Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:49:46 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >Users of sysvinit, are of two categories, those that "reverted to or >wish to stay with sysvinit" or those that "simply use the default". >It is desired to migrate "simply use the default" to the new default, >systemd, if that is poss

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 11:55:19 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Will it be the norm that the binaries replacing well-used shell >> scripts on early boot only implement the features that Lennart deemed >> useful? That would be a major turn-off, adding to the fact that early >> boot will

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 15:28:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >I did not make a technical statement about systemd. I understand the reasons >why Tech-CTTE chose it and while I am skeptical about the attitude of some >upstream and Debian developers regarding handling bug reports and feedback, I

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 18:00:02 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >Le Sat, 10 May 2014 16:00:39 +0200, >> Yet: I do think its about high time systemd developers and packagers >> adopt an attitude of "never break userspace" like the kernel >> developers do. > >Sure that the attitude "I don't care where

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:13:01 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Every compiler toolchain upgrade breaks a bunch of packages, sometimes in >subtle ways, and mostly because the code was in some way non-standard. >You don't complain about that, do you? So why is systemd different? Because systemd break

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 20:57:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 19:53 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: >> * Matthias Urlichs , 2014-05-10, 19:13: >> >Every compiler toolchain upgrade breaks a bunch of packages, >> >> For end users? I don't think so. > >If a package is not changed to fix t

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian wrote: >On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: >A couple of quotes from your mail: > > "I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of > > almost all systemd's defenders." > >You're not looking for flames? You're kidding, aren

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 22:13:01 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >I also would not expect an "end user" to add "su foo -c /do/whatever" to >/etc/rc.local. Your opinion may differ, that's OK. Especially people who are not as Debian-centric as we are tend to do exactly this. Simply because they don't kn

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 23:11:10 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:12:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> The name "start-stop-daemon" would suggest this is inappropriate for cron >> jobs, is that an invalid assumption I made? > >Perhaps a better name could have been chosen, in hind

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 15:38:24 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >I consider it of the highest importance that the transition to systemd not >break running systems. +1 >Some of the regressions introduced are going to turn out to be bugs in >systemd. Some of them are going to turn out to be latent bugs

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 16:27:00 +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: >This is the part you should _NEVER_ do. It is YOUR responsibitiliy, as a >maintainer (you are the maintainer, right?), to make sure that a bug that is >reported in the wrong place gets sent to the right place. It is GOOD that a >user reports

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Adrien Clerc
Le 11/05/2014 09:22, Marc Haber a écrit : >> Systemd (as upstart) sidesteps this problem to a large degree by handling >> uid switching as a native directive, avoiding the need to call out to a >> separate command. > Just out of curiosity: What do I do when I convert an init script that > parses a

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Adrien Clerc wrote: > In systemd, the ExecStartPre directive can be helpful. But the > documentation doesn't say if it is executed as the user defined in the > User directive, or as root. I guess the latter is done, but I'm too lazy > right now to test it :

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init > script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from > an init script? start-stop-daemon has: -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description:

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 08:57:29 schrieb Marc Haber: > >IMVHO opening a PAM session in an initscript is a bad idea from day > >one, as you don't know which modules are being called, as it can create > >bogus audit trails or cause other subtile issues. > > Just curious as the maintainer of anothe

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > >"systemctl status" tells you quite clearly what went wrong, "journalctl" > >shows you what the program printed in case it did get started … and so on. > > If the system boots. > If it does not, you cannot stick '-x' into an init script either. I haven't yet seen a system wher

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. Mai 2014, 21:36:42 schrieb Laurent Bigonville: > Le Sat, 10 May 2014 19:13:01 +0200, > Matthias Urlichs a écrit : > > Hi, > > [...] > > > > Telling "Go away, the bug is elsewhere" is just not an approbiate > > > reaction for developers of a low level system component. > > > > F

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. Mai 2014, 15:38:24 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 04:00:39PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > The root cause of this bug is in the initscript of dirmngr that us using > > > su instead of start-stop-daemon. > > > > > > su is starting a PAM session which then

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 00:55:43 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: > > > Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or > > > longer > > > before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account > > > do > > > you ca

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 09:13:09 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Sat, 10 May 2014 16:27:00 +0200, Bas Wijnen > > wrote: > >This is the part you should _NEVER_ do. It is YOUR responsibitiliy, as a > >maintainer (you are the maintainer, right?), to make sure that a bug that > >is reported in the wrong

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 mai 2014 08:58 +0200, Marc Haber  : >>Mind you, I am not defending the handling of this specific bug; certainly >>the systemd people's attitude is somewhat … let's call it abrasive … >>at times. > > And this abrasive attitude is hurting. It's hurting systemd, it's > hurting users, it's hurti

