Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/02/2012 10:11 PM, Serge wrote: > First, there can be rather large session directory, you probably don't > want ~365595 files to be always eating your RAM. Second, session data > MUST NOT be lost on reboot by default. So even without /tmp, sysadmin > should not put session data on tmpfs. There

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-03 Thread Serge
2012/6/3 Toni Mueller wrote: >> First, there can be rather large session directory, you probably don't >> want ~365595 files to be always eating your RAM. > > Well, I much rather want that, or store the session data in memcache, > which is almost the same thing, only with a different label. Memca

Re: MIA check for John Francesco Ferlito (johnf)

2012-06-03 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
Dear John, On 04/06/12 00:33, John Ferlito wrote: > Hi Dimitri, > > Just noticed you uploaded a new package. WOuld you like to officially > take over maintainership? > Yes, I would. Many debian developers use this package. All of your expertise with the package would be highly appreciated, as t

Re: MIA check for John Francesco Ferlito (johnf)

2012-06-03 Thread John Ferlito
Hi Dimitri, Just noticed you uploaded a new package. WOuld you like to officially take over maintainership? On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:50:09AM +1000, John Ferlito wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm around, I was married recently so the last few months have been a > bit chaotic. I'll look over all my stuff

Bug#675889: ITP: stsci.distutils -- Python packaging utilities for STScI's packages

2012-06-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aurelien Jarno * Package name: stsci.distutils Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Erik M. Bray * URL : stsci.distutils * License : 3-clause BSD like Programming Lang: Python Description : Python packaging utilities

Bug#675885: ITP: d2to1 -- Python support for distutils2-like setup.cfg files as package metadata

2012-06-03 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Aurelien Jarno * Package name: d2to1 Version : 0.2.7 Upstream Author : Erik M. Bray * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/d2to1 * License : 3-clause BSD like Programming Lang: Python Description : Python support fo

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Bernhard, On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 01:51:33PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Toni Mueller [120603 11:41]: > > Since we obviously can't agree on *how* the service is to be run, one > > could just ask the user, eg., in the case of a printing service: > The print servers I looked at did not a

Bug#675879: ITP: libmason-plugin-routersimple-perl -- Mason plugin to specify routes for page components

2012-06-03 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmason-plugin-routersimple-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mason-Plugin-RouterSimple/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Program

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-03 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 05:11:16PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/2 Toni Mueller wrote: > > Eg. web application's session data very frequently goes there, and/or > > the sysadmin wants it to go onto a tmpfs. > > First, there can be rather large session directory, you probably don't > want ~365595

Bug#675877: ITP: libmason-plugin-cache-perl -- component cache object and filter for Mason

2012-06-03 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmason-plugin-cache-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mason-Plugin-Cache/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Per

Bug#675876: ITP: libmason-plugin-htmlfilters-perl -- HTML generation filter plugin for Mason

2012-06-03 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libmason-plugin-htmlfilters-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mason-Plugin-HTMLFilters/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programmi

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine

2012-06-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Friday 25 May 2012 05:55 PM, Serge wrote: > So instead of fixing the defaults you suggest everybody to drop > the programs they use (mc, firefox, mysql)? ;) I think I'll agree with you here. The current state seems to be broken. Having tmpfs on

Bug#675871: ITP: libpoet-perl -- modern Perl web framework for Mason developers

2012-06-03 Thread Florian Schlichting
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Schlichting * Package name: libpoet-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Jonathan Swartz * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Poet/ * License : GPL-1+, Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : modern

Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-03 Thread Joey Hess
Roger Leigh wrote: > OK, some benchmarks were requested in this thread in a few places. No, a lack of premature optimisation was requested. When one is engaged in premature optimisation, one does lots of benchmarks, and finds things that seem to speed up nicely, and has many happy nice numbers .

Bug#675829: ITP: libmodule-install-trustmetayml-perl -- trust META.yml list of dependencies

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-trustmetayml-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-TrustMetaYml/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Progra

Bug#675821: ITP: libmodule-install-readmefrompod-perl -- automatically convert POD to a README

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-readmefrompod-perl Version : 0.18 Upstream Author : Chris 'BinGOs' Williams * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-ReadmeFromPod/ * License : Artistic or GPL

Bug#675805: ITP: libmodule-install-doapchangesets-perl -- write your distribution change log in RDF

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-doapchangesets-perl Version : 0.202 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-DOAPChangeSets/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Pr

Bug#675803: ITP: libmodule-install-doap-perl -- generate META.yml data from DOAP

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-doap-perl Version : 0.004 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-DOAP/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Aaron Toponce writes: > By default in Debian, when a service package is installed, such as > openssh-server, or isc-dhcp-server, it starts the service. This seems > counter-intuitive to me. As you mentioned, this is a really old issue. I've documented my personal solution at http://bugs.debian.o

Bug#675795: ITP: libmodule-install-automanifest-perl -- generate MANIFEST automatically

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-automanifest-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Hans Dieter Pearcey * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-ManifestSkip/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+

Re: Upgrade path for packages that dropped ia32-libs for wheezy

2012-06-03 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM -0400, Scott Howard wrote: > Hello, > > I have a non-free package that is distributable but comes precompiled > for i386. Squeeze (and previous) released an amd64 package that > depended on ia32-libs. For wheezy we've been able to use multiarched > libraries to d

Bug#675792: ITP: libmodule-install-autolicense-perl -- automagically generate LICENSE files

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-autolicense-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Chris Williams * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-AutoLicense/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Program

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Toni Mueller [120603 11:41]: > Since we obviously can't agree on *how* the service is to be run, one > could just ask the user, eg., in the case of a printing service: > > "I just installed the file sharing service. Do you want to start > sharing immediately (will allow other people to acces

Bug#675786: ITP: libmodule-package-rdf-perl -- drive your distribution with RDF

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-package-rdf-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Package-RDF/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#675781: ITP: libmodule-manifest-skip-perl -- MANIFEST.SKIP management for Perl modules

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-manifest-skip-perl Version : 0.16 Upstream Author : Ingy döt Net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Manifest-Skip/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Per

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 08:21:02AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Enabling services on external interfaces by default is indeed a bug, IMO, > especially things like SSH, DHCP, SMTP or Bind (which has a long history of > security problems). SSH is imho the one exeption to the rule, provided it h

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread Toni Mueller
On Sun, Jun 03, 2012 at 08:21:34AM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Aaron Toponce [120602 16:26]: > > However, I am calling into question the validity of starting a service by > > default post-install. I think it introduces security concerns, possible > > headaces on the local LAN, and just un

Bug#675770: ITP: libmodule-install-manifestskip-perl -- generate a MANIFEST.SKIP file

2012-06-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: libmodule-install-manifestskip-perl Version : 0.20 Upstream Author : Ingy döt Net * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Install-ManifestSkip/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Program

Re: Starting services automatically after install

2012-06-03 Thread George Danchev
On Sunday 03 June 2012 08:46:21 Chow Loong Jin wrote: Hi, > On 03/06/2012 11:23, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:43:00PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> Are you seriously suggesting that DHCP and SSH servers should not listen > >> on external interfaces by default? The use