Bug#861162: ITP: r-cran-pwt9 -- GNU R package for the Penn World Tables (version 9.x)

2017-04-25 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sébastien_Villemot * Package name: r-cran-pwt9 Version : 9.0.0 Upstream Author : Achim Zeileis * URL : https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pwt9 * License : GPL-2 | GPL-3 Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R pac

Bug#861182: ITP: python-ete3 -- Python toolkit for phylogenetic tree manipulation and visualisation.

2017-04-25 Thread Alba Crespi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alba Crespi * Package name: python-ete3 Version : 3.0.0b35 Upstream Author : Jaime Huerat-Cepas , François Serra * URL : https://github.com/etetoolkit/ete * License : GPL-3.0 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#861188: ITP: grr-client-templates -- incident response framework - pre-built client templates

2017-04-25 Thread Sascha Steinbiss
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sascha Steinbiss * Package name: grr-client-templates Version : 3.1.0.2 Upstream Author : Google Inc. * URL : https://github.com/google/grr * License : Apache-2.0, InfoZip, GPL2 Programming Lang: none Description

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

2017-04-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:17:48AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > While this scheme was probably instigated by limitations in RPM, at this > > point we have had multiple packages (kmod, systemd, udev for a start) > > using it for years. > > > > Moving the sysctl.d default

Re: default config not in /etc [was: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?]

2017-04-25 Thread Josh Triplett
Vincent Danjean wrote: > Perhaps, Debian can try to standardize this (for future releases), for > example asking to put the default config files in a central place (with > symlinks if required), for example /etc/default-config or even > /lib/default-config and/or /usr/lib/default-config. We cannot

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

2017-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:17:48AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 23, 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 drop files in /etc,

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

2017-04-25 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/25/2017 07:59 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > In my experience as a user of some of those packages, it is intensely > annoying that a package upgrade suddenly changes some behaviour in ways > that I dislike and it's difficult to figure out what changed, because > the configuration is not in /etc

Bug#861208: ITP: node-minimalistic-crypto-utils -- Minimalistic tools for JS crypto modules

2017-04-25 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ro...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-minimalistic-crypto-utils Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : Fedor Indutny * URL : https://github.com/indutny/minimalistic-crypto-utils#readme * Lic

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

2017-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Christian Seiler writes: > In my experience, having to merge configuration files on updates has > cost me a _lot_ of time. At the same time I can't recall a single > instance in the last couple of years where the default behavior of an > application I used changed and I really wanted to revert th

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

2017-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 2:52 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: > But this is a much more general problem. A lot of software in Debian > ships configuration files in /etc that look like this: > > # > # Setting ABC > # > #ABC = 123 I always thought that Debian shipping what is essentially documentation i