Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
gregor herrmann, le Sun 13 Apr 2014 02:25:18 +0200, a écrit : > On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:34:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Here is a refreshed list of the packages that should probably use > > Architecture: linux-any, please consider using it. > > > Debian Perl Group > >libvideo-ivtv-p

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Pirate Praveen
2014-04-12 21:46 GMT+05:30, Alberto Salvia Novella : > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? Because my contributions are respected equally, in most other distributions my contributions will be treated second class, subject to wishes of managers, even those who don't con

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Shachar Shemesh writes: > On 13/04/14 05:39, Russ Allbery wrote: >> One can make a good argument that such checks are exactly what you >> should be doing. > Then the answer is very simple. Write in Java. There are a lot of reasons other than the absolute fastest performance you can possibly mus

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 13/04/14 05:39, Russ Allbery wrote: > One can make a good argument that such checks are exactly what you should > be doing. Then the answer is very simple. Write in Java. >> My understanding of things is that undefined behaviors are fairly >> common, and almost always benign. Look at the followi

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Shachar Shemesh writes: > I will point out that it is not always is possible, and is quite often > not easy. For example, the famous "undefined after NULL dereference" > would probably cause a warning every time a function uses a pointer it > was given without first validating its non-NULLness.

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-12 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 12/04/14 23:38, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >> I never did understand what people expect. gcc uses the undefined > Warn the hell out of any line of code with per-spec undefined behaviour, if > not by default, at least under -Wall. I have no ar

Re: Changelogs - was: Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:31 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > So, in order to avoid situations like these in the future, please write > proper changelogs, people! Your future self or the future maintainer > of your package will be very glad to have them. It can save you or them > lots of tim

Changelogs - was: Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/13/2014 02:25 AM, gregor herrmann wrote: > > (The git history + d/changelog don't say why I changed this in 2011, > I guess it was a similar request :)) And now you know why I am always so nitpicky about changelogs :). As someone who has been reviewing several dozen packages over the past

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 13 Apr 2014 01:34:52 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Here is a refreshed list of the packages that should probably use > Architecture: linux-any, please consider using it. > Debian Perl Group >libvideo-ivtv-perl % grep Architecture debian/control Architecture: linux-any kfreebsd-an

[dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2014-04-12 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Here is a refreshed list of the packages that should probably use Architecture: linux-any, please consider using it. Samuel Alexander Wirt libnfnetlink libnfnetlink (U) Andreas Schuldei uml-utilities (U) Anibal Monsalve Salazar apmd Ard van Breemen vlan Cyril Bruleb

Re: default messaging/VoIP client for Debian 8/Jessie

2014-04-12 Thread Toni Mueller
On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 04:07:24PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > BTW, it'd be nice to have a backport of Jitsi. Not sure how much work > that would be though (there must be lots of java dependencies...). I recently installed 2.5.5190-1 on Wheezy without much trouble, but imho, the operational i

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sat, Apr 12 2014, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? Because I could contribute. I looked at other UNIX like operating systems, and Linux, and then Debian, had the least barriers to entry for contribution. Why is being abl

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 10 Apr 2014, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I never did understand what people expect. gcc uses the undefined Warn the hell out of any line of code with per-spec undefined behaviour, if not by default, at least under -Wall. THAT would be a good start. Too bad not even gcc knows every time it h

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Alberto Salvia Novella writes: > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? Because I have some control over my work, some say in the policies that affect me, and the freedom to do things the right way, as opposed to having some manager or company decide on policy without a

Bug#744308: ITP: json-schema-validator -- JSON schema validation utility

2014-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Neil Williams * Package name: json-schema-validator Version : 2.3.1 Upstream Author : Zygmunt Krynicki * URL : https://github.com/zyga/json-schema-validator * License : LGPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#744306: ITP: bookie -- Python based delicious.com replacement

2014-04-12 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: bookie Version : 0.0 Upstream Author : Rick Harding * URL : http://www.bmark.us/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : Self-hosted bookmark management service

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Alberto Salvia Novella [2014-04-12 18:16 +0200]: > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? Because of the wide architecture support. That what was what got me involved in the first place. And I also really liked the regularity of it as a distro, from an admin/user po

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 12 April 2014 18:16, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? > For me, Debian is the best distro. That's my main reason. Also: * I use Debian for all (from netbooks, laptops, desktop, to high-demand servers). * There is a big communit

Bug#744305: ITP: rsbackup -- rsync-based backup utility

2014-04-12 Thread Matthew Vernon
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Vernon Package name: rsbackup Version : 0.4.3 Upstream Author : Richard Kettlewell URL : http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2010/rsbackup.html License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : rsync-bas

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 12 Apr 2014 18:16:22 +0200 Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Why you choose to develop in Debian over any other distribution? > My reasons are personal - I tried lots and lots of other distributions before finding that Debian suits the way I want a distribution to work better than any of

Why Debian

2014-04-12 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
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Bug#744298: ITP: python-convoy -- WSGI app for loading multiple files in the same request

2014-04-12 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: python-convoy Version : 0.2.4 Upstream Author : Canonical Javascripters * URL : http://launchpad.net/convoy/ * License : AGPLv3 Programming Lang: Python Description : WSGI app for l

Bug#744293: ITP: python-breadability -- Reworked Python Readability parsing library

2014-04-12 Thread Jelmer Vernooij
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jelmer Vernooij * Package name: python-breadability Version : 0.1.2 Upstream Author : Rick Harding * URL : http://github.com/bookieio/breadability * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Reworked P

Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-12 Thread alberto fuentes
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >> Some numbers with my free interpretation from ubuntu popcon: >> unity is installed in 605_209 machines, but its used regularly only by >> 46_210 >> >> Thats a very low number by all metrics for a default desktop [0]. >> People dislike it.

Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-12 Thread Fabio Rafael da Rosa
Em 12-04-2014 08:15, Jonas Smedegaard escreveu: Quoting alberto fuentes (2014-04-12 12:23:46) I had to leave gnome with gnome3 because it disrupted my workflow so much i couldn't cope In my case I like shiny but not at the cost of useful. xfce4 felt like a less polished gnome2 but at least it

Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-12 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting alberto fuentes (2014-04-12 12:23:46) > I had to leave gnome with gnome3 because it disrupted my workflow so > much i couldn't cope > > In my case I like shiny but not at the cost of useful. > > xfce4 felt like a less polished gnome2 but at least it didn't disrupt > my workflow. I am i

the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

2014-04-12 Thread alberto fuentes
tl;dr go to [0] On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote: > My vote would be on GNOME 3 classic for now, but XFCE with sensible and > visually appealing defaults would do it for me too. You are all facing different experiences with end-users because end-users are probably differe