Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/22/2012 02:56 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >> On 02/21/2012 08:06 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> >>> If I understand correctly, the current Ubuntu version 1.4-0ubuntu8 >>> works perfectly for Debian. Is there any reaso

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/22/2012 08:25 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Instead, I'd like > to just say "run this daemon with these arguments" and dispense with all > the obnoxious boilerplate. +1 We are wasting a lot of time writing complex init.d scripts when all these should be automated to begin with. This is error pro

Re: DDTSS broken (was: Description-less Packages indices)

2012-02-21 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Martin and l10n/i18n teams! DISCLAIMER: I know nothing about l10n/i18n and the associated services (except for the bubulle-powered statistics auto-blogging one). Martin Eberhard Schauer (21/02/2012): > > As I can't magically fix all this by myself, I think that the only > > choice I hav

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 22, "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" wrote: > Is init not a timeless thing unworthy to plot the removal of ? No. We badly need an event-driven boot process, be it either upstart or systemd. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > It's not unusual for NFS mounts to fail to mount during startup due to > race conditions, so users would end up without their home directory > after a reboot from time to time. It's quite nice to have systemd take care > of that. That is a

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
"John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" writes: > I also fail to see how upstart or systemd add anything new while they > obscure or delete previous good work (by suggesting init(1) is to be > deleted). I would like to stop writing the same complex 50-line shell script with the same obscure and w

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
I also fail to see how upstart or systemd add anything new while they obscure or delete previous good work (by suggesting init(1) is to be deleted). Is init not a timeless thing unworthy to plot the removal of ? why Can they not figure out how init(1) works ? Doe

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 04:49:33PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > > There is a > big difference between all of the changelog concerning you being: > > * Team upload. > > to it being > > * Team upload. > * Fixed libquack linking with moox, depends: updated (Closes: #654321) >

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 21, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > The biggest disadvantage of systemd is surely that it is Linux-only and > probably won't work with other kernels in near future, so it's absolutely > desirable to support several init systems in Debian. No, it's not. If we want to keep supporting the

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl writes: > Afaics both upstream projects take more or less the same position on > that matter. > At least Scott [1] was clear that he didn't intend to merge any > non-Linux specific code and that a kfreebsd port would basically have to > be maintained as a fork/branch. My recollect

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dijo [Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:46:50AM -0200]: > Good packaging developers go to great lengths to be sure they are not > going to distribute anything trojaned. This takes a lot of work, and > often requires very goot working relationship with upstream to the point > of g

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Biebl
On 21.02.2012 21:25, Russ Allbery wrote: > The most likely way forward is some period where either can be used and we > see how things shake out. Unfortunately, neither currently supports > kFreeBSD. The upstart upstream seems more amenable to doing so than the > systemd upstream. Afaics both u

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:49:37PM +0900]: > > > r-cran-proto (0.3-9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > > > > * Team upload. > > > > > > [ Carlos Borroto ] > > > * Initial release (Closes: #657994) > > > > > >  -- Charles Plessy   Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:47:2

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Feb 21, 2012, at 11:22 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:28:55PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> What do you know of the upstart design that makes you think systemd's design >>> is better? The above could be a paraphrase of Lennart's blog, for all it >>> says

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:28:55PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > What do you know of the upstart design that makes you think systemd's design > > is better? The above could be a paraphrase of Lennart's blog, for all it > > says about the upstart design. > Socket-based activation. u

DDTSS broken (was: Description-less Packages indices)

2012-02-21 Thread Martin Eberhard Schauer
Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Davide Prina (davide.pr...@gmail.com): the DDTSS is totally broken :-( When this change happened, I somehow secretly expected someone to step up and try fixing the DDT* things. ... So, as many, I discovered the problem when it happened. not immediately as

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-21 Thread Toni Mueller
On 02/18/2012 11:48 AM, Thomas Koch wrote: > What about a debhelper script that receives an URL (or set of mirror URLs) > and > a SHA1 and does the download and check? If you're going this way, try to peek at the *BSD's ports systems, specifically their 'distinfo' files. SHA1 is not enough, imho

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 22:28 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > >> There is a discussion about it here [1]. > > > >> [1] > >> http://undacuvabrutha.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/why-ubuntu-should-continue-with-upstart-for-11-10/ > > > > N

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Feb 21, 2012, at 10:12 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > What do you know of the upstart design that makes you think systemd's design > is better? The above could be a paraphrase of Lennart's blog, for all it > says about the upstart design. Socket-based activation. It just seems to be the proper

Bug#660789: ITP: girara -- user interface library for minimalistic interfaces

2012-02-21 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Ramacher -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: girara Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Moritz Lipp * URL : http://pwmt.org/projects/girara/ * License : Zlib Programming Lang: C D

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:03:51PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Debian has a history for providing a variety of packages with similar > >> functionality and leave the choice up to the user. > >> However, with systemd at the hori

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Russ Allbery
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> I don't know what gives you that impression. > From my impression, systemd seems way more functional and well-designed > than upstart. It is - more or less - a clone of Apple's launchd with its > socket-bas

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Feb 21, 2012, at 8:59 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Debian has a history for providing a variety of packages with similar >> functionality and leave the choice up to the user. > >> However, with systemd at the horizon, I don't see a need in supporting it >> either. Ubuntu will probably make t

