't get! I think using a remote MySQL is as uncommon > as a chrooted CGI environment. >From what I've seen of various clients' systems, it isn't. The web server is often isolated not in a chroot but in a separate host (whether

Re: Source package without a binary

2012-01-06 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 05.01.2012, 22:33 -0800 schrieb Josh Triplett: > Joachim Breitner wrote: > > From my point of view, it seems desirable to package the testsuite as a > > source-package of its own, build-depending on GHC and the additional > > libraries required, and upload that. Our autobuil

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Olivier Bonvalet
Le 06/01/2012 08:56, Thomas Goirand a écrit : The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web servers, most of the time with something like this: Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi For info, web apps which are not in PHP like redmine which use Rub

Bug#654858: ITP: jenkins-remoting -- Bridge separate JVMs into a single semi-shared space

2012-01-06 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: jenkins-remoting Version : 2.4 * URL : http://github.com/jenkinsci/remoting * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Bridge sep

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Arno Töll
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 06.01.2012 10:12, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > The database server used by a given piece of software can be installed > on another system. The Web server cannot. Actually it can. Many modern webservers, including one I am maintaining support CGI off

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2012 05:12 PM, Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Thomas Goirand, 2012-01-06 08:56+0100: > >> Also, it's very surprising to see that we have dependencies for web >> servers, but most of the time *not* for mysql-server, which is as much >> needed in order to run these applications. I really don't un

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2012 05:12 PM, Miroslav Suchy wrote: > On 01/06/2012 08:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web >> servers, most of the time with something like this: >> >> Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi > > I would n

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 01/06/2012 04:34 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > It depends which is more common I don't see why we would steer on the direction of the most common thing only. What we want is something that works all the time, no? If we remote the web server dependency, it works all the time. Don't you think that

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Miroslav Suchy
On 01/06/2012 08:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web servers, most of the time with something like this: Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi I would not say that your chroot setup is typical. Or common. I woul

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Thomas Goirand, 2012-01-06 08:56+0100: > Also, it's very surprising to see that we have dependencies for web > servers, but most of the time *not* for mysql-server, which is as much > needed in order to run these applications. I really don't understand the > logic behind this. The database server

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Aron Xu
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 16:34, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:56:37 +0800 > Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web >> servers, most of the time with something like this: >> >> Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 |

Re: Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:56:37 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web > servers, most of the time with something like this: > > Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi Sounds like the situation for which equivs was des

Removing web server dependencies from web apps

2012-01-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, It's been a long time I'm thinking about writing a message like this one to -devel. I hope I can convince others. In many large installations, web servers are providing spaces in a chroot. Myself, I use sbox (which I rewrote for a big part) to provide this to my customers, so that each site