Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 30/05/2013 18:29, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:56:02 +0200, Olav Vitters > wrote: >> Seems the solutions are very focussed on the assumption that things >> cannot be changed. E.g. programs currently send email, so email it has >> to be forever. > > It is not a good idea to dro

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:44:12AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > I can't speak to other distributions, but in Debian, the systemd maintainers > > are in no position to decide that Debian will agree to rewrite its > > Focusing on "position to decide" seems less than construc

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Russ Allbery (30/05/2013): > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > Sorry, what bugreport? > > > I do not consider backports.debian.org of same quality as > > debian.org so am concerned by what you outline above, and would > > like to (at the least) read up on the relevant discussion > > (i.e. avoid rehas

folleto completo y sin compromiso

2013-05-30 Thread Patricia Hernandez Marin
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Re: libnss consolidation (was: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF))

2013-05-30 Thread brian m. carlson
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:04:47PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > Cons: > > > > - not all crypto libraries are equivalent; choosing one will exclude > > some functionality provided by others > > SEE compat layer > > - we somehow have to deal with legacy systems that can't convert > > - adopti

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Mark Symonds wrote: > If Upstart makes it into Debian Upstart is already in Debian. > Dependency based init already works well, to replace it with a hive of bugs > does not make sense. OpenRC is the only one which claims to be reverse > compatible, > if this is

Bug#710464: ITP: python-scrypt -- Python bindings for the scrypt key derivation function library

2013-05-30 Thread Micah Anderson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Micah Anderson * Package name: python-scrypt Version : 0.5.3 Upstream Author : Magnus Hallin * URL : http://bitbucket.org/mhallin/py-scrypt * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Python bindings f

Work-needing packages report for May 31, 2013

2013-05-30 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: 492 (new: 5) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 141 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 16:25:15, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > > 1/ Your parents don't read mail? That is surprising to me. In this days > > and age, everyone does. Unfortunately I'm finding that the above is not always the case. I'm increasingly runni

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 15:48:14, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the > >> > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Vincent Bernat writes: > I still use /etc/init.d/ start by habit and I find it convenient to > divert to systemd but I have no strong opinion on this. As long as > upstart jobs mask init scripts when booting, we are fine. Completely independent of the discussion in this thread, I encourage y

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 mai 2013 23:47 CEST, Steve Langasek  : >> > No, it won't. What it will do is provide a shell function you can call to >> > check if init is upstart, and if so, neuter your init script: > >> > if init_is_upstart; then >> > exit 1 >> > fi > >> > Doing this automatically by including /

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek wrote: > I'm assuming you're talking here about things like /etc/default/locale and > /etc/default/keyboard, which systemd upstream fails to handle. > > I can't speak to other distributions, but in Debian, the systemd maintainers > are in no position to decide that Debian will agree

Re: Ubuntu and Plymouth

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Mark, On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:41:06PM -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > …many of us have been to hell and back. Please be near-insanely careful > when considering a new init: > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-10-24_Ubuntu-Maverick_-Plymouth-Is-the-Worst-Thing-That-Happened-To-Lin

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:41:56PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:00:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > > Practical question: if I wer

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Flash Player Issue

2013-05-30 Thread Markus Frosch
Dear Halil, you've reached the Debian development mailing list, this is not a support channel for Ubuntu! You should have a look here: http://www.ubuntu.com/support Regards Markus 2013/5/30 Halil Kaya : > Hi. > For last several weeks I face a Flash Player problem in Ubuntu 12.04. I open > a vide

Ubuntu 12.04 Flash Player Issue

2013-05-30 Thread Halil Kaya
Hi. For last several weeks I face a Flash Player problem in Ubuntu 12.04. I open a video to watch. Then, sometimes it opens but several times it occurs error and black screen appears. I looked for solves on the internet and I did almost all the advices that people give in forums but it still persis

Re: Ubuntu and Plymouth

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:41:06PM -0700, Mark Symonds wrote: > > …many of us have been to hell and back. Please be near-insanely careful when > considering a new init: > > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-10-24_Ubuntu-Maverick_-Plymouth-Is-the-Worst-Thing-That-Happened-To-Linux.h

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:36:42PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 30 mai 2013 23:07 CEST, Steve Langasek  : > >> . /lib/lsb/init-functions > >> (Which should be near the top of your init script already.) > >> This will automagically invoke systemd or upstart if appropriate. > > No, it won't.

