Re: docbook-xsl: why only one version ?

2013-06-01 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi Jerome, On 02-06-13 06:30, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have to deal with docbook-xsl for one of my package. > I am not familiar with docbook-xsl stuff, so my question may sound naive. > It appears that the upstream stuff play with docbook-xsl version 1.75.2 , > but not 1.76.1 : only the last one i

docbook-xsl: why only one version ?

2013-06-01 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have to deal with docbook-xsl for one of my package. I am not familiar with docbook-xsl stuff, so my question may sound naive. It appears that the upstream stuff play with docbook-xsl version 1.75.2 , but not 1.76.1 : only the last one is available on Wheezy, so why only one version

Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-06-01 Thread Daniel Hartwig
On 2 June 2013 03:10, Russ Allbery wrote: > It would probably be a good idea for the installer to add commented-out > sources.list lines for the main archive, even if the installation is done > off-line. (Assuming that it doesn't, but Nikolas's experience seems to > indicate that it doesn't.) >

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 15:06 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, May 31, 2013 07:15:36, Marc Haber wrote: [...] > > SMTP with client certificates is possible, but I > > have only seen this two times in 15 years of running E-Mail servers. > > Yes I'd expect this to be rare, and I can't recall us

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Miroslaw Baran
On Sun 02 Jun 2013 01:12:43 Uoti Urpala wrote: > Also, these issues were already covered in the thread a year ago (and > your post doesn't look like you'd have understood the arguments > there but disagreed). Your quality advocacy work for upstart is almost as good as Rob Weir's incessant effort

Bug#710740: ITP: NoVoHT -- A lightweight persistent in memory hash table

2013-06-01 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package Name: novoht Version: 0.4 Upstream Author: Kevin Brandstatter URL: https://github.com/kev40293/NoVoHT License: Apache 2.0 Description: A lightweight persistent in memory hash table signature.asc Description:

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
Svante Signell wrote: > On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 22:57 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > Debian regularly removes old buggy packages that few people use. Are you > > saying that is wrong, and for the sake of freedom people should be given > > the ability to keep installing them even if few actually want t

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On 30-05-13 22:36, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > While there is room for reasonable disagreement about the relative > > benefits of different configuration setups, "completely inferior even to > > dpkg-conffile handling" is not part of any reasonable disagreement. That > > claim i

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
In data sabato 01 giugno 2013 22.02.25, Uoti Urpala ha scritto: > So, to sum it up: Upstream systemd is ready for production and suitable > to be chosen as the default Debian init. Can you back up your claim somehow? > You mixed up these two things (you also talked > about use in Fedora, which ob

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 22:57 +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > > wrote: > Why would kFreeBSD particularly matter for freedom? As opposed to any > other random piece of software? > > Debian regularly removes old buggy

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-06-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > The above covers the vast majority of packages, as it is very rare for > any build system to need config.sub or config.guess and _not_ use GNU > autoconf. The exception does not require that the configuration script generated by Autoconf is actually used for anyth

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 09:44:05PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: FWIW, I happen to agree with Marc. Having everything in /etc makes it *much* clearer what the actual current configuration is; it also means that if the defaults change on upgrade, your environment doesn't suddenly start acting diff

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Roger Lynn
On 31/05/13 07:50, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > A utility to scan syslog and convey important information to the user > would be much more useful than configuring all mailers in Debian to read > root's local mail by default. I know how to redirect root's mail > elsewhere, thank you for not makin

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: > >What's the point in doing that work > >when, in the end, hardly anyone is using it? > > Freedom. It is not free to take away freedom just because too few > people have chosen to exercise freedom. Why wo

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 30-05-13 22:36, Uoti Urpala wrote: > 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 >>

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Ondřej Surý
On 1. 6. 2013, at 16:48, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > wrote: >> What's the point in doing that work >> when, in the end, hardly anyone is using it? > > Freedom. It is not free to take away freedom just because too few > people have chosen t

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 20:02:42, Russ Allbery wrote: > Chris Knadle writes: > > On Wednesday, May 29, 2013 15:46:15, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That's exactly the point, and is why I would prefer not to write those > >> notifications into a file that no one ever looks at. (Which is why I > >> d

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Ondřej Surý
Ondřej Surý On 1. 6. 2013, at 11:59, Marc Haber wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:33:22 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> On May 31, Jeff Epler wrote: >>> The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't >>> even exist as debian users is one of the most frustra

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, June 01, 2013 05:34:22, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Russ Allbery > > > Basically, what we're looking for here is the equivalent of a check > > engine light (except, of course, with better user-visible diagnostics > > available). That's what the end user actually wants: something clear

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > You have the context wrong here. "considering systemd as a default init" > > is too vague. > Wikipedia says: A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or a > value > automatically assigned to a software application, computer program or device, > outside of us

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > For e-mail coming in from other clients, with the local exim acting as > a server? > Certificates are usually only used in E-Mail when a server authenticates > itself to a client before the client sends its authentication data. SMTP > with client certificates is possible, bu

Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Nikolas Kallis writes: >> Another thing I am pissed off about is the lack of a graphical >> text-editor being included in Debian 7.0. The last time I checked, my >> calendar said 2013, and as so, would not expect a text-editor not being >> included in a desktop-environment

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, May 31, 2013 07:15:36, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:51:04 -0400, Chris Knadle > > wrote: > >For Exim, the one thing I would want to change would be to ship a > >configuration that by default created an SSL certificate and enabled > >MAIN_TLS_ENABLE to enable TLS SMTP tran

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-28 13:05:25 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 12:13 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > Being able to send outgoing mail, and to handle local (such as > > SMTP rejects or notifications from system daemons) seems plenty > > useful to me. > > Most clients (apart mayb

