Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:24:00PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > It appears that the appropriate resolution of #769106 [1] is to add a new > pre-depends on python-minimal in python. > > This issue at hand is that at the time python2.7-minimal is configured, > python > is unpacked, but python

Bug#770531: ITP: ruby-sidetiq -- recurring jobs for Sidekiq

2014-11-21 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-sidetiq Version : 0.6.3 Upstream Author : Tobias Svensson * URL : https://github.com/tobiassvn/sidetiq * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Ruby Description : recurring job

Re: systemd breaking display manager - no way to force?

2014-11-21 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-11-22 2:53 GMT+01:00 Norbert Preining : > Hi Andrei, > >> - purge lxdm (remove might do it as well, but just for good measure) >> - reconfigure lightdm (to make sure display-manager.service symlink >> points to lightdm.service) > > Yes, indeed, there is a bug in the service file shipped by l

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Noel Torres wrote: > I do not understand, then, how this is different from what sysvinit's > mountall.sh does (or at least what I understand it does). The difference is that it appears to ignore the exit code of mount calls, meaning it acts as if everything in fst

Re: systemd breaking display manager - no way to force?

2014-11-21 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Andrei, > - purge lxdm (remove might do it as well, but just for good measure) > - reconfigure lightdm (to make sure display-manager.service symlink > points to lightdm.service) Yes, indeed, there is a bug in the service file shipped by lxdm which breaks all other dms. Removing and hand adj

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Noel Torres writes: > Many thanks > I do not understand, then, how this is different from what sysvinit's > mountall.sh does (or at least what I understand it does). As I understand it, sysvinit didn't care whether mountall.sh succeeded or failed. So even if a bunch of mounts failed, it went

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-21 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 09:45:19PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 17 novembre 2014 à 21:20 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > It’s not because the resolution is wrong, either. Of course, my opinion > > is that it is wrong, and that it is going to rain fire on us when > > upgraded syst

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-21 Thread Noel Torres
On Thursday, 20 de November de 2014 20:44:17 Simon McVittie escribió: > On 20/11/14 19:06, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 de November de 2014 17:53:27 Marco d'Itri escribió: > >> On Nov 20, Sam Hartman wrote: > >>> The first issue (fstab now fatally blocks boot) is something the > >>> syst

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 21 novembre 2014 17:34 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh >  : > >> I thought there was a flag bit you could set on x86 that causes > >> unaligned access to trap there too. > > > > 1. CR0.AM must be set. > > > > 2. Ask For The Pain! > > > > i386: > >

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 21 novembre 2014 17:34 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh  : >> I thought there was a flag bit you could set on x86 that causes >> unaligned access to trap there too. > > 1. CR0.AM must be set. > > 2. Ask For The Pain! > > i386: > __asm__("pushf\norl $0x4,(%esp)\npopf"); > > x86-64: >

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from > user-space, and which ones (ca

Bug#770509: ITP: uci2wb -- XBoard protocol adapter for chess/shogi/xianqi engines speaking USI/UCCI/UCI-XQ

2014-11-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yann Dirson * Package name: uci2wb Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : H.G. Muller * URL : http://hgm.nubati.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=uci2wb.git;a=summary * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : XBoard pro

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > Bob Proulx writes: > > > > Maybe I am missing a better alternative? > > > > > > update-rc.d disable > > > > No. That is too late. By the time you are disabling something it has > > already been installed and started in postinst scripts. Usi

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Sam Hartman wrote: > I thought there was a flag bit you could set on x86 that causes > unaligned access to trap there too. 1. CR0.AM must be set. 2. Ask For The Pain! i386: __asm__("pushf\norl $0x4,(%esp)\npopf"); x86-64: __asm__("pushf\norl $0x4,(%rsp)\npop

Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail

2014-11-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/22/2014 12:45 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Of course. That's what I have and the Jessie bootlogd does not give > messages on both consoles. > > Or was this bit of openstack support not pushed to jessie? > > Thanks > > Michal This is unrelated to OpenStack. And yes, I did work on the issu

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philip Hands: > Is there any way this isn't going to be an enormous surprise to people > that are used to the way that Debian usually treats /etc? > Well, instead of "edit /etc/default/FOO and search for the flag to disable the daemon" or the programmatic equivalent of "add a bunch of symlink

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Guillem Jover
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 18:01:11 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Felipe Sateler , 2014-11-21, 14:04: > >Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was trying to > >fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience with liblo shows > >that other architectures are just fine (or at

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On 21/11/14 13:21, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Simon McVittie wrote: >> failing to start up on armel due to unaligned memory accesses. lzo2 has >> a cpp macro, LZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED which can be defined to stop it doing >> "clever" things with casting pointers. > > Please define t

