Re: this bug .. bugs me

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/06/2012 04:36 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Even better, maintainers can prevent this kind of things from happening > by opening up *by default*, allowing commit to package maintenance Vcs > to all DDs, and documenting that commits there are welcome as long as > they follow some house rules

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap? (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system > uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was tempted more than once to file a RC bug with a title like this

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > swap file on / [...] is > really the direction that we should be going NO ! Does this need to be explained? :/ Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Since it has been made public, I believe it's ok to discuss it in -devel. I came across this: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/493 Is the Squeeze version affected? And SID? By reading it, especially the end about GCC, it's unclear to me if we need an urgent patch: "To my knowledge gcc bui

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2012 01:52 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > IMHO I suggest to talk with Security Team before disclosing > information that might be sensitive in the mean time on a Debian > development mailing list. > Could you explain to me what exactly I'm disclosing? The news is already on slashdot and so on, an

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2012 02:00 AM, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote: > According to this: > https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2012/06/11/cve-2012-2122-a-tragically-comedic-security-flaw-in-mysql > > Debian is not affected. > > Kind regards, > Cool, thanks! Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2012 02:23 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > I'm not saying you are disclosing anything, but you are asking if > someone knows it's in what status publicly in a Debian development > mailing list. Then this may lead to some disclosing and even mislead > some other people. Yes there are many people doing

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2012 03:17 AM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > What you asked, and the answer to that question, was not already public. > > ...or you wouldn't have asked, I hope. ;-) > > > - Jonas > Actually, it was, and I was expecting to be able to find it, but didn't, which is why I asked! :) Thomas -

Re: Is Debian affected by the recent MySQL sql/password.c flow?

2012-06-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/12/2012 10:25 AM, Aron Xu wrote: > I'm not expecting to hide anything, but it's harmful to announce the > world by a discussion in debian-devel that we are affected with no > solution provided, at the time related people (means the maintainers > and Security Team, not including the user - lik

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2012 06:46 AM, Serge wrote: > Do you use 2.6 kernel and have FF profile and VB images on the same ext4 > partition? > My laptop setup is: - kernel 2.6.32-5 (Squeeze...) - RAID1 (replacing my thinkpad DVD ultrabay by a 2nd HDD) - LVM - dm-crypt - ext3 Yes, both the VB images and FF pro

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/13/2012 09:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 13/06/12 13:46, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Writing to my disk is normally quite >> fast, but I've noticed indeed that when it's VB that does it, it's slow. >> If I don't find a way, I guess I&#x

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
ade the default one in Alioth, and if the gbp.conf tells where to fetch upstream master branch, it seems doable. Also, I've noticed that apt-cache show doesn't display the Vcs fields. What's the way on the command line, so we could write such a script that would clone the repo? Thoug

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/15/2012 12:03 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Anyway, here's what I've been doing for our 150+ X packages: > > $ cat xserver-xorg-video-ati.git/debian/watch > #git=git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati > version=3 > http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/driver/ > x

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/15/2012 01:50 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > While having a standardized way would be useful, there's just so many > workflows, that you can't possibly cover all of them with a single > syntax, and in the end, you'd end up with having to call > package-specific scripts in the source. > > We alread

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/21/2012 10:53 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > > >> The thought of setting up personal (or even Debian-wide) Google+ servers >> never occurred to me. >> > I think you might have missed the point. Google+ is a proprietary SaaS > used for s

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/21/2012 10:39 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > Fair enough - but let's not lob hand grenades at people who might find it > useful. Let them get on with it if they want to. > Sorry, but it's fair enough to "lob hand grenades" at people suggesting non open source solutions, useful or not. Feel free

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/22/2012 05:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Step 1: upgrade/dist-upgrade with ia32-libs (wine, ...) held back > Step 2: dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update > Step 3: dist-upgrade (ia32-libs, wine, ... is now installable) > May I suggest that upon upgrade, we have a debconf m