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Symonds
On May 28, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 25 May 2013 11:27:36 -0700, Russ Allbery > wrote: >> (The shading of meaning between those two options could be clearer. I >> took it as a measure of enthusiasm and personally answered "I welcome >> systemd in Debian" because, regardles

Ubuntu and Plymouth

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Symonds
…many of us have been to hell and back. Please be near-insanely careful when considering a new init: http://marc.merlins.org/perso/linux/post_2010-10-24_Ubuntu-Maverick_-Plymouth-Is-the-Worst-Thing-That-Happened-To-Linux.html Best - -- Mark

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 02:07:10PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:00:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > > Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart > > > init job and/or OpenRC to

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 mai 2013 23:07 CEST, Steve Langasek  : >> . /lib/lsb/init-functions > >> (Which should be near the top of your init script already.) >> This will automagically invoke systemd or upstart if appropriate. > > No, it won't. What it will do is provide a shell function you can call to > check if

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Josh Triplett [2013-05-29 11:50 -0700]: > Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > One problematic aspect are the various xul-ext-* packages currently > > packaged. It's very likely that some of them will break with ESR17 > > and ESR24 in the future. > > > > However, there's not much we can do here. We ca

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > The goal is to make the boot more standard across distributions. So no > unneeded differences in some configuration files, systemd conf files > which are generic enough to be included upstream, etc. > In the current state, each distri

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Get rid of some of that complexity because it is pointless (you'll find >> that much of it is working around inadequacies in sysvinit). > Explain. For example, all the PID file handling is working around the inability to determine via better mechanis

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:00:40PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart > > init job and/or OpenRC together with standard sysvinit > > script, how do I check for currently u

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:39:55PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart > init job and/or OpenRC together with standard sysvinit > script, how do I check for currently used init system from sysvinit > script to not start the service for a s

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Russ Allbery wrote: > Uoti Urpala writes: > > Marc Haber wrote: > >> And it is still completely inferior even to dpkg-conffile handling, > >> which has huge wishes left open as well. > > > False. The message you replied to already listed advantages over > > dpkg-conffile handling. This was also a

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-05-30 Thread Ondřej Surý
Please do. Minor is fine (any non-RC bug severity would be fine with me). Ondřej Surý On 29. 5. 2013, at 19:05, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > > With the recent setup of the parallel build infrastructure using clang > instead of gcc [1], I would like to start to report > bugs on packages fa

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ondřej Surý > Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart > init job and/or OpenRC together with standard sysvinit > script, how do I check for currently used init system from sysvinit > script to not start the service for a second time? With systemd, as long as the in

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 31 May 2013 01:53:01 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >Though, I'm really not sure that if Debian decides to adopt Systemd now, >rather than a bit later, it will influence its development, or change >anything at all upstream. Of course it won't. Upstream and Red Hat have shown many times that

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 21:05:50 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:27:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> And I am also opposing changes that will help in dropping the >> "universal" out of Debian's claim. > >Do you actually run a kernel other than Linux Actually no, but it is a ple

How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-30 Thread Ondřej Surý
Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart init job and/or OpenRC together with standard sysvinit script, how do I check for currently used init system from sysvinit script to not start the service for a second time? Is there some material on wiki.d.o I can use (and if

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 08:42:49 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Get rid of some of that complexity because it is pointless (you'll find >that much of it is working around inadequacies in sysvinit). Explain. > Get rid of >more of it by building a static configuration from the dynamic >configuration whe

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:12:58PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > development (because unlike the systemd developers, the upstart developers > > aren't trying to sell anyone a bill of goods about how their existing units > > are perf

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:45:48 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >Maybe is related to cPannel. Seems that cPannel 11.30 shipped Exim 4.69 >and 11.32 Exim 4.77 [2] Judging from the sheer amount of clueless cpanel users showing up on exim lists, this is a really big possibilty. Greetings Marc

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Thomas Goirand (z...@debian.org): > 1/ Your parents don't read mail? That is surprising to me. In this days > and age, everyone does. Yes. Out of 5 adult people in my family, all of them read their mail daily. 4 of them do it through a web interface and have absolutely no use of a mail