Bug#747706: ITP: libtypes-datetime-perl -- type constraints and coercions for datetime objects

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-datetime-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-DateTime * License : Arti

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:22:02 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >That is true, but it's even simpler if there's no script to stick '-x' into >in the first place, because PID1 knows perfectly well how to do it on its >own and will give you a complete status, including failed preconditions >and whatnot.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init >> script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from >> an init script? > >start-stop-daemon has: > > -c, --chuid

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:54:37 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ? 11 mai 2014 08:58 +0200, Marc Haber  : > >>>Mind you, I am not defending the handling of this specific bug; certainly >>>the systemd people's attitude is somewhat … let's call it abrasive … >>>at times. >> >> And this abrasive attitude

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:38:15PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I would like to solicit the opinion of the developers about the > value of adding Guile support to the default make package, at the > expense of two smallish additional dependencies. > http://blog.melski.net/2013/11/29/w

Re: Bug#706336: RFP: wmfs2 -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:24:49, Anti Thesis wrote: > Package: wmfs2 > Severity: wishlist > > WMFS2 is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X > written in C. wmfs2 is a free software distributed under the BSD license. it > can be drive from keyboa

Re: Bug#706338: RFP: dictator -- Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) text file reading

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:27:34, Anti Thesis wrote: > Package: dictator > Severity: wishlist > > Dictator is a program for on-screen reading of text files, developed with the > intention of making it easier to read some of the fine electronic texts > available on the net, s

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > > wrote: > >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init > >> script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process fro

Re: Bug#706342: RFP: alopex -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:33:32, Anti Thesis wrote: > Package: alopex > Severity: wishlist > > Alopex is a tiling, tagging, window manager with status bar tabs. > > License: GNU GPL > URL: https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/alopex > Alternative URL: http://trilbywhite.github.io/

Re: Bug#720394: RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, protable, self-sufficient containers

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers On Mi, 21 aug 13, 13:44:53, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Package: lxc-docker > Version: 0.5.3-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > As per http://www.docker.io/: "Docker is an

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > wrote: > >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an > >> init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root > >> process from an init script? > > > >start-stop

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Steigerwald > DESCRIPTION >The su command is used to become another user during a login >session. Invoked without a username, su defaults to becoming the >superuser. The optional argument - may be used to provide an >environment similar to what the user

Bug#747722: ITP: libmatch-simple-xs-perl -- XS backend for match::simple

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmatch-simple-xs-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/match-simple-XS * License : Ar

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 mai 14, 18:56:24, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Having these bugs rott in a corner of the BTS almost nobody ever looks at is > a > disservice to our users. IMO there should be 0 bugs open against > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint= To also bring some numbers to this: $

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 03:18 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian > wrote: > >> On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: >> >> A couple of quotes from your mail: >> >>> "I find myself appalled at the rude and dominee

Bug#747729: ITP: libtypes-uuid-perl -- type constraints for UUIDs

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-uuid-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-UUID * License : Artistic or

Bug#747731: ITP: libpackage-constants-perl -- list constants defined in a package

2014-05-11 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niko Tyni * Package name: libpackage-constants-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jos Boumans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Package-Constants * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Building two binary packages from a single source seems hackish, > since make and make-guile would require ./configure to be run again, > and each target of the ./debin/rules might need cleanup/restart. Not > unsolvable, but messy, and I do not hav

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:47:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > This one. > > The systemd package contains other dbus services that you don't want to try > to exclude from a desktop system; and libpam-systemd provides necessary > integration with policykit on those same systems. So basically wh

Bug#747732: ITP: libtest-api-perl -- test a list of subroutines provided by a module

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtest-api-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : https://metacpan.org/module/Test::API * License : Apache-2.0 Pro

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > Yet the su manpage clearly states that su doesn´t open a new login session. Does not. The manpage states that su is meant to change your UID _during_ a login session. If there is no such thing, the fact that it creates a new session for you should not be too surprising.