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/23/2012 02:18 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Problem is that frontends will complain about ia32-libs being not > upgradable and might suggest removing it instead of keeping it back way > before that. At the time base-file is upgraded ia32-libs and all other > 32bit stuff might already have

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/23/2012 02:48 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The helpfull error messages and holding back packages would have to be > ported to stable apt/aptitude to be any use for upgrades. And only > people updating to the latest stable point release would benefit from > it. > Unfortunately, we neve

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/23/2012 03:10 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: > On 06/23/2012 08:23 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> Unfortunately, we never require that our users upgrade to the latest >> point release before upgrading to stable+1. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/24/2012 06:01 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:32:15PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 06/22/2012 05:34 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >>> Step 1: upgrade/dist-upgrade with ia32-libs (wine, ...) held back >>> Step 2: dpkg --add-architec

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/21/2012 10:09 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > It's all about perspective, though. We use free tools where we can, and > we try to build free tools where it makes sense. I don't see anybody > suggesting that we stop having debconf because the only way to get there > for most people is to use no

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2012 07:38 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Thomas Goirand > > >> For the booking of tickets, (public system) car software, etc., we >> have no choice. >> > Sure we have, you can always use a bike or your feet or a sailboat. > What does

yum 3.4.x failing: I need some help

2012-06-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Since March the 1st, I had Yum 3.4.3-1 ready in my Git repository. But I didn't upload the new version of yum because of an issue with the new version. It seemed to be working, eg, I could bootstrap a CentOS 6 distro in a chroot, just like you would with yum 3.2.x. And the resulting CentOS di

Re: scim and assorted packages

2012-06-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/28/2012 09:06 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > PS: What do you find missing in ibus? > We have 57 ibus* packages > We have 17 scim* packages > I miss the crashes and unpredictability of SCIM! :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Moving changelog and copyright files to control tarball, or merging control and data tarballs ?

2012-07-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/14/2012 08:48 AM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Pushing the logic further, I wonder if that suggests that the Debian binary > package format could be simplified to be a simple tarball with the metadata > in /var/lib/dpkg, instead of the current format with a data and a control > tarballs joined tog

Re: Bug#682107: ITP: libcamitk3 -- Computer Assisted Medical Intervention Tool Kit - runtime

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
package, not one for each of the binaries it generates. Please merge or close all but one of your open ITP, if you have only a single source package that generates multiple binaries (I have no way to know if that is the case, but that seems very probable, seeing the names of the packages you are sen

Re: Debian stickers

2012-07-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/21/2012 10:48 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > Has anyone thought of making Debian stickers for > 1. products that work with Debian > 2. products that can have Debian installed on them > > This would need some kind of database detailing products and any > issues associated with them.

Re: Bug#682496: ITP: melange -- Melange Widget System for the Cream Desktop Environment

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
though I don't think this is packaged in Debian ... yet). It would be really unfortunate that Debian can't use the same package name as Ubuntu, let's avoid it! Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Bug#682496: ITP: melange -- Melange Widget System for the Cream Desktop Environment

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On Tue Jul 24 2012 02:02:50 AM CST, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > This seems an aweful lot like the nodejs / node situation. It's very different. Here the clash is at the package name level, not binaries in /usr/bin. > Let's not let > anyone take "melange" and use cream-melange and openstack-melang

Re: Bug#682496: ITP: melange -- Melange Widget System for the Cream Desktop Environment

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/24/2012 12:00 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Also, we should not favor software written in the context of our downstream > distributions, compared to sofware written independantly, otherwise the take > home message will be that if one project wants to own a dictionary word in > Debian, they just

Re: Bug#682496: ITP: melange -- Melange Widget System for the Cream Desktop Environment

2012-07-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/24/2012 11:03 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Ubuntu'e `melange' is Deprecated, and is pending removal from the > archive (see launchpad[1]). > > It's deprecated upstream, and won't exist in Debian :) > > Fondly, > Paul I thought I made myself clear, but it seems I haven't (sorry): http://pac

