Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 11:53 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to >> testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > >> I generally dist-upgrade my primary co

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > We're talking about an upgrade from one release to the other here, with many intrusive changes (not just systemd). If you do that upgrade not in

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > I, for one, would be highly displeased if a routine dist-upgrade to > testing required me to reboot to avoid having things break. > I generally dist-upgrade my primary computer to testing about once a > week, give or take, but I don't reboot it more often than once a month

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/03/2014 01:40 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Glaser: >>> Can we get over this now and start making Jessie the most awesome >>> stable release we've ever prepared together? >> >> To do that, it MUST work without systemd, if a

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 03/07/14 22:50, David Weinehall wrote: > Why would the NSA take even the slightest risk of discovery > when they could put a backdoor in a driver for a piece of hardware that > has full access to your system? Or on the firmware of your HDD/SDD: http://s3.eurecom.fr/~zaddach/docs/Recon14_HDD.pd

Work-needing packages report for Jul 4, 2014

2014-07-03 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: 586 (new: 10) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 137 (new: 0) Total number of packages reques

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Matthias Urlichs writes: >> Please respect our decision to stay away from systemd and still be >> Debian users. If possible, please, don't resist changes that make our >> lives easier. >> > *Sigh*. > > The problem is not that anybody resists such changes. I disagree. People *do* in fact res

Bug#753655: ITP: node-ytdl-core -- YouTube video downloader Node.js module

2014-07-03 Thread Andrew Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Kelley X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-ytdl-core Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Roly Fentanes (https://github.com/fent) * URL : https://github.com/fent/node-ytdl-core * License :

Bug#753654: ITP: node-jstream -- Continously reads in JSON and outputs JavaScript objects

2014-07-03 Thread Andrew Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Kelley X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-jstream Version : 0.2.7 Upstream Author : Roly Fentanes (https://github.com/fent) * URL : https://github.com/fent/node-jstream * License : Exp

Bug#753652: ITP: node-clarinet -- evented streaming JSON parser

2014-07-03 Thread Andrew Kelley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Kelley X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-clarinet Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Nuno Job (http://nunojob.com/) * URL : https://github.com/dscape/clarinet * License : BSD Progra

Re: multiarch: arch dependent header file path choice

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 28.06.2014 19:44, schrieb Osamu Aoki: > Hi, > > The path for the arch dependent header file seems to have several options. > > 1) /usr/include//*.h > 2) /usr/include///*.h > 3) /usr/lib///include/*.h > > I would like to know rationale for each choice, especially between 2 and 3. 1) has th

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 03.07.2014 18:45, schrieb Joey Hess: > This thread seems to be discussing the wrong problems[1]. > > We currently have the problem that systemd is still not installed by > default by debootstrap, despite the tech ctte decision being made months > ago. It's not clear what the right solution to

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 11:25:36AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [snip] > If the NSA are going to hide back-doors in open source projects (a rather > dubious idea to start with, given how difficult it is and how much social > blowback there would be when such a thing was inevitably discovered), they >

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13626 March 1977, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2014, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >> And should we open the archive for a series of "i hate $tool, i never >> want it" packages, where do we stop? In theory we could end up with a >> load of them. > Joerg, please be reasonable. I entirely am,

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Alexander Pushkin: > It's core developers *Its. I think we can do without (quite unfounded, IMHO) insinuations that systemd is somehow infected with an NSA-sponsored backdoor or two, thank you very much. > Please respect our decision to stay away from systemd and still be Debian > users. I

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now

2014-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Alexander Pushkin writes: > For some of us there will never be an awesome Debian release that at > it's core contains systemd. It's core developers, Lennart Poettering and > Kay Sievers, work for a company that has multi-billion dollar contracts > with NSA. It is your choice to assume good faith

Bug#753641: ITP: liblinux-pid-perl -- wrapper around the getpid() and getppid() C functions

2014-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: liblinux-pid-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Rafael Garcia-Suarez * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Linux-Pid * Li

Bug#753639: ITP: libtest-requiresinternet-perl -- module to easily test network connectivity

2014-07-03 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libtest-requiresinternet-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Mark Allen * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Require

Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Alexander Pushkin
Didier, Hello. > The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact > that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in > modern desktop environments (fact which is rightfully reflected in our > dependencies tree). > Can we get over this now and start ma

