Re: C++ testing library

2014-02-21 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Jan Gloser wrote: > Earlier this week I wanted to find a C++ testing library. I tried gtest and > cppunit but both of them seemed way too much overkill for my needs. You can try cpputest too. You might find it better for your needs. At least I never had any feeling of blo

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Mario Lang
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio correctly. > They have the assumption that sound cards are still simple devices > with one input jack and one output jack and any application using it > just has to find the sound card and output its audio s

Bug#739677: ITP: trac-navadd -- Add custom items to main and meta navigation bar in Trac web application

2014-02-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Kahn Gillmor * Package name: trac-navadd Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Ryan J. Ollos * URL : https://trac-hacks.org/wiki/NavAddPlugin * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Add custom ite

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mario Lang wrote: > I am sorry, both are not an option for me, since alsamixer is a ncurses > program, and pavucontrol apparently requires $DISPLAY to be set. > > I guess that explains why the accessibility community has > problems with PA. What's wrong with the accessibil

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread Simon McVittie
On 20/02/14 19:37, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I have split openrc into openrc and openrc-sysv moving the conflicting > parts to openrc-sysv on my system, and it install just fine If sysv-rc's invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d should be treated as generic glue shared by multiple inits (which they probably shou

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 04:20 AM, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: > OpenRC needs a proper directory structure in /run/openrc to track the > status of services. It is handled by init.sh and friends, you may need > to hack that. So, OpenRC actually also relies on files - like System V Init - to track the state of a

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Le 2014-02-21 09:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : On 02/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mario Lang wrote: I am sorry, both are not an option for me, since alsamixer is a ncurses program, and pavucontrol apparently requires $DISPLAY to be set. I guess that explains why the accessibility community has

Bug#739684: ITP: r-other-nitpick -- peak identification for mass spectrometry data

2014-02-21 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-other-nitpick Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Marc Kirchner * URL : http://hci.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/MIP/Software/nitpick.php * License : LGPL Programming Lang: R Description : pea

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 11:38 AM, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: > Not the same accessibility. And the screen reader will not work if PA > does not work. > This is quite difficult to debug remotely; if the user cannot describe > the output of > commands, then we are doomed. Doesn't this perfectly apply to AL

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Paul Gevers
On 21-02-14 10:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mario Lang wrote: >> I am sorry, both are not an option for me, since alsamixer is a ncurses >> program, and pavucontrol apparently requires $DISPLAY to be set. >> >> I guess that explains why the accessibility community

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
Say that I use a screen reader. Someone helps me installing debian, configures the volume level to non-zero and then I am on my own. After a while some package decides to install PA, then the audio is gone, then I'll need someone to come over a second time to help me with that. So yes it applie

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 02/21/2014 11:56 AM, Paul Gevers wrote: > I think the point of Mario is that people like him don't have a DE, > but work from console. I haven't checked, but apparently > pavucontrol needs an X-session to show itself. Of course ALSA has > the same

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: > There are a couple of command line utilities to control Pulse Audio in > the package "pulseaudio-utils". But I haven't used it that much to be > able to assess whether it provides the features Mario needs. > "pacmd" allows you to enumerate outputs, set their volum

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread heroxbd
Dear Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > So, OpenRC actually also relies on files - like System V Init - to > track the state of a service? Isn't that approach somewhat unreliable > and hacky? I bet you are going to tell me the only reliable and non-hacky way to track the state of a ser

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 01:00 PM, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: >> So, OpenRC actually also relies on files - like System V Init - to >> track the state of a service? Isn't that approach somewhat unreliable >> and hacky? > > I bet you are going to tell me the only reliable and non-hacky way to > track the state

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread heroxbd
Dear Adrian, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz writes: > On 02/21/2014 01:00 PM, hero...@gentoo.org wrote: >>> So, OpenRC actually also relies on files - like System V Init - to >>> track the state of a service? Isn't that approach somewhat unreliable >>> and hacky? >> >> I bet you are going to tell me

Bug#739700: ITP: python-smstrade -- Python library and command line tool to send SMS via the smstrade service

2014-02-21 Thread Jan Dittberner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jan Dittberner * Package name: python-smstrade Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Jan Dittberner * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/smstrade/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread Mario Lang
Paul Gevers writes: > On 21-02-14 10:57, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 02/21/2014 09:29 AM, Mario Lang wrote: >>> I am sorry, both are not an option for me, since alsamixer is a ncurses >>> program, and pavucontrol apparently requires $DISPLAY to be set. >>> >>> I guess that explains why

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 03:28 PM, Mario Lang wrote: > No, you have summarized it pretty neatly. > I just don't consider an X11 program a true alternative to a ncurses tool. Did you give pulseaudio-utils a try then? They don't require X. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer

Bug#739705: ITP: python-pretend -- Library for stubbing in Python

2014-02-21 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: python-pretend Version : 1.0.7 Upstream Author : Alex Gaynor * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pretend * License : BSD Programming Lang: Python Description : Library for stubbi

Bug#739706: ITP: python-iso8601 -- Simple module to parse ISO 8601 dates

2014-02-21 Thread Tristan Seligmann
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tristan Seligmann * Package name: python-iso8601 Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Michael Twomey * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601 * License : MIT (Expat) Programming Lang: Python Description : Simple

Multirelease, something like Multiarch.