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/05/2012 05:45 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > So we require 3d acceleration for a default install? I think that is > even more > insane than what recent windows versions require. Can we please have a > sane > default desktop for people with older hardware? Maybe just chosen in d-i, > depending on

Re: Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release

2012-08-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/06/2012 01:59 AM, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 4 Aug 2012 20:41:31 +0200 > Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > >> A virtualbox host environment would be detected automatically, and the >> following packages would get installed in that case: >> virtualbox-guest-dkms >> virtualbox-guest-utils

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
f ifconfig is the only reason why we should move everything, change $PATH and so on, please find a better excuse, because I'm not at all buying into that one! Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 04:28 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > On 08/08/2012 09:43 AM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Experienced users should be able to do this easily. And those who don't >> knwo what to do with the tools in */sbin/* probably don't want/need them >> in $PATH. > > > I think the topic in here is good d

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 06:21 PM, David Given wrote: > ifconfig (before this discussion I'd never even *heard* of ip) > This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one: "ifconfig is deprecated, please use ip instead" Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 08:07 PM, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > And BTW, ip command is harder to use and it rather should be in the > category 'admin tool' than in the 'user tool'. > That's the 2nd time we have someone writing this in this thread. However, ip is user accessible, while ifconfig isn't. So th

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 07:16 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > 121 packages, too many to even think about getting rid of ifconfig in the > short term... > I agree. However, proposing to put ifconfig in a user accessible way, when it is in fact the wrong tool, is going backward, not forward. Thomas -- To UNS

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 09:11 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > And ip is not standard (not present on every Linux systems), whereas > I don't know any system without ifconfig. > Then, what do you use to list multiple IPs on a single interface? ifconfig simply doesn't support it. IMHO, if there's distros wit

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 09:20 PM, Ulrich Dangel wrote: > Not all programs in > the sbin directories require root privileges. > Then they have nothing to do in sbin. I'm serious: *please file a bug* !!! :) > It is about providing good defaults for users. > Agreed. Which is why you should file a bug s

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/08/2012 10:10 PM, Ulrich Dangel wrote: > Many things are trivial but I think it would be best to ship good defaults in > Debian. And have all programs available for tab completion without the need to > specify sudo in front is in my opinion a good default. > > There is also a question how to

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/09/2012 06:14 PM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > I am aware of the shortcomings of ifconfig. However it is still a nice > and valid tool to just show the ip address the DHCP server assigned to a > machine (AFAIK DHCP servers only assign one IP address per interface) > With all the du

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/09/2012 09:54 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large > consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. > That's clearly *not* truth. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
g *now* what will be the *default* init system. Just that we are open to a new alternative. Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5025e9aa.7000...@debian.org

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/11/2012 05:14 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 11, Thomas Goirand wrote >> Exactly! And in this particular case, the "vendor" is RedHat, and >> the programs are systemd and udev. If we can have an alternative, >> using OpenRC and mdev, then I really

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/11/2012 10:29 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >>>> the programs are systemd and udev. If we can have an alternative, >>>> >^^ > > >> Please stop say

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/13/2012 04:50 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Waste of time, mdev lacks critical features like modules autoloading so > it is laughable to argue that it is a credible udev replacement for > any use case except (some) embedded systems. > > If the time will come the interested parties will fork ude

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/13/2012 05:20 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> As one wrote previously: mdev and OpenRC lack hostile upstreams! :) >> > They also lack solving large parts of the problem space. > I don't think anyone denies that fact. Hopefully, this will change. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/13/2012 03:44 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > I did start the initial Debian > packaging work last night though. > Is this available in a Git somewhere? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Bug#685042: ITP: libpam-ssh -- Authenticate using SSH keys

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
w versions. And for that, there's no need for an ITP. Thanks for your intention to adopt this package, Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/502cbd76.6080...@debian.org

