Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-27 Thread Richard Laager
On 9/27/21 9:15 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Should it be mentioned what the new recommended DHCP server for general use will be? ISC Kea? I haven't converted to it, but that's their replacement for dhcpd. I think that a good default would be systemd-networkd fo

Bug#995219: ITP: gumble -- gumble is a Mumble client implementation in Go (golang)

2021-09-27 Thread Bradford D. Boyle
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bradford D. Boyle * Package name: gumble Version : 0.0~git20200818.146f920-1 Upstream Author : Tim Cooper https://github.com/layeh/gumble * License : MPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : Mumble client implementation in

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 28, Noah Meyerhans wrote: Should it be mentioned what the new recommended DHCP server for general use will be? > For what it's worth, my preference would be transition to > systemd-networkd with bookworm. I think that a good default would be systemd-networkd for servers and NetworkManag

Re: Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-27 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 08:25:14PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > The ISC DHCP suite has a lenghty list of bug reports that have been left > unattended. Some bugs date back to DHCP 3 or even earlier. > > Additionally, recent upstream rele

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread nick black
Marc Haber left as an exercise for the reader: > But maybe an alternative? I find the partitioning step one of the most > error-prone and hard-to-use parts of non-trivial Debian installations. so overall, i've got to say the feedback i heard here was a lot more positive than i was expecting, thoug

Bug#995189: RFH: isc-dhcp

2021-09-27 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Package: wnpp Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Control: affects -1 src:isc-dhcp -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The ISC DHCP suite has a lenghty list of bug reports that have been left unattended. Some bugs date back to DHCP 3 or even earlier. Additio

Re: Future of /usr/bin/which in Debian?

2021-09-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Michael Stone wrote: I think it doesn't matter how many which implementations are in debian. If you want something with specific portable semantics, just use command -v. The remaining consumers of which are either programs that (ipso facto) don't care about semantic corner cases or are humans who

Bug#995184: ITP: libmarc-parser-xml-perl -- parser for MARC XML records

2021-09-27 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: libmarc-parser-xml-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Johann Rolschewski * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MARC-Pars

Bug#995183: ITP: libmarc-schema-perl -- specification of the MARC21 format as Perl data structures

2021-09-27 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: libmarc-schema-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Johann Rolschewski * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MARC-Schema *

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Metztli Information Technology
On 9/27/21 4:01 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello Nick! On 9/26/21 16:29, Nick Black wrote: I'd be delighted to support them -- as in, I am honestly eager to add ATARI support; that sounds awesome -- I just need some way to test the implementations, either via someone running it on th

Bug#995182: ITP: libsql-abstract-classic-perl -- module to generate SQL from Perl data structures - classic version

2021-09-27 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: libsql-abstract-classic-perl Version : 1.91 Upstream Author : Peter Rabbitson * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/SQL-Abs

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 27, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Not for me, though. Debian has always followed the philosophy to be a > universal > operating system, which also meant that we can't (immediately) use all the new > technologies and features that other distributions or upstream projects > develop. I

Bug#995177: ITP: libsql-abstract-pg-perl -- PostgreSQL features for SQL::Abstract

2021-09-27 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: libsql-abstract-pg-perl Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Sebastian Riedel * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/SQL-Abstract

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 3:41 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 15:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: >>> >>> Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do >>> anything, and I'm not really sur

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 03:18:48PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Whether a tool that was developed new from scratch is automatically better is > not a given. The burden of proof is on the person trying to introduce the new > software, not on the people maintaining the current set of s

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 15:18 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > > On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > > published in 2014 [0]

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> On Sep 27, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Even if that interpretation would work as an excuse to never do > anything, and I'm not really sure it does, this specification has been > published in 2014 [0] so even by Debian standard it's old stuff. That’s not what I said so. You’re

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:49:53PM -0400, Nick Black wrote: > So the only ones covered by partman and not covered by growlight would be: > amiga, atari, sun, > and mac (if mac is not the same as APM). I don't see any difficulty in > adding these four, so long > as there's someone with an Amiga or A

Bug#995168: ITP: libppix-utils-perl -- utility functions for PPI

2021-09-27 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: libppix-utils-perl Version : 0.003 Upstream Author : Dan Book * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/PPIx-Utils * License

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Mon, 2021-09-27 at 13:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/27/21 12:46, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > Also, since parted is maintained by RedHat, I would expect that this > > > feature > > > would land in parted soon as well. > > > > > If the question is "why does X not u

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 10:50:35AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 01:41:18AM -0400, nick black wrote: > > Marco d'Itri left as an exercise for the reader: > > > And the preseeding syntax is as powerful as it is inconvenient. > > > > Implementing support for more partition fo

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 9/27/21 12:46, Luca Boccassi wrote: >> Also, since parted is maintained by RedHat, I would expect that this feature >> would land in parted soon as well. >> > If the question is "why does X not use libparted", "does not support > discoverable parts spec" is a good enough answer for me.

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello Nick! On 9/26/21 16:29, Nick Black wrote: > I'd be delighted to support them -- as in, I am honestly eager > to add ATARI support; that sounds awesome -- I just need some > way to test the implementations, either via someone running it > on the environment, or getting access to such a machin

Re: partman, growlight, discoverable partitions, and fun

2021-09-27 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Sun, 2021-09-26 at 12:45 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hello! > > On 9/26/21 12:40, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > Does libparted support the discoverable partitions spec? > > I'm not sure, this thread is the first time I have heard about discoverable > partitions. I have read up first w