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Julian Taylor
On 21.11.2014 18:01, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Felipe Sateler , 2014-11-21, 14:04: >> Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was >> trying to fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience >> with liblo shows that other architectures are just fine (or at least >> are jus

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On 21/11/14 17:07, Philip Hands wrote: > Is there any way this isn't going to be an enormous surprise to people > that are used to the way that Debian usually treats /etc? I do get your point; editing the (underlying file for the) .service is unnecessary and undesirable for systemd, and if you bli

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Felipe Sateler , 2014-11-21, 14:04: >> >> Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was trying to >> fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience with liblo shows >> that other architectures are just fine (or at

Bug#770489: ITP: librewms -- simple WMS 1.3.0 interactive GUI client

2014-11-21 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: librewms Version : 1.0.0a Upstream Author : Alessandro Furieri * URL : https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/librewms/ * License : GPL-3.0+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : simple WMS 1

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson writes: > Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"): >> Ian Jackson writes: >> > I don't know how much etckeeper users use modifying (rather than >> > recording) git operations, but I can imagine that this approach might >> > easily result in etckeeper's git fighting with dpkg.

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Hands
Simon McVittie writes: > On 21/11/14 14:04, Philip Hands wrote: >> A quick glance at the manual leads me to try: >> >> systemctl disable gdm3 >> >> (and ... gdm, and a few other things) -- none of which work. > > Display managers are unusual here; they're an exception to the usual > "enabledn

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Felipe Sateler , 2014-11-21, 14:04: Sparc is definitely not ok. For evidence, see #721617, liblo was trying to fetch a double from a 4-byte aligned address. Experience with liblo shows that other architectures are just fine (or at least are just slower) with this type of unalignment. IME, s

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"): > Ian Jackson writes: > > I don't know how much etckeeper users use modifying (rather than > > recording) git operations, but I can imagine that this approach might > > easily result in etckeeper's git fighting with dpkg. > > How so? I mean, if you

Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail

2014-11-21 Thread Michal Suchanek
On 21 November 2014 06:38, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 11/19/2014 06:14 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> On 18 November 2014 00:52, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> On 11/18/2014 03:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote: With current sysvinit the serial console is also used as main but sysvinit-core d

Bug#770480: ITP: librasterlite2 -- library for huge raster coverages using a SpatiaLite DBMS

2014-11-21 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: librasterlite2 Version : 1.0.0~rc0 Upstream Author : Alessandro Furieri * URL : https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/librasterlite2/ * License : MPL-1.1 or GPL-2.0+ or LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lan

Bug#770475: ITP: ruby-ice-cube -- ruby date recurrence library

2014-11-21 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-ice-cube Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Author : John Crepezzi * URL : http://seejohncode.com/ice_cube/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : ruby date recurrence lib

Re: Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Eric Valette: I just mentioned that naively combining User=$TOTO or ${TOTO} TOTO > being defined in an default/package file parsed by EnvironmentFile= > does not seem to work as documented in man pages (seen the very same > question being asked on various distro mailing list without > definitiv

Re: Re: Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Eric Valette: There has been a good and valuable effort trying to split original > upstream packages provided init system scripts by debian developers > into /etc/default/X and /etc/init.d/X file and storing most commonly > changed sysv init options in the default file part (including start > o

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Wookey
+++ Leif Lindholm [2014-11-21 14:00 +]: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > > known/defined/designed to be OK with unal

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Eric Valette
On 11/21/2014 03:26 PM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Eric Valette: >> There has been a good and valuable effort trying to split original >> upstream packages provided init system scripts by debian developers >> into /etc/default/X and /etc/init.d/X file and storing most commonly >> changed s

Re: Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Russ Allbery: Yeah, this seems like the right solution to me too. Drop a > configuration fragment in /etc/systemd that overrides the user and > group and then don't touch it again. I refer you to footnote #85 in that patched document that I just sent to you. (-: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On 21/11/14 14:04, Philip Hands wrote: > A quick glance at the manual leads me to try: > > systemctl disable gdm3 > > (and ... gdm, and a few other things) -- none of which work. Display managers are unusual here; they're an exception to the usual "enabledness" stuff. Normally, a service is e

Bug#770466: ITP: dash-el -- Modern list manipulation library for Emacs

2014-11-21 Thread Hajime MIZUNO
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Hajime Mizuno X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-emac...@lists.debian.org, debian-de...@debian.or.jp * Package name: dash-el Version : 2.9.0 Upstream Author : Magnar Sveen * URL : https://github.com/magnars/dash

Re: Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Vincent Bernat: There is chpst for this kind of task. Unfortunately, being part of > runit, it may not be suitable for a dependency. * http://superuser.com/a/72 Actually, there are chpst, s6-setuidgid, daemontools-encore setuidgid, daemontools setuidgid, freedt setuidgid, nosh setuidgid,