Re: sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > A lot of Debian systems even run without dbus! > Yeah. So? systemd doesn't force you to run a dbus daemon. > No, there just has not been any challenge that met the form and > other requirements… and I am at a bit of loss at what to do here. > You get to do the same thing

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Joey Hess
This thread seems to be discussing the wrong problems[1]. We currently have the problem that systemd is still not installed by default by debootstrap, despite the tech ctte decision being made months ago. It's not clear what the right solution to that is; should debootstrap special-case systemd o

Bug#753626: ITP: python-musicpd -- An MPD (Music Player Daemon) client library written in pure Python3

2014-07-03 Thread Geoff
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Geoff * Package name: python-musicpd Version : 0.4.1 Upstream Author : Kaliko Jack * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-musicpd * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : An MPD (Music Player

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
>Yet I didn't see any proposal for a "consolekit-must-die" package= Must be because most people did not even get consolekit installed. Or because it was not that intrusive? (People "in the know" avoided *kit for a long time already anyway.) bye, //mirabilos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 03 juillet 2014 à 07:36 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > You will never get xfce via an indirect 4-step dependency chain, > but systemd comes in due to being the first alternative > with lots of packages. Just like ConsoleKit used to. For the *exact* same reasons. Yet I didn’t see an

sysvinit is still here, and here to stay for jessie (was Re: systemd is here to stay, get over it now)

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact > that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in > modern desktop environments (fact which is rightfully reflected in our Eh… you know… these are not a

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 05:01:13PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:04:46AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have > > fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) > > Would you feel

Re: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-07-03 Thread David Weinehall
On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 12:04:46AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I don't think so. I think it encourages to be more easy going, and have > fun, but never mind. Let's keep Debian boring^W^Wportland weird. :) Would you feel the same if someone were to, say, upload a "hurd-must-die" package? Kind

systemd is here to stay, get over it now (was: Re: Pinning vs. conflicting)

2014-07-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Folks, Le jeudi, 3 juillet 2014, 14.20:24 Juliusz Chroboczek a écrit : > Isn't the proper solution to add blacklisting support to dpkg, then? The proper solution is to stop trying to hide ourselves from to the fact that some sort of systemd interfaces have been made unavoidable in modern deskto

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting

2014-07-03 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Thu, 03 Jul 2014 14:20:24 +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > > You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. > > >>> Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. > > >> Don't synaptic and/or whatever honor these pins too? > > > I have no idea about synaptic,

RE:python-pyqtgraph -- Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python

2014-07-03 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
Thanks a lot for this package. > I would like to maintain inside Debian Python Modules Team, > this package is relevant since is needed by the new binwalk release > (don't know if other packages needs it) I know at least about two package that could be interested by this dependency. pyfai and in

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting

2014-07-03 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. >>> Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. >> Don't synaptic and/or whatever honor these pins too? > I have no idea about synaptic, but there’s e.g. cupt (which > works as apt replacement, but probably (didn’t c

ITP: python-pyqtgraph -- Scientific Graphics and GUI Library for Python

2014-07-03 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gianfranco Costamagna * Package name    : python-pyqtgraph   Version : 0.9.8   Upstream Author : Luke Campagnola * URL : http://luke.campagnola.me/code/pyqtgraph * License : MIT   Programming Lang: Python   Description : Sci

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Thorsten Glaser: >> >> You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. >> Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. >Don't synaptic and/or whatever honor these pins too? I have no idea about synaptic, but there’s e.g. cupt (which works as apt

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting

2014-07-03 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > >> You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. > > Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. > Don't synaptic and/or whatever honor these pins too? > Right. Furthermore, pinning can be used by the local admin, > without namespacing pin prio

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting

2014-07-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. Simply because apt is not the only way to install packages. > - conflicting packages are honoured by dpkg, unlike pinning; > - a package can conflict with multiple packages, whil

Re: Pinning vs. conflicting [was: How to avoid stealth installation...]

2014-07-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 iul 14, 00:24:44, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > You have not yet explained why apt pinning is not enough. > > I'd appreciate an explanation too. I've inserted in my apt/preferences > file the incantation given by Vitali F. (to whom thanks) at the very > beginning of this thread, and it

Re: How to avoid stealth installation of systemd?

2014-07-03 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Charles Plessy (2014-07-03 03:14:21) > may I suggest the Blends framework to those who want metapackages that > influence what is installed by default on their system ? > > Currently, one of the main limits of the Blends framework is that it > works mostly by installing metapackages afte