Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martín Ferrari > You can either run your own bot (debian package kgb-bot), or use ours. As > for the client, alioth does not have it installed, but you can run it off > /home/groups/kgb. It's installed now. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are

Re: Bug#688994: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 03:01:46 +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > 1) Client side (i.e. vasks): > > 1a) /home/groups/pkg-perl/meta/pkg-perl-post-receive > > BASE=/home/groups/pkg-perl > KGB=/home/groups/kgb/trunk > CONF=$BASE/kgb-client.conf > PKG=${DIR%.git} cat > hooks/reflog > if [ -e $BASE/KGB-

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread gregor herrmann
On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:48:23 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > For KGB the concept of a repository is a bit fuzzy. It is just the > > unit it uses to separate access control (password), channels to > > broadcast to, and a word in the commit notification. But you can use > > one of these for hundreds of

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martín Ferrari wrote: > (you have a really weird reply-to :)) I do? I see no such header.. > For KGB the concept of a repository is a bit fuzzy. It is just the > unit it uses to separate access control (password), channels to > broadcast to, and a word in the commit notification. But you can use

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Martín Ferrari
(you have a really weird reply-to :)) On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > d-i would like to use your bots, but we have an ever-changing list of > repositories. It'd be wrong to centralize the list of them in a bot's > config file. Any thoughts? For KGB the concept of a repositor

Work-needing packages report for Sep 28, 2012

2012-09-27 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 470 (new: 22) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 137 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Joey Hess
Martín Ferrari wrote: > If you rather use our bots, we'll need you to provide: a project/repository > name, an IRC channel, and a password (used to avoid spam, not really > secure). d-i would like to use your bots, but we have an ever-changing list of repositories. It'd be wrong to centralize the

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Not to "to knock 'em when they're down", but since it seems that the CIA.vc > service has officially closed recently (cannot find exactly when did that > happen), I think it's worthwhile offering this little project we (dam@, > gregoa@, and

Re: CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:52:52PM +0100, Martín Ferrari wrote: > Not to "to knock 'em when they're down", but since it seems that the CIA.vc > service has officially closed recently (cannot find exactly when did that > happen) http://shadowm.rewound.net/blog/archives/245-CIA.vc-is-dead.html http:/

CIA going down: KGB wants your commits!

2012-09-27 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi there! Not to "to knock 'em when they're down", but since it seems that the CIA.vc service has officially closed recently (cannot find exactly when did that happen), I think it's worthwhile offering this little project we (dam@, gregoa@, and me) have since a few years ago, called KGB (ha-ha).

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:53:36PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 14:39 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit : > > Agreed entirely. In particular, it breaks the very common use case of > > running a program with sudo. "sudo foo" leaves $HOME set to the user's > > home dire

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 14:39 -0700, Josh Triplett a écrit : > Agreed entirely. In particular, it breaks the very common use case of > running a program with sudo. "sudo foo" leaves $HOME set to the user's > home directory rather than root, so that foo will use the same > configuration eith

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Josh Triplett
Ivan Shmakov wrote: > I do remember filing a bug or two against packages that refer to > the getent () data to find the user's “home” directory instead > of using the HOME environment variable. > > The environment is the preferred place to check for this kind of >

Bug#688979: ITP: python-doublex -- doublex is a test doubles framework for the Python platform

2012-09-27 Thread Miguel Ángel García
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Miguel Ángel García" * Package name: python-doublex Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : David Villa Alises * URL : https://bitbucket.org/DavidVilla/python-doublex * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir () [and 1 more messages]

2012-09-27 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Josselin Mouette writes: > Le mercredi 26 septembre 2012 à 23:17 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : >> Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir () [and 1 more >> messages]"): >> > Maybe you should try and obtain a CTTE decision to patch that in glib. >> >> Surely it would be better to

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir () [and 1 more messages]

2012-09-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 septembre 2012 à 10:06 +0200, Bjørn Mork a écrit : > This is not a technical issue at all. It is about breaking user > expectations by breaking conventions. No, this is about breaking YOUR expectations. But what former SunOS 5.6 users expect is not necessarily what other users exp

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:14:49PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > In general I'm in favour of agreeing what can be relied upon and > then only providing that in buildds. But you are quite right that for > the purposes of buildds doing native building this improves your > success rate by glossing over poten

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-27 Thread Guillem Jover
On Thu, 2012-09-27 at 13:14:49 +0100, Wookey wrote: > But the case of uname _is_ easy to deal with - use dpkg-architecture. Well, not really if the patch is supposed to go upstream, given that dpkg-architecture is not a distribution-neutral interface. In most of the cases uname is wrong because

Re: ${HOME} vs. g_get_home_dir ()

2012-09-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120926 21:42]: > > The documentation for g_get_home_dir[1] also documents what a proper > > program can do, it's a simple: > > > const char *homedir = g_getenv ("HOME"); > >if (!homedir) > > homedir = g_get_home_dir (); > > > instead of using get_get_home_dir directly.

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-09-27 Thread Wookey
+++ Wouter Verhelst [2012-09-24 13:14 +0200]: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 07:06:57PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > That it breaks multiarch builds. > > Multiarch builds are not done on our buildd machines. Yet. They very likely will be soon, for partial architectures and cross-toolchains. A

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 23/09/2012 17:49, Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Sonntag, den 23.09.2012, 15:59 +0200 schrieb Joerg Jaspert: The DM flag (and in future ACL) shows that one trusts that one DM to do a good job on that one package. Extending it like "this DM may upload all packages of [whateverbiglist]" is jus

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 23/09/2012 17:49, Joachim Breitner wrote: we need to upload all>450 packages with no source change That's called a binNMU and is very simple to schedule, as you already know ;) In the OCaml team, we have the very same issue and we try to avoid arch:all packages for libraries and application

Re: Mini Debconf in Paris - November 24 & 25th 2012

2012-09-27 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
This is an english speaking mailing-list. Minux is asking how to register for the event. Registration is done on the wiki. It is not mandatory to register, but will helps us to have an approximation of the number of attendees. On 23/09/2012 00:44, Minux wrote: Je suis personnellement ravi d'ap