2014-02-21 Thread Mike Mestnik
Hello, Multiarch gives the ability to store libraries in the main root lib directories from different architectures and this allows applications to co-exist on the same system. Some applications are compiled for amd64 while others are for i386 and perhaps x32. This could have been done using ch

Linux Security, Red Hat and Systemd Conspiracy

2014-02-21 Thread Georgy Demidov
Hi! Debian user here. This is my first and last letter about the bug #727708. I feel this is important to share. Quote from Soylent News [1]. Former cypherpunk shares his conspiratorial view on Linux security [1] : Since then, more has happened to reveal the true story here, the depth of which

Re: Bug#739706: ITP: python-iso8601 -- Simple module to parse ISO 8601 dates

2014-02-21 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Tristan Seligmann , 2014-02-21, 17:36: * Package name: python-iso8601 Version : 0.1.8 Upstream Author : Michael Twomey * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/iso8601 It's already in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-iso8601.html -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSU

Re: Bug#727708: Linux Security, Red Hat and Systemd Conspiracy

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Knadle
This particular statement was taken out of context: On Friday, February 21, 2014 20:48:46 Georgy Demidov wrote: [...] > Linus Torvalds about Lennart Poettering: “Two-faced lying weasel” would be > the most polite thing I could say. But it almost certainly will involve a > lot of cursing. When Lin

Re: Bug#727708: Linux Security, Red Hat and Systemd Conspiracy

2014-02-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Georgy Demidov dixit: >Debian user here. This is my first and last letter about the bug >#727708. I feel this is important to share. http://mid.gmane.org/1393001326.916837...@f432.i.mail.ru Thank you for sharing this. This was very appreciated, an

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list hero...@gentoo.org contributed: > > And grepping through the output of "ps" or similar is not what > > I would consider reliable and robust either. > > Nod. grepping `ps` is what we should avoid at all cost. All cost? While I like OpenRC and thanks to Gentoo for it and

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-21 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 02/21/2014 11:38 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > previously on this list hero...@gentoo.org contributed: > >>> And grepping through the output of "ps" or similar is not what >>> I would consider reliable and robust either. >> >> Nod. grepping `ps` is what we should avoid at all cost. > > All cos

Bug#739724: ITP: ruby-tinder -- Ruby wrapper for the Campfire API

2014-02-21 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ruby-tinder Version : 1.9.3 Upstream Author : Brandon Keepers * URL : http://github.com/collectiveidea/tinder * License : MIT Programming L

Re: Bug#727708: Linux Security, Red Hat and Systemd Conspiracy

2014-02-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Thorsten Glaser writes: > Georgy Demidov dixit: >>Debian user here. This is my first and last letter about the bug >>#727708. I feel this is important to share. > > http://mid.gmane.org/1393001326.916837...@f432.i.mail.ru > > Thank you for sharing this. This was very appreciated, and I think >

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-21 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 03:39:24PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > I would say: If nobody will insist until after the weekend we might go > ahead. And for the actual action I agree with Charles that I see no > problem if James would simply commit a change to Debian Med repositories > (SVN and

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-21 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 10:07:42AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > you are very welcome to migrate the ‘debian/upstream’ files of the Debian Med > packaging team. Please do not worry about the ‘debian/upstream-metadata.yaml’ > files. > > Since a large share of the ‘debian/upstream’ files are in De

Re: Multirelease, something like Multiarch.

2014-02-21 Thread James McCoy
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:31:56AM -0600, Mike Mestnik wrote: > Now we've a similar situation for releases and even distributions. We can > run multiple releases using a chroot for each, but perhaps this system can > be improved on. This doesn't seem particularly Debian-specific, so I'm not sure

Re: Conflict between debian/upstream (DEP-12) & debian/upstream/ (uscan)

2014-02-21 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 12 févr. 2014 15:41, "Andreas Tille" a écrit : > > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 04:11:41PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Le Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:06:42AM -0500, James McCoy a écrit : > > > > > > That being said, I don't have access to most of the packages. Even if I > > > did, it feels