Re: Keeping feature requests and other non-real bugs in Debian's BTS?

2013-08-31 Thread Ben Finney
Jose Luis Rivas writes: > […] lots of feature-requests bugs which were already sent to upstream > but haven't been fixed and are there taking dust. In what sense are they gathering dust? What problem is it causing you for the reports to stay in the BTS? > Should we keep them? Cant I just close

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 22:22 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:44:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Funny that you ask. What's the usual competitor for ZFS? > > > btrfs is included in stock kernels, doesn't take massive amounts of > > > memory, > > > and has a different

Keeping feature requests and other non-real bugs in Debian's BTS?

2013-08-31 Thread Jose Luis Rivas
Hi, I would like to keep as clean as possible the BTS of my packages. With `rtorrent` particularly I have found lots of feature-requests bugs which were already sent to upstream but haven't been fixed and are there taking dust. Should we keep them? Cant I just close them since are no Debian-speci

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-31 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:44:21AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Funny that you ask. What's the usual competitor for ZFS? > > btrfs is included in stock kernels, doesn't take massive amounts of memory, > > and has a different approach to deduplication. > > and is slower than any of its competit

Re: System resume issues

2013-08-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 21:02 +0200, Rodolfo García Peñas wrote: [...] > Possible solution: > > - Create a new package (for example, resume-base). I still don't see why a new package is needed. I suggested linux-base and you said 'uswsusp doesn't need the kernel package (you can boot from a floppy

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 04:12:11PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > I'm curious why there's no apparent appetite for hdfs / solr / etc. I don't know how far regex matching is with solr these days. This implementation is AFAIK based on [1]. But then the tool exists and would need to be thrown away co

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-31 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> "Upgrading is easy" is not really a valid retort. Though it does mitigate > the cost, it does not eliminate it. Nobody wants to spend their automation > budget on making upgrading easy enough to do on a whim. There are plenty > of other concerns that automation must address that have nothing to d

Re: How git performs when you throw all of Debian at it

2013-08-31 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:40:08AM +0200, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Luca Filipozzi writes: > > Why do you say that when you haven't even asked? > Because I thought the answer was going to be “not in the Linux kernel, > no chance”. We also run kfreebsd, with some challenge, but we have it. > >

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 27/08/13 14:32, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >> What do you do with the 1 year of support Debian currently gives to >> oldstable? It's also 1 year you stopped using that version, so no >> technical challenge either. > > There does need to be

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-31 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> > IMHO the Security Team should not act as fixers themselves but more as >> > proxies, passing information about a security issue to the maintainer of >> > the package. >> >> And

Bug#721439: ITP: golang-openldap-dev -- OpenLDAP client integration for Go, using cgo.

2013-08-31 Thread Tonnerre Lombard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tonnerre Lombard * Package name: golang-openldap-dev Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : Marc Quinton * URL : https://github.com/mqu/openldap/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Go Description : OpenLDAP client integr