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Baumann
On 05/30/2013 08:06 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > FWIW, Ubuntu has done this with their backports repositories for the last two > years of releases debian-live images have this by default since squeeze too. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Monday, May 27, 2013 21:02:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> > Now that we are done with systemd for the time being, can we have the >> > flame war about replacing Exim with Postfix as the default MTA? >> > >> > Are there any objections other than "but I like i

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Sorry, what bugreport? > I do not consider backports.debian.org of same quality as debian.org so > am concerned by what you outline above, and would like to (at the least) > read up on the relevant discussion (i.e. avoid rehashing it here). I'm afraid I've expired the

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 08:29:16PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > FWIW, I don't. I think the compromise that the security team is proposing is > > much more reasonable than such an alternative. > > That compromise (which I do definitely support for wheezy) puzzles me > most for the precede

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:38:40AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > development (because unlike the systemd developers, the upstart developers > aren't trying to sell anyone a bill of goods about how their existing units > are perfect and nothing will ever need to be patched downstream). But there

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:27:13PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:16:53 +0200, Olav Vitters > wrote: > >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> The init system case is special because supporting another init script > >> system will most probably mean tha

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:56:23AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The actual proposal in the bug report is to add backports.debian.org > to the default sources.list file in the installer, but not otherwise > change anything about the backports configuration. Specifically, the > archive would remain

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 30-05-13 19:53, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/30/2013 04:46 PM, Riku Voipio wrote: >> While we are busy maintaining multiple indirection layers to >> "support user choice" > > I don't think this is what Wouter was talking about (eg, he never said > we should leave this as a choice to the user).

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2013-05-30 19:56:23) > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >> Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by > >> default > > > No. > > > If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a > > stable rel

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Uoti Urpala writes: > Marc Haber wrote: >> And it is still completely inferior even to dpkg-conffile handling, >> which has huge wishes left open as well. > False. The message you replied to already listed advantages over > dpkg-conffile handling. This was also already discussed before: > https:

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 mai 2013 15.29:22, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > > Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion > > > consistently? > > > > Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give u

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2013 03:10 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I think it makes perfect sense for us to support systemd, openrc, and > upstart, at least for the time being; I doubt we'll continue supporting > all three options until the end of times, but we don't have to do that. I very much like the idea to gi

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 10:56:23 AM Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default > > > > No. > > > > If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a > > s

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default > No. > If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a > stable release. Two issues keep getting confused when people talk about this,

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 17:07:08 +0200, Matthias Klumpp > wrote: > >So, this is not really RHEL specific, and some other non-RH software > >also has this scheme of storing config files. > > And it is still completely inferior even to dpkg-conffile handling, > which has huge wishes

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 30/05/13 13:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Thursday, May 30, 2013 01:01:46 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: >> On 30/05/13 12:27, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>> On Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:16:38 PM Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: On 29/05/13 08:18, Chris Knadle wrote: > - Exim is

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default No. If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a stable release. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing t

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-30 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 30/05/13 13:19, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Dennis van Dok wrote: >> On 26-05-13 20:02, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: Hi Dennis and everybody, somewhat related to this, I would like to know if

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/30/2013 09:29 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: >>> Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion >>> consistently? >> >> Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up packaging >> br

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:32:59PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 30/05/13 11:19, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2013 13:10:57 -0700, Russ Allbery > > wrote: > >> Using an imperative language for a descriptive purpose is a bad mismatch > >> of tools and has been ever since the practical e

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:27:43PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > Anyone knows how Multi-Arch is handled for other similar plugin > > packages, other than gkrellm2 plugins? > telepathy-mission-control-5 specifically isn't Multi-Arch, because I > didn't want to do a small transition (Mission Cont

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:35:52PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > >Please leave the FUD at the door. Writing upstart jobs is not difficult; > >while there are some gotchas currently with process lifecycle (which will be > >fixed soon), there is also very complete documentation (for thes

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : > > On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: > >[···] > >> > There is also the "kill features Red Hat does not care about" deal, > >> Do you have an example? > > Persistent naming of network interfaces. > ... is entirely optional, and can be disabled if som

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:35:07PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: > > Do you have an example? > The /etc/ /lib/ /usr/lib/ split with files overriding each other, > invented because RPM systems do not prompt the user on package upgrades > and Red Hat does not suppor

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 14:16:53 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: >On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 12:21:33PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: >> The init system case is special because supporting another init script >> system will most probably mean that all packages delivering an init >> script ($ ls /etc/init.d/ | wc -l