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Leif Lindholm
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from > user-space, and which ones (ca

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Hands
Stephan Seitz writes: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:16:46PM +, Philip Hands wrote: >>Would it perhaps make sense to have etckeeper additionally keep track of >>files in /lib directories for packages that have this /etc overrides >>/lib scheme? Such packages could add their config-outside-etc

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:42:34 +, Simon McVittie wrote: > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from > user-space, and which ones (can be

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Sam Hartman
I thought there was a flag bit you could set on x86 that causes unaligned access to trap there too. --Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/0149d2

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Rebecca N. Palmer
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Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Simon McVittie [141121 13:42]: > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from > user-space, and which ones (can be configured to) crash or gi

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:42:34PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: > > * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are > known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from > user-space, and which ones (ca

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 21 Nov 2014, Simon McVittie wrote: > failing to start up on armel due to unaligned memory accesses. lzo2 has > a cpp macro, LZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED which can be defined to stop it doing > "clever" things with casting pointers. If the maintainer doesn't object Please define this macro uncondi

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Philip Hands
Ian Jackson writes: > Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"): >> Would it perhaps make sense to have etckeeper additionally keep track of >> files in /lib directories for packages that have this /etc overrides >> /lib scheme? Such packages could add their config-outside-etc >> directorie

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 09:16:46PM +, Philip Hands wrote: Would it perhaps make sense to have etckeeper additionally keep track of files in /lib directories for packages that have this /etc overrides /lib scheme? Such packages could add their config-outside-etc I don’t think so, especially

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"): > Would it perhaps make sense to have etckeeper additionally keep track of > files in /lib directories for packages that have this /etc overrides > /lib scheme? Such packages could add their config-outside-etc > directories to a list somewhere, perha

Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-21 Thread Simon McVittie
A couple of questions for people who know low-level things: * Of Debian's architectures (official and otherwise), which ones are known/defined/designed to be OK with unaligned accesses from user-space, and which ones (can be configured to) crash or give wrong answers? * Would it be safer to

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-21 Thread Russell Stuart
On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 17:39 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > > These days, they might just push their repo to github and let its machinery > > generate the tarballs, which TTBOMK aren't guaranteed to be 1:1 identical to > > another tarball of t

Re: systemd breaking display manager - no way to force?

2014-11-21 Thread Agustin Martin
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 07:28:55AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 21 nov 14, 09:45:51, Norbert Preining wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > so here we are, after the freeze, and systemd stubbornly rejects > > to start lightdm, my default display manager, and in turn tries > > to start lxdm, whi

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard: > Sure it would be even better to only get notified on _semantic_ changes > rather than line-based ones, but that's a dream, not a regression. > Given Python .ini script parser and some directory scanning, an initial program which does this shouldn't be too hard to do. Any

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ansgar Burchardt (2014-11-21 09:59:39) > Jonas Smedegaard writes: >> Thanks. Sounds like only a diff between system-provided and >> sysadmin-overrided config, however: That might help for the latter >> part of the question - notify only when system service file is >> overridden locally

Re: Help to review a patch in ELisp

2014-11-21 Thread Remi Vanicat
Stéphane Aulery writes: > Hello, > > I am looking for a person who knows enough to verify a ELisp patch. The > patch is supposed to fix a problem of space in file names [1], upstream > unfortunately does not have the in-house expertise [2]. > > Volunteers? The change to elisp only touch one rege

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-21 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:25 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > These days, they might just push their repo to github and let its machinery > generate the tarballs, which TTBOMK aren't guaranteed to be 1:1 identical to > another tarball of the same commit that's downloaded a week later. Or a > year. I

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Russell Stuart: > Admittedly this meshes well with my experience that they are often > fairly lax about what they put in those tarballs. Their "make > distclean" scripts are often not as good as they could be Or they're better, in that a "make distclean" removes files like *.min.js which a s

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Alexandre Detiste
>> There was some discussion about this a while back, and I vaguely remember >> that systemd comes with a tool that will tell you exactly what you're >> overriding. I'm not sure if that work got all the way to producing a nice >> Debian-aware tool or not. > >Sounds interesting. If anyone recall t

Re: Help to review a patch in ELisp

2014-11-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Josh Triplett: > > + sed -e 's/.* .*/\"&\"/' > $LIST_FILE > > > I can't speak for the rest of the patch without digging into quite a bit > of the context and assumptions in the elisp, but regarding this bit, > rather than checking for spaces and only quoting filenames then, just > *alw

Re: init system policy

2014-11-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jonas Smedegaard writes: > Thanks. Sounds like only a diff between system-provided and > sysadmin-overrided config, however: That might help for the latter part > of the question - notify only when system service file is overridden > locally (by suppressing notification if systemd-deta is