Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Holger, I’ve been totally shocked by the Subject, but reading on… > On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it > > > just that no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core? > > > > The latter. sys

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2018-10-14 at 18:12 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: [...] > > > sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only > > > ever made one upload (over a year ago). > > > > It seems that these facts are either largely ignored or unknown and I > > wonder if some noise should be made so th

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only > > > > ever made one upload (over a year ago). > > Why would sysvinit need uploads? It’s largely working software > > that needs few changes. > > That may be, but there are many open bug

Bug#911026: ITP: manuskript -- open-source tool for writers

2018-10-14 Thread Miriam Ruiz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Miriam Ruiz * Package name: manuskript Version : 0.7.0 Upstream Author : Curtis Gedak * URL : http://www.theologeek.ch/manuskript/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python3 Description : open-source tool for w

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 10:17:11PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > > sysvinit currently has two maintainers, but they've only > > > > > ever made one upload (over a year ago). > > > > Why would sysvinit need uploads? It’s largely working softw

Re: Bug#910446: NMU diff (substantive patches in git-format-patch form)

2018-10-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Guido Günther writes ("Re: Bug#910446: NMU diff (substantive patches in git-format-patch form)"): > On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 03:36:49PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Hi. I fixed this bug, and some other FTBFS, and am about to upload > > the result. I'm doing this myself, right away, because this

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 14 Oct 2018, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Please note that sysvinit dependencies still have open RC bugs which > noone is caring for. Oof. How do I find them out? The BTS shows no RC bugs, not even ones tagged as affects src:sysvinit, and the QA page https://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sysvin

ITP: visualequation -- WYSIWYG equation editor powered by LaTeX

2018-10-14 Thread daniel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Daniel Molina Garcia * Package name: visualequation Version : 0.3.7 Upstream Author : Daniel Molina Garcia * URL : https://github.com/daniel-molina/visualequation * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Descripti

Re: Fwd: Re: Fw: Debian packaging, dependency management and the C++ standards meeting

2018-10-14 Thread Detlef Vollmann
I got this mail forwarded, I'm not on any of the lists, don't know too much about Debian packaging, but generally attend the C++ standards meeting. On 10/11/18 16:32, Baurzhan Ismagulov wrote: - Forwarded message from Bill Gatliff - Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:00:42 -0500 From: Bill Gatl

Re: Debian Buster release to partially drop non-systemd support

2018-10-14 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Glaser] > The QA page says: “The BTS contains patches fixing 49 bugs (63 > if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.” > This is indeed a sad state. What does the team “Debian sysvinit > maintainers” say about those? Nothing. There is in reality no team any more. T