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 17:07:08 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >So, this is not really RHEL specific, and some other non-RH software >also has this scheme of storing config files. And it is still completely inferior even to dpkg-conffile handling, which has huge wishes left open as well. Greetings M

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 12:32:59 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >On 30/05/13 11:19, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Wed, 29 May 2013 13:10:57 -0700, Russ Allbery >> wrote: >>> Using an imperative language for a descriptive purpose is a bad mismatch >>> of tools and has been ever since the practical effect of i

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:42:28 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >Agreed,... but that also somehow indicates to me, that this would be the >more appropriate default MTA. >It will do quite securely what most people need, especially those end >user who have no clue about running mailservers at al

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:53:56 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >I think that ease of configurability is a major plus for Postfix when >compared to Exim, since a common configurations is just a few lines long. How many lines does an average update-exim4.conf.conf have? Greetings Marc --

Bug#710421: ITP: pxe-pdhcp -- ProxyDHCP server for the non-DHCP server host

2013-05-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Osamu Aoki * Package name: pxe-pdhcp Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : FURUHASHI Sadayuki * URL : http://svn.coderepos.org/share/lang/c/pxe-pdhcp/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : ProxyDHCP server

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Philip Hands
Marco d'Itri writes: > On May 30, Chris Knadle wrote: > >> There's a reason it feels like this. Postfix was designed with security in >> mind, but wasn't focused on being a general purpose MTA. > Says who? Because I was around at the time, and I remember pretty well > that the goal was to wri

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:56:02 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: >Seems the solutions are very focussed on the assumption that things >cannot be changed. E.g. programs currently send email, so email it has >to be forever. It is not a good idea to drop the way that > 90 % of programs use to deliver message

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:31:14 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >On 30-05-13 12:27, Marc Haber wrote: >> We should make local mail or other messages trivially and >> automatically visible for people who have installed Debian in NNF[1] >> compliant way, but if one has gone to length to use something >>

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Using an imperative language for a descriptive purpose is a bad >> mismatch of tools and has been ever since the practical effect of init >> scripts has become fairly standardized. > Some init scripts in Debian build dynamic configuration before the >

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:50:15PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > Do you have any reason at all to believe that these were problems with > > systemd, rather than problems in Debian configuration or mostly > > independent bugs in other software that happened to trigger under

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Wookey
+++ Simon McVittie [2013-05-30 16:27 +0100]: > The only plugins that do benefit from being Multi-Arch are those that > are loaded by more than one executable: glibc NSS modules, PAM modules, > ALSA plugins, that sort of thing. Or plugins that are used in build-depends. I don't know if this ever

Bug#710418: ITP: opendb -- PHP and MySQL based inventory application

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Schultheiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Schultheiss * Package name: opendb Version : 1.5.0.7 Upstream Author : Jason Pell * URL : http://opendb.iamvegan.net * License : GPL v2 Programming Lang: PHP Description : PHP and MySQL based inventory app

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > Chris Knadle wrote: >> I don't like the fact that the /etc/exim4/passwd.client file is in a >> plaintext format, but there are usually several such files on systems >> such that realistically we're only really "safe" as long as the >> machines we run haven't been broken into

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Simon McVittie
On 30/05/13 16:02, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely > gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their > plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine. This seems appropriate. > However, I was wondering w

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : > On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: >[···] >> > There is also the "kill features Red Hat does not care about" deal, >> Do you have an example? > Persistent naming of network interfaces. ... is entirely optional, and can be disabled if someone doesn't want it - but I can't s

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Mathieu Parent
2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : > On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: > >> (I'm afraid to feed the troll) > Hint: before accusing somebody of trolling it is a good idea to find out > who he is. I apologize. -- Mathieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread Aron Xu
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:02 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely > gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their > plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine. > > However, I was wonderin

Multi-Arch for plugin packages

2013-05-30 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I am maintaining one of the gkrellm2 plugin packages, namely gkrellm2-cpufreq. All of these gkrellm2 plugin packages install their plugins into /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins, including mine. However, I was wondering whether the plugins should actually get installed into /usr/lib/${DEB_HOST_MU