Re: Bug#685042: ITP: libpam-ssh -- Authenticate using SSH keys

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/16/2012 11:42 PM, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> According to its PTS ( http://packages.qa.debian.org/libp/libpam-ssh.html ): >> [2011-12-03] libpam-ssh REMOVED from testing (Britney) >> [2011-12-02] Removed 1.92-14 from

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/17/2012 01:24 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > 3. Repacking the original tarball just to remove those files is extra > work. > Yeah, just annoying everyone for a minified jquery in upstream tarball is, to me, a bit too extreme to my taste as well, as we all know where it's coming from, and

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/17/2012 09:40 AM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > >> What I didn't know until recently is that the minified version in the >> source package should be removed (or the appropriate full version should >> be appended). >> > Do we also require

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/19/2012 09:49 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > As for > verification, having the source next to the minified version does not > guarantee anything about the minified version Right, which is why we should build "from source" (eg: minify ourselves the javascript libs). > all the more that we > don

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/20/2012 03:23 AM, Simon Josefsson wrote: > I believe differences like that are not important, compare how gcc > generate different binaries each time depending on parameters etc. > However, if a minified file is shipped that cannot be re-created at all > (due to no minifier) I don't think shi

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/20/2012 03:34 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Other minifiers (like yui-compressor) are considered not > reliable enough. Sorry that I asked you about this before reading this. So, could you tell in what way yui-compressor isn't considered not reliable enough? Does it crash? Or does it produce b

Re: can we (fully) release-goal decommissioning of trolls

2012-08-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/21/2012 06:47 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > For some pieces of the system, “down to > Windows level” would be quite an improvement. > Are you suggesting that we replace the start menu by a Sokoban game? Sorry, couldn't resist... :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ..

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
[About yui-compressor] On 08/21/2012 02:49 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > It is not used anymore and is therefore less tested and less > trustworthy. > Sorry for the dumb questions (which are kind of conflicting each other btw), but: - If the only problem is testing, can't it be tested, so we kno

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/22/2012 10:09 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Also please remember the Social Contract: > Our priorities are our users and free software. > > If I would remove an otherwise free piece of software I'm not using in > the binary package just because the original, non-minified version of it > is missi

Re: About the media types text/x-php and text/x-php-source

2012-08-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/24/2012 10:04 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear all, > > I note that neither Fedora nor Ubuntu systems associate the text/x-php > and text/x-php-source media types to .php files by default. > > Today, a rogue NMU on the mime-support package added these associations in > Debian. I intend to re

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/26/2012 03:37 PM, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Jonas, > > the Built-Using will documented in the next release of the Policy, thanks to > the input of the FTP team. > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=dbnpolicy/policy.git;a=commitdiff;h=4953fb7792b9fbe04c27dc817a2eb3cd9ab450b8 > > http://bug

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/29/2012 03:40 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The point here is whether having non-free material, which is in > distributed tarballs but hidden by dpkg-source, would constitute > inclusion of non-free material in what we call Debian. (Of course we're > talking about "main" here.) > > Personal

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/30/2012 07:15 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > nowadays it is clear that > the upstream maintainers of various stuff do not support a standalone > /usr mounted by the init scripts: if /usr is a standalone file system > then it must be mounted in the initramfs. > Instead of advertizing about (ho

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/30/2012 02:04 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > And I suppose Marco must remove all /usr dependencies from everything > that installs a udev hook too? > Why not? Is the only argument against that is that upstream took such decision, and that the work to be done is too big? Thomas -- To UNSUBS

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 11:39 AM, Serge wrote: > Many (most?) major successes in IT history were about inventing a good > standard communication interface to do things. IBM PC was successful > because it could be assembled from standard easily accessible components, > and was easy to upgrade by just replacin

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 03:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > It only requires us to ensure /usr is mounted before > init is started. > Which I don't think is a good idea. > - /usr on a separate filesystem without the use of an initramfs: not >supported... and no discernable user demand for this. >