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > I believe all those bugs should be either reassigned to emacs23 (and soon 24) > or just be closed with an informal message, also offering to reopen and > reassign to emacs23/24 if applicable. [...] Closing them would be a disservic

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > Hi, > > is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? > > There are currently 184 reuqests open, some trivial requests already > since two years (like [1]). > > I filed a ticket there a month ago, and still did not get any > response yet. > >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > >start-stop-daemon has: > > -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] > > Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD > Unices? > No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on B

Bug#747747: ITP: libtest-modern-perl -- precision testing for modern perl

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtest-modern-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Modern * License : Artistic o

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois >> >> wrote: >> >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): >> >> Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init >> >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:47:39 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >For other distributions (and other Unix based OS) most of (all?) the >initscripts are already different anyway. Is it right to force that? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ---

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: >There is no way to avoid the "userspace.exe" blob Debian is soon made of. To be fair, the major Linuxes will soon be made of that. Red Hat wants it that way. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy copie

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [140511 16:09]: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald > wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > >> > >> wrote: > >> >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > >> >> Just curious as the maintain

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber [140511 16:12]: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:47:39 +0200, Laurent Bigonville > wrote: > >For other distributions (and other Unix based OS) most of (all?) the > >initscripts are already different anyway. > > Is it right to force that? This is already true today for a long list of other

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.05.2014, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Daniel Pocock: > > On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? [...] > > Other people have had problems with alioth too: > > - write permissions on VCS directory for new proje

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber : > On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: >>There is no way to avoid the "userspace.exe" blob Debian is soon made of. > > To be fair, the major Linuxes will soon be made of that. Red Hat wants > it that way. Oh come on! Do we really have to

Bug#747750: ITP: libtypes-uri-perl -- type constraints and coercions for URIs

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-uri-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-URI * License : Artistic or GP

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Daniel Pocock (2014-05-11 15:58:50) > On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: >> is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? Thanks for raising that general question here, Ole. I have been wondering too. > Other people have had problems with alioth too: [details snipped] P

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 10:21 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2014-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber : > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote: >> >>> There is no way to avoid the "userspace.exe" blob Debian is soon >>> made of. >> >> To

Re: Deprecating/removing racoon/ipsec-tools from Debian GNU/Linux and racoon from Debian/kfreebsd

2014-05-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hello, I wish racoon/ipsec-tools could stay for just a little longer. I'd like some time to evaluate it, against the *SWAN implementations, for GNU/kFreeBSD jessie. IPSEC has not been enabled yet in Debian default kernels, but it is a personal goal to have it in the jessie release. When I last

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Hi, > > Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] > can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that lintian detect these naked (not embeded) profile by default. > Since it's something that not many people

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock > On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > > > What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way > > to change that? I think it's quite clear and has been for a while that we need more active admins for Alioth. > Other people have had problems with alioth

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer writes: > Not for all eternity, but probably for as long as any significant number > of people who are in a position to observe and participate in (or at > least jump into) such a discussion have those concerns, yes. Meanwhile, many of the nice, polite, calm, and constructive system

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald > wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > >> > >> > >> wrote: > >> >Marc Haber (2014-05-11): > >> >> Just curious as the maintainer of a

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 15:39 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I believe all those bugs should be either reassigned to emacs23 (and soon > > 24) > > or just be closed with an informal message, also offering to reopen and > > reassign

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:38:24PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > As the maintainer of the pam package in Debian, I assure you: this is a bug > in dirmngr. System services should not (must not) call interfaces that > launch pam sessions as part of their init scripts. su is one of those > interfac

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 18:48:46 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: >Marc Haber wrote: >> This will also cause double effort since Debian needs special handling >> that no other distribution obviously needs. > >Could you please explain me how it could cause double effort as the >initscript the the dirmn

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] >> can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. > > Note that lintian detect these naked (not embede

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: > Yes. This has been the case for su in Debian since 1999, and to do > otherwise would break a variety of configurations where session setup is > required in order for, e.g., the su process to have access to the files of > the target user. It s

systemd-sysv: #747535 Was: Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Svante Signell
severity 747535 serious thanks Please Tollef :( On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 09:00 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014 20:57:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings > wrote: > >On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 19:53 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> * Matthias Urlichs , 2014-05-10, 19:13: > >> >Every compiler toolchain up

dirmngr:#668890, #670700 Was: Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 18:48 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald > > wrote: > > >Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: > > >> On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois > > >> > > >> > > >> wrote

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: > by the non-stop sniping (for *months* now) by people like Kevin Chadwick, Well I have only responded to incorrect statements and have tried to ignore any that are not from debian developers and may not affect the future of debian but you can't a

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > I haven't yet seen a system where booting with init=/bin/bash works but > booting systemd in emergency mode does not. Have you added me to a killfile? I mentioned such a bug as happened in Arch testing in this very thread or do you mean a d

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: > > Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD > > Unices? > > > No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check > what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo) > I can tell