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 30, Mathieu Parent wrote: > (I'm afraid to feed the troll) Hint: before accusing somebody of trolling it is a good idea to find out who he is. > > There is also the "kill features Red Hat does not care about" deal, > Do you have an example? Persistent naming of network interfaces. > > a

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 30, Chris Knadle wrote: > There's a reason it feels like this. Postfix was designed with security in > mind, but wasn't focused on being a general purpose MTA. Says who? Because I was around at the time, and I remember pretty well that the goal was to write a sendmail replacement. And a

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 07:53 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > There's a reason it feels like this. Postfix was designed with security in > mind, but wasn't focused on being a general purpose MTA. It happens to > /work/ > pretty well in that role in many cases, though. > >http://shearer.org/MTA

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi Moritz. Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > In the future the majority of packages should thus rather be installed > through http://addons.mozilla.org instead of Debian packages. Form a security POV, I think this is really quite dangerous... actually tendency should go towards the direction that users

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:50:15PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Do you have any reason at all to believe that these were problems with > systemd, rather than problems in Debian configuration or mostly > independent bugs in other software that happened to trigger under > systemd? Whether or not syst

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 12:19 +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote: > ...which is included in mozilla. That discussion should be taken there > (indeed was[1]) as in Debian it was agreed we're not going to do better > than Mozilla at judging CAs[2]. Yeah... sure... I was just mentioning it... Given that Mozill

Re: libnss consolidation (was: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF))

2013-05-30 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 30 mai 2013 14:08, "Dennis van Dok" a écrit : > > On 30-05-13 13:16, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > > > Using only one lib for crypto (libnss) will allow to use only one > > trust certificate format > > 'Allow only one' doesn't immediately strike me as beneficial, but I see > what you mean. The dis

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Mathieu Parent wrote: > 2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : > > and the "invent a new a configuration files scheme because it better > > suits RPM and Red Hat policies" deal. > > Do you have an example? I think he's referring to the etc-overrides-lib semantics that systemd uses for configuration files. But

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-05-29 20:50, Josh Triplett wrote: As a user of sid who also maintains various systems running stable, I rely on packages like xul-ext-adblock-plus to make it easier to install specific addons systemwide. I find it much easier to install those via the Debian packaging system rather than a

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Uoti Urpala
Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > I have tried systemd, and I like the approach it has, and in a few years I > believe it has potential. But... using it to restart my computer i need to do > an hard reset (and think of how happy would I be if my computer had been a > server in a rack on the other side of

Re: default MTA

2013-05-30 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marc Haber [130530 12:39]: > While I don't consider postfix as bad as you describe, I tend to > describe Postfix as the menu in a better restaurant: A relatively > small number of sophisticated dishes which you can choose from, and > if you like them, you will be perfectly satisfied. If you wan

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion > consistently? The best browser ever; lynx. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:34:06 AM Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:36:32AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > In that case, I'd say they aren't bugs at all. It may be that a FTBFS > > with > > clang is a symptom of some underlying issue that should be addressed, but > > I >

Bug#710394: ITP: javamail -- JavaMail API reference implementation

2013-05-30 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: javamail Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Bill Shannon * URL : http://javamail.java.net * License : CDDL-1.1 | GPL-2 with Classpath Exception Programming Lang: Java Description : J

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Which web browsers would remain in stable if we applied this criterion > > consistently? > > Although that makes me very sad, if we (collectively) give up packaging > browser extensions (hence letting our users rely on thir

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 06:36:32AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In that case, I'd say they aren't bugs at all. It may be that a FTBFS with > clang is a symptom of some underlying issue that should be addressed, but I > don't think non-wishlist bugs should be filed ONLY on the basis of that >

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-30 Thread Mathieu Parent
(I'm afraid to feed the troll) 2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : > On May 30, Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> I never quite understood why people seem to think systemd upstream is >> uncooperative (well, apart from the whole non-linux porting deal, where >> their stance is completely understandable too). My expe

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 30 mai 2013 14.53:44, Florian Weimer a écrit : > * Didier Raboud: > > If we can't handle the backporting of serious security issues on top > > of our stable version (in order to maximise the avoidance of > > regressions), then maybe said software shouldn't be shipped in > > stable in the

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Didier Raboud: > If we can't handle the backporting of serious security issues on top > of our stable version (in order to maximise the avoidance of > regressions), then maybe said software shouldn't be shipped in > stable in the first place. Thoughts ? Which web browsers would remain in stable

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