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 06:55 PM, Riku Voipio wrote: > How is that different from having a botched / or /boot ? Why do you > think having a separate /usr will make / less prone to HD crashes? > You have / on RAID5 while /usr isn't? > Typically, I have / on 2 small RAID1 partitions making the array on the

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 11:04 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > I'm struggling to understand this. In the situation you outline (/ ok, > /usr, /var, /tmp, swap on another RAID which is hosed) -- whatever service > the machine was offering is surely not being offered anymore (/ being too > small to be useful for anyth

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 11:52 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > I guess I can understand that you want your /usr to be resizeable Not only this. I want it on a RAID10 or RAID5 which goes faster than my / that is hosted in a slower RAID1. > but > really, life is so much simpler when you just go ahead and create

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 08/31/2012 03:50 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > That means there is someone who will pester other maintainers to “fix” > their init scripts so that they work with another half-baked init > implementation. > Ah... And that will not happen with systemd? Come on, we all know that we will have to

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/01/2012 04:06 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > There should be at least some compelling technical arguments for > OpenRC. There are, and they have been listed already. It goes from a more manageable code (for some parts, the same feature as in systemd, but with a code that is 5 times s

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-09-02 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/02/2012 03:57 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 02:29:20AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 08/31/2012 11:52 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: >>> I guess I can understand that you want your /usr to be resizeable >> >> Not only this. I want it o

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-09-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Serge, I'm in the favor of having a try with OpenRC, and see what we can do, but here, your post is a bit naive at least in some cases. Let me explain why. On 09/05/2012 11:47 AM, Serge wrote: >> I don't see how these people help Debian if they start pushing their >> own solution instead of helpi

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/06/2012 05:37 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 05.09.2012 23:24, schrieb martin f krafft: > >> I said fglrx — because its binary-only version caused regular >> crashes and headaches for Linux users. >> >> > Which is ATM more useful as nvidia prop. ones. And AMD (not the ATI in > the pa

Re: greater popularity of Debian on AMD64?

2012-09-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/10/2012 09:44 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: Why make things more complicated. What is the rationale to pick i686 over others now. Why change to x86-64 which is AMD origin. If slashed to listing are list of vender released names, it should be (AMD64/Intel 64). We picked one archive identifier at o

Re: Gnome classic mode

2012-09-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/11/2012 08:07 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: M-x thread-hijacking-mode Josselin Mouette (11/09/2012): Just because these people are noisy doesn’t make them numerous. Furthermore, Debian (and Ubuntu too IIRC) makes “GNOME classic” available right from the login manager, with the default inst

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/17/2012 05:56 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, another recent addition to piuparts is running debsums to see whether shipped files are being incorrectly modified. This feature is in a experimental stage and not available in the git repository, yet. So far I have seen these problems: * pac

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/17/2012 10:03 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: To cite http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt: Packages' /etc/default scripts must be treated as configuration files. Which are not the same things as conffiles. I of course agree with Marco. BTW, "conffil

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
ven though I will not use it because of the method that it was forced upon me. And yes, OO is still a better suite than LO. Apache has stepped up and made the needed changes. Why is it better? The patch statistics don't agree with you, unless this has changed recently. It is now time for yo

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 12:25 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: I've never seen somebody starting to use "conffile" when he really meant "configuration file". I've never seen it either. But I've seen many instances of the following: - A knowledgeable DD write about "conffiles" - a newbie writing "yes but my config

Re: Comments on Mate DE

2012-09-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/20/2012 01:58 AM, superuserlaptop wrote: This to me is a form of sabotage. It turns out that "superuserlaptop" is using a Squeeze system, half upgraded, with a MATE Wheezy unofficial repository, both Stable, Wheezy and SID repositories in his sources.list but without doing a dist-upgrade,

Re: Changes to Debian Maintainer upload permissions

2012-09-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 09/23/2012 11:49 PM, Joachim Breitner wrote: Also, the real time-consuming work for us is when we need to upload all>450 packages with no source change, or a trivial one. Someone assigned with such task as modifying (even trivially) and uploading 450 packages should definitively be(come) a DD

