Summary of the Cloud Images BoF at DC16

2016-07-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the Cloud Images BoF session in Cape Town. Thanks to the awesome efforts of our video team, the session is already online [1]. I've taken a copy of the Gobby notes too, alongside my

Announcing the new "pkg-rpm" team

2016-07-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone! Thanks to an initiative from Arturo Borrero Gonzalez, we have created a new team on Alioth to package RPM related packages in Debian. While we're still using dpkg and apt in Debian (and we have no intention to change that), it is still

Bug#832546: ITP: kyklop -- Finds, tracks, and characterizes tropical cyclones in climate simulation data

2016-07-26 Thread Klaus Zimmermann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Klaus Zimmermann * Package name: kyklop Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Klaus Zimmermann * URL : https://github.com/fuentesfranco/kyklop * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Finds, tracks, and

Re: Policy 12.3: should I rename?

2016-07-26 Thread Sven Bartscher
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 22:59:43 +0200 Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Jonas Smedegaard > > > Quoting Tollef Fog Heen (2016-07-23 18:58:37) > > > ]] Geert Stappers > > > > > >> FWIW I agree with both '"main package "should have > > >> documentation' and 'additional documentation in separate doc >

Bug#832508: O: systemd-shim -- SysVinit shim for systemd

2016-07-26 Thread Martin Pitt
Package: wnpp Neither Steve nor I still have any interest in maintaining systemd-shim. Debian's default init system is systemd, Ubuntu supports nothing else any more (and does not even have systemd-shim any more), upstart is gone from both Debian and Ubuntu, so the only use case for it right now i

Re: Bug#832451: ITP: aufs4 -- advanced multi layered unification filesystem version 4.x

2016-07-26 Thread Jan Luca Naumann
Am 26.07.2016 um 02:07 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 21:05 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> We have already overlayfs in modern kernels. Could you explain why we >> need aufs4 as well? > > I believe aufs stil has these advantages over overlayfs: > > - Can be exported via NFS > - W