Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Andreas Beckmann , 2013-11-27, 17:13: Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that. But what is required for preseeding is to provide a database to debconf for one-time use. Since there is a cache, it can be used for that, but there is no reason that this provided database has to persist after the ques

Bug#730677: ITP: libdesktop-agnostic -- Desktop-agnostic library for GLib-based projects

2013-11-27 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org This package is a dependency of Avant-Window-Navigator that I'm going to package too. Package name: libdesktop-agnostic Version: 0.3.94 Upstream Author: Upstream Maintainer: Povilas Kanapickas UR

Bug#730676: ITP: avant-window-navigator -- MacOS X like panel for GNOME

2013-11-27 Thread Povilas Kanapickas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org The upstream of this package has died roughly two years ago. Subsequently the package has been removed from Debian. I've recently stepped in as the upstream maintainer and would like to see AWN return back to Debian and U

Bug#730674: ITP: piwik -- Open Source Web Analytics Software

2013-11-27 Thread Shawn Landden
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Shawn Landden * Package name: piwik Version : 1.12 Upstream Author : Matthieu Aubry * URL : http://piwik.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : Free Web Analytics Software Piwik is the Leading S

Re: How many users for /usr/bin/view ?

2013-11-27 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 03:54:23PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Perhaps this is just because I'm an old UNIX person, but I would expect > the view command to launch vi in read-only mode. So I'm in favor of > dropping linking it to see. Oh good, I'm not the only one. /etc/alternatives/view -> /usr/

Re: How many users for /usr/bin/view ?

2013-11-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy writes: > Following a suggestion in http://bugs.debian.org/457898, the > mime-support packages links /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/see via the > alternatives system, since the vim package also provides /usr/bin/view > in such a way. > These two ‘view’ commands do not provide the same

How many users for /usr/bin/view ?

2013-11-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, Following a suggestion in http://bugs.debian.org/457898, the mime-support packages links /usr/bin/view to /usr/bin/see via the alternatives system, since the vim package also provides /usr/bin/view in such a way. These two ‘view’ commands do not provide the same functions, which trigger

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Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:39:50AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > Debconf actively overwriting values is slightly different from it giving > > you a wrong default which it then allows you to set to the desired value > > again. The former is overwriting, the latter is just very ann

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 05:13:55PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > 1) manually configure $package using custom values > 2) rm -rf /var/cache/debconf > 3) DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive dpkg-reconfigure $package ... > step 1 is the difficult part (someone needs to create custom > preseeding for eve

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2013-11-27 16:25, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Ah yes, I hadn't thought of that. But what is required for preseeding > is to provide a database to debconf for one-time use. Since there is a > cache, it can be used for that, but there is no reason that this > provided database has to persist after the q

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Bas Wijnen wrote: > Debconf actively overwriting values is slightly different from it giving > you a wrong default which it then allows you to set to the desired value > again. The former is overwriting, the latter is just very annoying. > > Then again, with debconf's priority scheme, it may well

Bug#730638: ITP: cloudcompare -- 3D point cloud and mesh processing software

2013-11-27 Thread Wookey
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wookey * Package name: cloudcompare Version : 2.5.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Girardeau-Montaut * URL : http://www.danielgm.net/cc/ * License : GPL 2.0+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : 3D point cloud and mesh

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 07:10:23AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > (1) > > > It's not about overwriting. > > (2) > > > The point is that debconf will use its own > > cache for defaults, which means that running dpkg-reconfigure and then > > pressing enter on all but the thing yo

Bug#730634: ITP: django-conneg -- Framework for content-negotiated views in Django

2013-11-27 Thread Olivier Berger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Berger * Package name: django-conneg Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Oxford University Computing Services * URL : https://github.com/ox-it/django-conneg * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: sysvinit: moving the contents out of the Essential: yes package?

2013-11-27 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 27/11/13 11:49, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Then I don't understand why on 'multiple' page they say sysvinit+openrc > is infeasible. I was referring to the sysvinit program/package, which I think is made obsolete by OpenRC; the original SysV init scripts could still be used by OpenRC. It is in

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Joey Hess
Bas Wijnen wrote: (1) > It's not about overwriting. (2) > The point is that debconf will use its own > cache for defaults, which means that running dpkg-reconfigure and then > pressing enter on all but the thing you're interested in changing should > not make any changes on those items, but doe

Re: sysvinit: moving the contents out of the Essential: yes package?

2013-11-27 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 18:42:43 +0800 Thomas Goirand wrote: > With the above, it's easy to switch from one to the other. Well, that is > before the mess with the version-depends on sysv-rc introduced by the > debhelper thing for upstart, which messed-up a few things... I hope many > packages have be

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-27 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 12:38:38AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > (Citation needed.) > > > > http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=db_get+path%3A.*config%24 > > If the presence of db_get in a config script was always a bug, then I > [cw]oud modify debconf to not allow db_get in