Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Imagine for a minute that we have 2 implementation of the same service. > Lets say, for this example, MariaDB and MySQL (this is *not* a real world > example, since last time I checked, we don't have MariaDB in Debian but > it well could be a real proble

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/09/2012 02:15 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does this; although it is pretty pointless since those files will be gone after reboot. So, even though policy says "must not", it's not really a problem in practice, so important is pr

Re: CD1 without a network mirror isn't sufficient to install a full desktop environment

2012-10-08 Thread Serge
2012/9/18 Jon Dowland wrote: >> There's no need to walk through the minefield, it's already done. >> Fedora lost more than half of the user base with the Fedora 15 >> release (GNOME3 and systemd). > > [citation-needed] Good point. Initially it was a personal feeling. Many fedora users I know hav

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-08 Thread James Cloos
When unbound is installed, the root key is at /var/lib/unbound/root.key. The init script updates it, if requsted, by way of unbound-anchor(8). Ideally there would be a separate package each dnssec-aware package could depend on which would maintain the root.key file. For comparison, gentoo has a

Re: Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 22:02:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> "Packages must not include files or directories under /run, > >> or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths." > > > > Th

Storing additional metadata in the dpkg database [Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?]

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Biebl
On 08.10.2012 20:15, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> "Packages must not include files or directories under /run, >> or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths." > > The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does > this; al

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Michael Gilbert , 2012-10-08, 14:15: "Packages must not include files or directories under /run, or under the older /var/run and /var/lock paths." The thing is that it really does no harm if a package actually does this Given that /var/lock is world-writable in Debian, and that dpkg follows

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >>> Would it be appropriate to file RC bugs against all the packages >>> shipping anything in /var/run, /var/lock or /run? >>> >> No, there's nothing wrong with that. >> >> Cheers, >> Julien > > Li

Bug#689980: ITP: sweethome3d-furniture-editor -- Sweet Home 3D Furniture Library Editor

2012-10-08 Thread Gabriele Giacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gabriele Giacone <1o5g4...@gmail.com> * Package name: sweethome3d-furniture-editor Version : 1.8 Upstream Author : Emmanuel Puybaret, eTeks * URL : http://www.sweethome3d.com * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: Java

Re: Question about debian experimental.

2012-10-08 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > I have a question. Since maintainers of LXDE are extremely busy last Perhaps you would like to join the LXDE package maintainers team and help them out? They don't appear to be using the pkg-lxde group on alioth though, so best con

Re: Question about debian experimental.

2012-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: [new LXDE] >So question is - may it be possible to upload them into experimental > or I have still to bother maintainers? I feel sorry to do that again. Hello, an upload to experimental needs to be signed by a Debian Developer[1], there is no real difference to upl

Question about debian experimental.

2012-10-08 Thread Andrej N. Gritsenko
Hello! I have a question. Since maintainers of LXDE are extremely busy last few months I would like to find a way to upload latest upstream version of libfm and pcmanfm into experimental repository. I feel sorry that I constantly bug the maintainers with the same question and I think they

Re: assumptions about the build environment.

2012-10-08 Thread Ian Jackson
Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: assumptions about the build environment."): > More questions about build env assumptions: My answers: > Can you assume that /sbin and /usr/sbin are within PATH? No. Package builds are supposed to be done as the user; the rootness of the "install" target is just for file

Bug#689963: ITP: ibus-libpinyin -- Intelligent Pinyin engine based on libpinyin for IBus

2012-10-08 Thread Asias He
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Asias He * Package name: ibus-libpinyin Version : 1.4.92 Upstream Author : Peng Huang BYVoid Peng Wu * URL : https://github.com/libpinyin/ibus-libpinyin * License : GPL2 Progra

Bug#689961: ITP: ltrsift -- postprocessing and classification of LTR retrotransposons

2012-10-08 Thread satta
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: ltrsift Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Sascha Steinbiss * URL : http://www.zbh.uni-hamburg.de/LTRsift * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : postprocessing and class

Metapackages - What to do with them? (was: debian-ctte Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome)

2012-10-08 Thread Wolodja Wentland
I am posting this on -devel because I think that it rather belongs here than in the context of #681834 and the discussion in -ctte On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:41 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 octobre 2012 à 22:07 -0600, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > > I personally believe that metapac

Bug#689959: ITP: libpithub-perl -- Github v3 API

2012-10-08 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpithub-perl Version : 0.1016 Upstream Author : Johannes Plunien * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pithub/ * License

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 08/10/2012 12:33, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 23:16:05 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many >>> packages would be affected. Right now I have about

Re: possible mass bug filing for packages shipping stuff in /var/run, /var/lock, /run?

2012-10-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/08/2012 01:21 AM, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 23:16:05 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, I haven't made a detailed analysis, yet, and cannot say how many packages would be affected. Right now I have about 100 candidate piuparts logs that should cover /var/run and /var/

Bug#689950: ITP: libserver-starter-perl -- superdaemon for hot-deploying Perl server programs

2012-10-08 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro Ghedini * Package name: libserver-starter-perl Version : 0.12 Upstream Author : Kazuho Oku * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Server-Starter/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Descript

Bug#689948: ITP: libproc-wait3-perl -- Perl interface to wait3() system call

2012-10-08 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro Ghedini * Package name: libproc-wait3-perl Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Curt Tilmes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Proc-Wait3/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description