Re: DM upload permission question

2013-06-01 Thread Arno Töll
Hi, On 01.06.2013 16:56, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Uploader: Sven Eckelmann Uploader is you, not "uploader" as in "person you want to grant upload rights". That's also used for mail confirmation I believe. Having that said, I'm no ftpmaster so I don't know what precisely went wrong (or if it wo

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Goirand: > Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by default > (there's already a patch available for that, not sure if it has been > applied to d-i yet). Then when installing a desktop (since backports > are now fully part of Debian), we could provide browsers from the

Bug#710698: ITP: libsdl2-image -- Image loading library for SDL2

2013-06-01 Thread Felix Geyer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian SDL packages maintainers * Package name: libsdl2-image Version : 2.0.0~rc1 Upstream Author : Sam Lantinga * URL : http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL_image/ * License : zlib/linpng Programming Lang: C Description

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/01/2013 04:48 PM, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: What's the point in doing that work when, in the end, hardly anyone is using it? Freedom. It is not free to take away freedom just because too few people have chosen to exercise free

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:42:33 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >What's the point in doing that work >when, in the end, hardly anyone is using it? Freedom. It is not free to take away freedom just because too few people have chosen to exercise freedom. Greetings Marc -- ---

DM upload permission question

2013-06-01 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am trying to give Sven Eckelmann dm upload permission on exactimage. Here what I did 1. read [1] 2. write a text file: $ cat malat-1.dak-commands Archive: ftp.debian.org Uploader: Sven Eckelmann Action: dm Fingerprint: 522D7163831C73A635D12FE5EC371482956781AF Allow: exactimage T

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> You have the context wrong here. "considering systemd as a default init" > is too vague. Wikipedia says: A default, in computer science, refers to a setting or a value automatically assigned to a software application, computer program or device, outside of user intervention. What's vague abou

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Donnerstag, den 30.05.2013, 22:29 +0100 schrieb 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 i

Re: socket activation interface

2013-06-01 Thread Jérôme Bartand
Helmut Grohne subdivi.de> writes: > Following the thread, one can observe that communication between Lennart > and Scott is not ideal. This is just sad, and I am not to blame either > of them. Maybe we can get both to a table now by mediating the > discussion? Scott James Remnant does no longer w

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread Uoti Urpala
Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > W dniu sob, cze 1, 2013 o 12:52 ,nadawca John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > napisał: > > On 06/01/2013 12:24 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not > > something to hold against upstart), but there are so many

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/01/2013 01:51 PM, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: I believe there was a counter example of using CUPS where unless you really start it, other machines won't discover it via avahi and you won't be able to print to a networked printer. One exception does not mean that all daemons should be started

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
W dniu sob, cze 1, 2013 o 12:52 ,nadawca John Paul Adrian Glaubitz napisał: On 06/01/2013 12:24 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not something to hold against upstart), but there are so many daemons that need to be started after the network

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-06-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-31 08:52:37 +, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: > [...] > > This would *enable* users to install software from backports if it either > > didn't exist in stable at all or if they explicitly requested it from > > backports, but would not install such softwar

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/01/2013 11:59 AM, Marc Haber wrote: Before saying things like that, please file a GR removing the "universal" from Debian's claim. Calm down. Debian has been called "universal" long before the arrival of the non-Linux kernels. And, in fact, Marco and Joss have a point that if hardly anyon

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 06/01/2013 12:24 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not something to hold against upstart), but there are so many daemons that need to be started after the network has been configured that it should be easy to do this. For example, most daemons b

Re: libnss consolidation

2013-06-01 Thread Arto Jantunen
Brian May writes: > On 31 May 2013 20:19, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > >> Gnutls is really crappy about suid >> see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00298.html > > > 2+ years later or 2 Debian releases later, I would have hoped these issues > would be, somehow, magically, fixed by n

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Roger Lynn > I prefer to be notified of changes to configuration files during upgrades so > that I know which configurations need updating, rather than just hoping that > the old config will work with the updated package and missing out on any new > options silently introduced in a master conf

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 juin 2013 00:44 CEST, Steve Langasek  : >> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo) >> stop on runlevel [016] > > FYI, it's strongly recommended to use 'start on runlevel [2345]' here as the > start condition, for several reasons: > > - The 'filesystem' events are one-time e

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 31 May 2013 16:33:22 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On May 31, Jeff Epler wrote: >> The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't >> even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this >> whole thread. >I'm sorry for the three kfreeb

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-06-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 31 May 2013 14:08:01 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le jeudi 30 mai 2013 à 22:25 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : >> >Do you actually run a kernel other than Linux >> >> Actually no, but it is a pleasure to see Debian move towards this >> freedom with every new release. > >I disagree with t

Re: default MTA

2013-06-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > Basically, what we're looking for here is the equivalent of a check engine > light (except, of course, with better user-visible diagnostics available). > That's what the end user actually wants: something clear and visible > indicating that something is wrong, which they can dri

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-06-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:44:53PM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote: > cat > php5-fpm.service << EOF > [Unit] > Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager > After=syslog.target network.target Small nitpick here: Specifying syslog.target in an After is completely unnecessary and counterproductive. At the

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

2013-06-01 Thread Michael Stapelberg
Hi Ondřej, Ondřej Surý writes: > 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 som

socket activation interface

2013-06-01 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, Jun 01, 2013 at 03:53:15AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > [...] I remember even emailing the Upstart guys about > that, but I never got any reply. This was a long long time before Upstart > added socket activation. This appears to be the discussion starting with this mail: https://list