Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-09-17 at 16:46 +, Amit wrote: > Ben Hutchings decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > > > > > Trying to load usbhid and passing a quirks parameter so that it ignores > > > a specific device. Then, I have my own kernel module to control that > > > device. > > > > What is this driver? >

how to handle partial upgrade problems?

2012-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, I wanted to write a long and technical email about this subject ... and started over, doing it this way: I started looking for partial upgrade problems some time ago. Any *valid* mixture of packages from, for example, squeeze and wheezy (i.e. all (Pre-)Depends/Breaks/Conflicts are fulfilled)

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-09-17 15:40, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Very nice. Did you run this archive wide? Archive wide test is currently running in my local piuparts instance. This may still take some time until all packages have been retested. > Can I see your log file? Unfortunately my piuparts instance is not p

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-17 Thread Amit
Ben Hutchings decadent.org.uk> writes: > > > > Trying to load usbhid and passing a quirks parameter so that it ignores > > a specific device. Then, I have my own kernel module to control that > > device. > > What is this driver? It is a driver for a PIC microcontroller board. I was using usbhi

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:10:02 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 09/17/2012 12:49 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> On 09/17/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > >>> Modifying conffiles is forbidden by policy 10.7.3 > >> Well, conffile

Re: Microcode and the installer (Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > (replying to -devel and -boot only) > (I am not subscribed to -boot. Please keep -devel on replies, or CC me > directly). > > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, P

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > To cite http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt: > Packages' /etc/default scripts must be treated as configuration files. Which are not the same things as conffiles. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 01:57 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Oh well yes, bad example. We still have a lot of packages which modify >> /etc/default/* with debconf. Portmap, sysstat, ... - and they are >> supposed to be conffiles - [...] > > Why ar

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:07:46AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hello, > >tiny wrap-up for beta 2: the release happened one week after the >prospective date. Some tiny delays on various fronts added up and >explain that, but the overall results don't seem too bad to me. > >That's why I'm going to

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/17/2012 05:56 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, another recent addition to piuparts is running debsums to see whether shipped files are being incorrectly modified. This feature is in a experimental stage and not available in the git repository, yet. So far I have seen these problems: * pac

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:24:51PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Oh well yes, bad example. We still have a lot of packages which modify > /etc/default/* with debconf. Portmap, sysstat, ... - and they are > supposed to be conffiles - [...] Why are they supposed to be conffiles? It's fine for them t

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 01:18 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> So we shall drop things like automatic configuration of postfix? It >> actually even asks the user if the config file should be modified. That >> is just one example of a lot others that jump into my mind. > /etc/p

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-09-17 13:10, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So we shall drop things like automatic configuration of postfix? It > actually even asks the user if the config file should be modified. That > is just one example of a lot others that jump into my mind. It's perfectly fine to do this on configuration fi

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So we shall drop things like automatic configuration of postfix? It > actually even asks the user if the config file should be modified. That > is just one example of a lot others that jump into my mind. /etc/postfix/{main,master}.cf are not conffiles, so there i

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 12:49 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 09/17/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >>> Modifying conffiles is forbidden by policy 10.7.3 >> Well, conffiles are sometimes modified due to the result of asking >> questions wi

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:59:44AM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 09/17/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Modifying conffiles is forbidden by policy 10.7.3 > Well, conffiles are sometimes modified due to the result of asking > questions with debconf - at least the md5sum might change, al

Bug#687934: ITP: stevedore -- Manage dynamic plugins for Python applications

2012-09-17 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Julien Danjou * Package name: stevedore Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Doug Hellmann * URL : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/stevedore * License : Apache Programming Lang: Python Description : Manage dynamic plugins

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 09/17/2012 11:56 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Modifying conffiles is forbidden by policy 10.7.3 Well, conffiles are sometimes modified due to the result of asking questions with debconf - at least the md5sum might change, although the content stays the same with debconf priority=high. Are you

mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, another recent addition to piuparts is running debsums to see whether shipped files are being incorrectly modified. This feature is in a experimental stage and not available in the git repository, yet. So far I have seen these problems: * package modifies a conffile it ships * package modifi

Bug#687932: ITP: python-django-openstack-auth -- A django authentication backend for Openstack

2012-09-17 Thread Mehdi Abaakouk
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mehdi Abaakouk * Package name: python-django-openstack-auth Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Gabriel Hurley * URL : https://github.com/gabrielhurley/django_openstack_auth.git * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python