Re: Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

2012-02-21 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2012-02-16 06:12, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:12:28AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Ah, OK. If the request is going to be "Why am I experiencing problem foo?", then it makes sense on debian-user. In that case, the problem is just phrasing (in the current phrasing, the user

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:56:02PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Debian has a history for providing a variety of packages with similar > functionality and leave the choice up to the user. > However, with systemd at the horizon, I d

Re: Description-less Packages indices

2012-02-21 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Davide Prina (davide.pr...@gmail.com): > the DDTSS is totally broken :-( When this change happened, I somehow secretly expected someone to step up and try fixing the DDT* things. I have to say that I personnally never anticipated the consequences of the change, even if I had been warned t

Re: Bug#655999: [bugs.debian.org] Reporting documentation - "What package does your bug report belong to?" points to user support groups

2012-02-21 Thread Filipus Klutiero
On 2012-02-16 05:01, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:12:28AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero wrote: Hum, interesting. I am aware that the ITS deals with errors in the package given, like when the user does a typo, but I'm not aware that one can "knowingly report

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On Feb 21, 2012, at 7:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 02/21/2012 08:06 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: >> If I understand correctly, the current Ubuntu version 1.4-0ubuntu8 >> works perfectly for Debian. Is there any reason to not upload this >> version to Debian? >> >> > I always wondered: what

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 02/21/2012 08:06 PM, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > If I understand correctly, the current Ubuntu version 1.4-0ubuntu8 > works perfectly for Debian. Is there any reason to not upload this > version to Debian? > > I always wondered: what's the point in having upstart in Debian, when we don't really u

Re: what is the quality of abi-compliance-checker ?

2012-02-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > i am not able to tell if abi-compliance-checker is serious enough to > be able to use its results to ensure ABI-compatibility of C++ libs. > It gives informations like : > http://www.upstream-tracker.org/versions/v8.html It's the

SV: Description-less Packages indices

2012-02-21 Thread Joe Dalton
On these pages you can get an idea about that is going on: This is the frontend for Danish: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/da Some info: http://ddtp.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/xx Some more info (a little bit outdated): http://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ddtp I can't help with the

Bug#660762: ITP: bowtie2 -- ultrafast memory-efficient short read aligner

2012-02-21 Thread Alexandre Mestiashvili
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili * Package name: bowtie2 Version : 2.0.0-beta5 Upstream Author : Ben Langmead * URL : http://bowtie-bio.sourceforge.net/bowtie2/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++, Perl Description : ult

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 21, Ian Jackson wrote: > Please do not make udev mandatory. There are still refuseniks out > there and I can see why they make that choice. Statistics show that they are not relevant. Duplicating code paths has a cost, and it's big when one of them is never tested. -- ciao, Marco sign

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 08:08:33AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > Charles Plessy dijo [Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:59:34AM +0900]: > > > > r-cran-proto (0.3-9.2-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > > * Team upload. > > > > [ Carlos Borroto ] > > * Initial release (Closes: #657994) > >

Re: Description-less Packages indices

2012-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Davide Prina writes ("Re: Description-less Packages indices"): > the DDTSS is totally broken :-( Well, I don't know anything about "DDTSS". I don't know what it is, at all, and I have never been involved in the translation effort. But I do think I understand how the client code works, mostly any

Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)

2012-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: Improving hwclock support in Debian (testing wanted)"): > On Feb 18, Roger Leigh wrote: > > • There are currently two init scripts, hwclockfirst.sh and > > hwclock.sh. The reasons for these two originally existing > Why do you still bother with init scripts? With very

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jakub Wilk dijo [Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 03:08:50PM +0100]: > Now that we have a concept of a “team upload”[0], I'd like to have > putting team's name in the changelog trailer officially deprecated. > > This would: > 1) allow to always identify person responsible for a particular upload; > 2) help to

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:59:34AM +0900]: > If there is ambiguity about credit, perhaps the BTS boilerplate could be > amended to include a disclaimer that not all of it shall come to the uploader. > > Recenlty, I have uploaded new packages with changelogs like the following. >

Bug#660745: ITP: python-byteplay -- Python bytecode assembler-disassembler

2012-02-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jakub Wilk * Package name: python-byteplay Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Noam Yorav-Raphael * URL : https://code.google.com/p/byteplay/ * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python byteco

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-21 Thread W. Martin Borgert
If I understand correctly, the current Ubuntu version 1.4-0ubuntu8 works perfectly for Debian. Is there any reason to not upload this version to Debian? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#660731: ITP: libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl -- module to create Excel spreadsheets in xlsx format

2012-02-21 Thread Alexander Zangerl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Zangerl * Package name: libexcel-writer-xlsx-perl Version : 0.46 Upstream Author : John McNamara * URL : http://search.cpan.org/~jmcnamara/Excel-Writer-XLSX-0.46/ * License : GPL, Artistic Programming Lang: P

Re: Teams in changelog trailers

2012-02-21 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2012-02-21, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Joachim Breitner wrote: >> On a related note however, I do not see the point of the “Team upload” >> line (and do not use it in the Haskell Team uploads). It does not log a >> change, I can ignore the lintian warnings manually, and if it

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