Bug#747812: ITP: python-fysom -- fysom provides a python finite state machine

2014-05-11 Thread Marcin Kulisz (kuLa)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Marcin Kulisz (kuLa)" * Package name: python-fysom Version : 1.0.15 Upstream Author : Maximilien Riehl * URL : https://github.com/mriehl/fysom * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : fysom provide

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/05/14 18:26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Daniel Pocock > >> On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: >> >>> What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way >>> to change that? > > I think it's quite clear and has been for a while that we need more > active admins f

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock > On 11/05/14 18:26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Daniel Pocock > > > >> On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: > >> > >>> What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way > >>> to change that? > > > > I think it's quite clear and has been for a while

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:29:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 15:39 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > [...] > > So, the natural thing to do would be to reassign them. > > I think the natural thing to do is to close with a message explaining > how to reopen and reassign if the

Bug#747823: ITP: confiture -- Python library to parse configuration files

2014-05-11 Thread Antoine Millet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Millet * Package name: confiture Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Antoine Millet * URL : https://github.com/NaPs/Confiture * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python library to parse co

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: > I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of > packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that > [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=su+-c+path%3Adebian%2F+path%3Ainit If I counted correctly, there are 5

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > Having these bugs rott in a corner of the BTS almost nobody ever looks at is > a > disservice to our users. IMO there should be 0 bugs open against > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint= If that's really desirable,

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.05.2014 08:06, schrieb Norbert Preining: > One of the things that systemd breaks (not checked on Debian, but > on other systems), is that screen session are killed when logging out > of the ssh session. > > This is a *fundamental* change in behaviour, and does break a lot > of setups and sys

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cameron Norman
El Sun, 11 de May 2014 a las 1:49 PM, Michael Biebl escribió: Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=su+-c+p

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2014 22:49, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: > >> I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of >> packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that > >> [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=su+-c+path%3Adebia

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 10 May 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014, Rob Browning wrote: > > If we can, I'd like to remove emacs23 from unstable/testing before the > > freeze. To make that possible, any relevant packages will need to > > migrate to emacs24, or just include support for emacs24. >

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 11, 2014 at 03:58:50PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : > > Other people have had problems with alioth too: > > - write permissions on VCS directory for new projects > > - mailing list creation requests waiting for admin approval Thanks Daniel for raising the issue. For mailing lists

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, >> Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : >>> This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC >>> descriptive, rather than creative? According to the International Color Consortium, profiles provide con

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Russell Stuart
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 21:38 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I'm not disagreeing, I think we're providing a much poorer service level > for Alioth than what we should do. Sadly, I don't have the motivation > to spend much time there nowadays. I have for years hosted my own projects in a minimalist

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: > sourceforge is closed source. That is no longer the case, sourceforge folks implemented a new codebase called Allura, are running it, released it under the Apache license and continue to develop it as an Apache Software Foundation project.

Re: systemd pulled in automatically

2014-05-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:20:33PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > Can we please separate the bugs in this thread: This one is about > dirnmgr not network-manager and gdm3 dragging in systemd as init > default, #747535. Speaking of that, I made a suggestion that AFAIK fixes the issue, which isn't i

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 11/05/14 09:18, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian > wrote: >> On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: >> A couple of quotes from your mail: >> > "I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of >> > almost all systemd's defenders." >> >> Y

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 10/05/14 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: > we should also prepare for that situation > and ensure that any switch of an init system via package installation > results in a critical debconf warning so that no one is caught by > surprise. > > This has the advantage of future-proofing against any later

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez writes: > On 10/05/14 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: >> we should also prepare for that situation and ensure that any switch of >> an init system via package installation results in a critical debconf >> warning so that no one is caught by surprise. >> This has the advanta

Re: systemd pulled in automatically

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen writes: > If the order of the dependencies of libpam-systemd is switched, so it > becomes systemd-shim | systemd-sysv, the result will be: > - If systemd is not installed, systemd-shim will be installed and the > original init system will continue functioning. > - If systemd is inst

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:06:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > One of the maintainers of systemd says that otherwise he don't thinks > > this behavior is unsuitable for release: https://bugs.debian.org/747535#46 > This, however, *is* the wrong way to have this discussion. Arguing over > whethe

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > RC bug severity has an important function in blocking package migrations > to testing. If someone is concerned that a particular regression in > behavior is sufficiently severe that it should block the new version of > the package from testing, they certainly should set

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > >> The plain fact: > >> Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer > >> before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do > >> you call calling "su" in an init script a bug? It m

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > The maintainer may disagree, in which case one is free to escalate it > to the release team precisely as Tollef has suggested. But there's > nothing inappropriate about having this discussion directly with the > maintainer first. Right, and I didn't complain about the initia