Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-27 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 09:00:41PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:16:58PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > > Both, procps and systemd support (/usr)?/lib/sysctl.d/*.conf, however only > > one package (systemd-coredump) uses it, all others drop files in > > /etc/sysctl.d. >

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:18:54 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >I didn't say RPM *doesn't* deal with changed files; I said ours deals >with it better. I stand by that. Given that dpkg's conffile handling still has much headroom for improvement, this is a rather sad statement for the rpm half of the w

Work-needing packages report for Apr 28, 2017

2017-04-27 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: 1058 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 160 (new: 1) Total number of packages reques

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May writes: > On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL >> releases). > There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge > (June 6th 2005), yet we still allowed upgrades from Woody to Sarge.

Bug#861340: ITP: elpa-poetry -- Poetry writing aids for Emacs

2017-04-27 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicholas D Steeves * Package name: elpa-poetry Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Bob Newell * URL : http://www.bobnewell.net/filez/poetry.el * License : GPL3+ Programming Lang: Elisp Description : Poetry writing a

Bug#861327: ITP: fsleyes -- feature-rich viewer for volumetric images

2017-04-27 Thread Michael Hanke
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Hanke * Package name: fsleyes Version : 0.10.1 Upstream Author : Paul McCarthy * URL : https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/ * License : Apache-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : feature-rich view

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:53:57AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of > > doing things is prevalent in the RPM world; in Debian, however, we > > traditionally have packages dro

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:05:10AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > > All of this is caused by Red Hat having no support for upgrades: > > > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21964 > > > > # Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between maj