Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Miles Bader
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > $ sudo apt-get remove network-manager* > $ sudo apt-get install wicd wicd-curses wicd-gtk > ^ wicd-kde ? > $ wicd-curses > > And enjoy your network without the NM mess :) ... unless, of course, you're using gnome-shell,

Re: Time to remove 32/64-bit variants of GMP?

2012-03-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > In the short term this isn't possible, because there's no sparc64 > architecture specified or supported in the archive.  So I'd say it's > entirely up to you as the maintainer whether to support lib64gmp10, or if > you'd rather nudge folks

Re: Time to remove 32/64-bit variants of GMP?

2012-03-28 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Steve, On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:51:35PM -0500, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > Similar to a recent question from J. Berkenbilt [1], I'd like to > understand whether there is still value in producing 32- and 64-bit > variants of the GMP packages. > GMP is already Multi-Arch enabled, but it still pr

Time to remove 32/64-bit variants of GMP?

2012-03-28 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Similar to a recent question from J. Berkenbilt [1], I'd like to understand whether there is still value in producing 32- and 64-bit variants of the GMP packages. GMP is already Multi-Arch enabled, but it still produces a 32-bit library for certain 64-bit architectures and, similarly, a 64-bit lib

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 23/03/12 13:35, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 14:16 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> > On Vi, 23 mar 12, 00:07:43, Svante Signell wrote: >>> > > >>> > > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something >>> > > breaks!!! Network *should* work also in console mode

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-03-18 00:53:37 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I know almost nothing about systemd > > I'd like people to think twice before opt-in for systemd. I just > taked with a friend working for redhat, and he told me how much > he hates it. He told me that if *anything* goes wrong in the boot > pro

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 06:46:21PM -0400, Joey Hess a écrit : > > But, writing an ITP requires looking up most of the control file data, > and requires researching the copyright too. Hi all, I have sent ITPs containing a copy of the control and copyright files instead of the proposed layout, and

Bug#666133: ITP: fonts-cabinsketch -- playful sister of the Cabin Family

2012-03-28 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernhard Reiter * Package name: fonts-cabinsketch Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Pablo Impallari * URL : http://www.impallari.com/cabinsketch * License : OFL 1.1 Description : playful sister of the Cabin Family

Bug#666082: ITP: libics -- Image Cytometry Standard file reading and writing

2012-03-28 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Malaterre * Package name: libics Version : 1.5.2 Upstream Author : Cris Luengo * URL : http://libics.sf.net * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C Description : Image Cytometry Standard file reading and wri

Bug#666075: ITP: libam7xxx -- library for accessing am7xxx based devices

2012-03-28 Thread Antonio Ospite
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antonio Ospite * Package name: libam7xxx Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Antonio Ospite * URL : http://git.ao2.it/libam7xxx.git/ * License : GPLv2, GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : library for accessing

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-28 Thread Toni Mueller
On 03/17/2012 01:40 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:23:57 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> NAME=package-binary-file >> DESC="package daemon description" >> >> [ -e . /usr/share/sysv-lib/debsysv-lib ] && debsysv-init-lib $@ > > I'm happy to help with that ... although, I doubt we'r

Re: Preinstalled package manager(s) for PCs (wheezy)

2012-03-28 Thread Jon Dowland
On 27/03/12 17:09, Filipus Klutiero wrote: So what do others think? I think that we need to separate the notion of a debian desktop from the GNOME or KDE desktops. Synaptic is probably quite rightly not part of either, but I agree that a "default desktop" via install should provide a GUI pa

Re: usefulness of ITPs (Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over)

2012-03-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Jean-Christophe Dubacq writes: > What about a dev. script that would be run in debian/ and would parse > debian/control and send the ITP? I can write that! The Perl group already has a script that does this: examples/get-itp in git.debian.org:/git/pkg-perl/scripts.git. I don't use it myself and