Re: Apport for Debian

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 03:06 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > 1) Duplicate bug reports: There are high possibilities that we could see > a sudden increase in the number of bug reports, many duplicates. This is > something I'm not sure how we want to evaluate. We could give apport a > try, and leave it to the

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 06:05 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 12 mai 2013 à 19:40 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit : >> With all due respect, this might be utter bullshit, but is at least >> [citation needed]. I have yet to see a failing pid 1 (be that sysv, >> upstart or systemd). Acquiring data on f

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/14/2013 04:51 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Yes of course, because a different init system will magically make your > other disk bootable. This is absolutely *NOT* what I said. Nothing in my message compares this or that init system. I just replied that when you have apache, it's easier to r

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 07:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web >>> server, displaying a default web page is

Bug#708321: ITP: python3-pyparsing -- Python parsing module, Python3 package

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python3-pyparsing Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Paul McGuire * URL : http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python parsing

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/14/2013 06:07 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > He missed the fact that you were contrasting one non-crashing init, that > is capable of restarting dead services, with another non-crashing > init setup that is not able to do so (without help). Oh, indeed I missed that point! Thanks Phil. Thomas -

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/15/2013 05:52 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > I have still hard time to consider that you absolutely did not mention > something related to a bootloader. I believe Phil Hands explained better than I would what I tried to explain. On 05/15/2013 05:52 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > Like in the previo

Re: Packaging releases without a tarball (sometimes)

2013-05-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/17/2013 01:02 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > >> I am having trouble with my package jquery-jplayer (a JavaScript library >> with Flash fallback) and I would like to ask for advice on how to proceed > I would suggest asking upstream again t

Re: virtualbox moved to contrib

2013-05-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/18/2013 08:30 PM, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that virtualbox moved from main to contrib (via > http://jenkins.debian.net/job/chroot-installation_sid_install_full_desktop/) > and while I personally don't use virtualbox anymore I think this is news to > be > announced (henc

Re: [Piuparts-devel] simplifying running piuparts

2013-05-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/21/2013 06:35 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Also integrate it with git-pbuilder/pbuilder/cowbuilder to run > piuparts inside the created clean(ish) chroot, so it's less time > consuming. > > O. This really would be nice, indeed!!! I've been asking for that feature already, and I am happy to see th

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/22/2013 04:53 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > - Neither systemd nor upstart are likely to be ported to kfreebsd soon, > as they both rely on many Linux-specific features and interfaces. Though it should be easy enough to port OpenRC to kFreeBSD and Hurd, once it completes its support for the c

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/23/2013 01:45 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I understand it will be a pain for Ubuntu if Debian picks a different > init system. I don’t think this is relevant for the discussion, though. It might be very relevant for many of us that our package works on *both* Debian and Ubuntu (and other d

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/23/2013 02:35 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Honestly, these personal accusations against Lennart are getting old and > boring. Don't you really have any other good argument to bring up > against systemd other than you dislike *one* of the systemd developers?* > > [...] > > * As you

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/23/2013 03:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 05/23/2013 06:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> * As you may know, systemd is developed by a large amount of >>>contributors. >> >> If you are tired of seeing the same arguments, > > Personal

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/23/2013 03:15 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I have the (possibly wrong) impression that OpenRC is less advanced > technically than systemd and upstart, and lacks many of their advantages > For example, according to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=391945 > which is linked from > http://w

Re: Status of OpenRC in Debian (was: Debian systemd survey)

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
-maint/openrc.git it currently has the lsb.pl script as a patch over here: debian/patches/lsb-header-support.patch though it doesn't have the python implementation of Bill Wang. Roger, Patrick, Bill, heroxbd, your comments on the above are more than welcome. I hope I didn't

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/24/2013 04:15 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:07:06AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 05/23/2013 03:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> How on earth does that contradict with the fact that 40%, i.e. >>> the minority of all co

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