Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

2012-02-26 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2012, 18:46 +0200 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > (We even have a patch to allow only a subset of packages but it is > > unfortunately a bit too hackish.) > > Would be really nice to have some standard sets available (think > "browser extensi

Re: description of "general" pseudo-package is misleading (leads people to use it as a catch-all)

2012-02-26 Thread Don Armstrong
retitle 661241 vlc probably using wrong sound output by default (but not clear from reporter) reassign 661241 vlc tag 661241 moreinfo severity 661241 minor submitter 661241 Mikko Koho thanks Mikko Koho: I'm guessing as to what your problem is, but you're going to have to provide more information

Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

2012-02-26 Thread Philip Hands
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:32:18 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to enable non-root users to install packages on > their local machines, but not removing/purging them. Well, perhaps an option (which also allows removal) is what used to be called klik, but wha

Re: Copyright format 1.0 (developed as DEP-5) now available

2012-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:12:09 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >The easiest way to do this is to run > > cme fix dpkg-copyright > >(and check the results, of course.) > is lintian check not enough ? Since copyright-format 1.0, and also the implementations in cme and lintian are quite new, I sugge

Re: cdn.debian.net as a project service?

2012-02-26 Thread Raphael Geissert
[Yay for replying nearly a year later. Sorry about that, I completely missed your email.] Michael Vogt wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:35:23AM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote: >> P.S. apt also provides a "mirror" method (just like http, ftp, etc) but I >> consider it to be suboptimal and a poor

Re: leaks in our only-signed-software fortress

2012-02-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Toni Mueller may or may not have written... > 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,

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 17:24, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Maybe the solution isn't event base or dependency based. Maybe the > right solution is event based and dependency based. In one sense this is obviously right. Any solution has to respond to various kinds of events and has to be able to

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-26 Thread YunQiang Su
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 21:03 +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 17:36 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> > Uoti Urpala writes: > >> I don't think it's an accident that this discussion came up in >> the context of kFreeBSD.

Re: Copyright format 1.0 (developed as DEP-5) now available

2012-02-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 26/02/12 19:17, gregor herrmann wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:20:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Version 1.0 of the machine-readable format for debian/copyright files (the culmination of the DEP-5 process) has now been published. The canonical URL (and also the URL to use in the Format fiel

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-26 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 21:03 +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: > On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 17:36 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > Uoti Urpala writes: > I don't think it's an accident that this discussion came up in > the context of kFreeBSD. Extra hardware architectures typically require > a lot less ef

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-26 Thread Uoti Urpala
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 17:36 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Uoti Urpala writes: > > > I think it's quite arrogant of BSD users to expect others to work to > > support their systems. The BSD userbase is small enough that most > > projects have alternative things to work on that help a lot mor

Re: Copyright format 1.0 (developed as DEP-5) now available

2012-02-26 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:20:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Version 1.0 of the machine-readable format for debian/copyright files (the > culmination of the DEP-5 process) has now been published. The canonical > URL (and also the URL to use in the Format field in such files) is: > http://www.deb

Re: source-contains-waf-binary tag added to nonfatal lintian autoreject list

2012-02-26 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
On 02/26/2012 03:00 PM, Luca Falavigna wrote: lintian 2.5.5, recently uploaded in unstable, introduced a new tag called "source-contains-waf-binary", which checks whether waf "binary" is available in source packages. Please see [0] for further information. We just added the tag to the dak nonfat

Bug#661361: ITP: haskell-ghc-syb-utils -- Scrap Your Boilerplate utilities for the GHC API

2012-02-26 Thread Kiwamu Okabe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kiwamu Okabe * Package name: haskell-ghc-syb-utils Version : 0.2.1.0 Upstream Author : Thomas Schilling * URL : http://github.com/nominolo/ghc-syb * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Scrap Yo

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 17:24 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 20:17, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:58:08AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > >

Re: A few observations about systemd

2012-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Uoti Urpala writes: > I think it's quite arrogant of BSD users to expect others to work to > support their systems. The BSD userbase is small enough that most > projects have alternative things to work on that help a lot more people > than BSD support would. Trying to support extra platforms the

Bug#661360: ITP: haskell-io-choice -- Choice for IO and lifted IO

2012-02-26 Thread Kiwamu Okabe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kiwamu Okabe * Package name: haskell-io-choice Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Kazu Yamamoto * URL : http://hackage.haskell.org/package/io-choice * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: Haskell Description : Choice

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 20:17, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:58:08AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > >> >> Upstart also does not support Should-Start which makes it impossible to

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Arno Töll writes: > On 24.02.2012 17:07, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Josselin Mouette writes: And we write a >> compatibility layer for non-Linux >>> systems, that generates sysvinit-compatible scripts based on >>> systemd services or upstart jobs. > ... >> So what you are saying is: >> >> L

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > Now, parts of this design were hard won, based on issues encountered in the > first iteration of event-based booting in Ubuntu. Since that first > iteration is present in the only Ubuntu LTS release to date that uses native > upstart jobs, it's possible this is where you

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Hi Steve, On Fri, 2012-02-24 at 01:35 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Martin, > > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 01:06:41PM +0100, 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 > >

Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

2012-02-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Sebastian Heinlein writes: > APTDAEMON::Restrict::Users { "joe", "jane"; }; > APTDAEMON::Restrict::Tags::Allow { "interface::shell"; }; > APTDAEMON::Restrict::Tags::Deny { "interface::daemon"; }; > > Would this be of any help to you? Sounds like a great start. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Enabling package installation for non-root users

2012-02-26 Thread Sebastian Heinlein
Am Donnerstag, den 23.02.2012, 18:46 +0200 schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors: > Josselin Mouette writes: > > (We even have a patch to allow only a subset of packages but it is > > unfortunately a bit too hackish.) > > Would be really nice to have some standard sets available (think > "browser extensi

Bug#661333: ITP: python-socketpool -- simple python socket pool

2012-02-26 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-socketpool Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Beno$(D+B(Bt Chesneau (benoitc) Tarek Ziade (tarek) * URL or Web page : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/socketpool * License : M

source-contains-waf-binary tag added to nonfatal lintian autoreject list

2012-02-26 Thread Luca Falavigna
Hi, lintian 2.5.5, recently uploaded in unstable, introduced a new tag called "source-contains-waf-binary", which checks whether waf "binary" is available in source packages. Please see [0] for further information. We just added the tag to the dak nonfatal autoreject list, that means packages tri

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Josselin Mouette writes: > Or, as has been said countless times otherwise: kFreeBSD should not > hinder the improvement of the Linux ports. I agree. I also vaguely recall that we this was the consensus that we reached at the kfreebsd BoF Debconf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 26 février 2012 à 13:05 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > “Demo version not suitable for production” sounds much like our kFreeBSD > ports. (The Hurd port does not even go as far.) To clarify, since I was asked on IRC: I’m not implying that we should not *aim* for the goal of making

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 26 février 2012 à 10:19 +0100, Andreas Barth a écrit : > You are of course free to provide a systemd version that is accepted > by upstream and works on all of our release architectures. Unless that, > I consider systemd a demo version not suiteable for production, and > nothing else.

Re: upstart: please update to latest upstream version

2012-02-26 Thread Andreas Barth
* Uoti Urpala (uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi) [120226 00:29]: > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Uoti Urpala (26/02/2012): > > > Is there reason to believe this would be a particular problem with > > > systemd? Most of the controversy I've seen surrounding Poettering has > > > been due to people resisting the