Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 04:51:10, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Chris Knadle writes: > >> On Saturday, March 17, 2012 21:53:18, Russ Allbery wrote: > >>> Hence the Debian patent policy. > >>> > &

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Some public discussion with the repository maintainer about this might be > > warranted. Such would be worhwhile even if the outcome is not what is > > desired, becaus

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-18 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 17:13:55, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-03-18 at 04:48pm, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Sunday, March 18, 2012 13:23:13, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > On 03/18/2012 09:50 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Some public discussion with the re

Re: thoughts on blocking and downgrade attacks agains secure APT

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Knadle
t least) two attack vector may be left (which is > basically the same as when blocking whole repositories): If you look at 'man 5 apt_preferences' you'll see that apt gives default preference to installing the most up-to-date version. Downgrading a package requires root access, a

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
y bugs in the future are caused by systemd/upstart! The above case where I'm wondering about how systemd would handle it, because it sounds like systemd might see that gdm/X failed to start and would try to start it again repeatedly to no avail. [I have not yet tried systemd to test for th

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
e at LinuxConf in Australia last March, which I found informative. This is linked to from [2], where there is also a link to a PDF of the slides. [1] https://blip.tv/linuxconfau/beyond-init-systemd-4715015 [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna.

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
[It's been a year since the video, so perhaps some or many of them have been updated.] But to answer your concern, someone said it best during one of the talks during DebConf10: "Debian is software, and software can be changed." i.e there's no reason to fear, regardle

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > > case, daemons need to be patched to work correctly with systemd. > > This is simply not true.

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:06:48, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 23:59, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Lennart Pottering during his talk said that daemons needed to be patched > > to fully work with systemd, but didn't say specifically what they needed > > to be patched

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:23:11, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Right now the situation may be

Re: test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
g and building our package - > AT> or to put it with your words "after it left the factory". The proposed test would not have caught this problem, because the library is built separately from apache2, and apache2 had not been updated AFAIK. The bottom line is that even though it sounds

Re: mosh ITP not done, just package name taken over

2012-03-25 Thread Chris Knadle
turns into a situation where a prospective new packager then needs to figure out how to re-assign the ITP to someone else, (because hijacking an ITP is just rude) before working through debian-mentors to get a sponsored upload. This isn't simply theoretical, as a package I've been slowly

[OT] NM vs. wicd (was: Re: On init in Debian)

2012-03-29 Thread Chris Knadle
7;ve been using wicd for over two years and never had this problem, but I'm also running a custom-built kernel (and have been for a long time). Any idea why wicd would prevent your laptop from suspending? The best first guess I have is perhaps a bug with the wireless card driver or fi

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-04 Thread Chris Knadle
ve. [I can see how it does from an administration perspective.] [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-alternatives.html -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debia

Re: where is the DNSSEC root key?

2012-10-05 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44:10 PM Philipp Kern wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 03:10:01PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Last I looked into this [which has admittedly been a while], Bind 9 was > > the > > only DNS server that had actually implemented DNSSEC, and the o

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Knadle
Out of curiosity, how would a user /know/ whether a package has been built via a buildd rather than on a DD's local machine? -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Discarding uploaded binary packages

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 12:45:14, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:28:14PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 05:04:55, martin f krafft wrote: > > > also sprach Holger Levsen [2012.10.16.0945 +0200]: > > > > > We

Re: Introducing codesearch.debian.net, a regexp code search engine

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:05:43PM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > I hereby announce a new Debian project: Debian Code Search. [...] > You can use the search engine at http://codesearch.debian.net/ > Here are a few sample queries: > • http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=workaround+p

Bug#693342: ITP: dhrystone -- a popular benchmark for CPU/compiler performance measurement

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Wilson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Wilson * Package name: dhrystone Version : 2.1 Upstream Author : Reinhold P. Weicker * URL : www.netlib.org/benchmark/dhry-c * License : Public Domain Programming Lang: C Description : a popular benchmark

Re: Gentoo guys starting a fork of udev

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 01:20:42PM -0600, Kevin Toppins wrote: > I do not want to fight with you. > > I do not want to silence you. > > I do not want to _force_ you to think a certain way. But I would be > pleased if you would be willing to try a different way of thinking. Me too, please read: h

Re: Canonical pushes upstart into user session - systemd developer complains

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:43:07PM +0200, Andrej N. Gritsenko wrote: > Hello! > > Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez has written on Saturday, 24 November, at 19:20: > >FYI, Yet another episode of the Linux init drama: > > > >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions >

Re: Really, about udev, not init sytsems

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 03:40:41PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > the discussion that systemd is a bad design because it uses the same > configuration file syntax as Windows ini files or XDG .desktop files, > adding the statement that these are too difficult to parse. If you are referin

Re: Mplayer not running with user privileges

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 03:47:27PM +0400, Игорь Пашев wrote: > 2012/12/7 Andrei POPESCU > > This is list is for development of Debian, your question should be > > posted on debian-user instead (or one of the debian-user- > > lists). > > > This makes me think that the right list have been choosen

Re: Debian bugs #800000 and #1000000 contest

2013-02-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:16:06PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 08:23:57 -0800 > Tyler MacDonald wrote: > > > "An obscure french DD". Wow, what a way to describe a person. Did that > > person kill your pet squirrel or something? :-) > > Christian is referring to himself. He m

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-26 Thread Chris Knadle
nager or wicd mentioned there, nor mentioned in the Installation Guide [3] for Wheezy. Suggestions? [1]: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688772#464 [2]: http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata [3]: http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/install.txt.en -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-02-27 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 07:39:44, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: > > When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was > > "network-manager can be installed, then disabled", but how to do that > > wasn't docume

Re: Bug#688772: [CTTE #688772] Dependency of meta-gnome on network-manager

2013-03-12 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, February 27, 2013 07:39:44, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 27.02.2013 00:50, Chris Knadle wrote: > > When this was brought up in the bug report, the response was > > "network-manager can be installed, then disabled", but how to do that > > wasn't docume

Re: Availability of Debian official cloud images from debian.org

2013-03-14 Thread Chris Fordham
e. Does it make sense to everyone else? Could we, in a near future, > imagine having these images creation, included in the official release > build process, together with the CDs, DVDs, etc.? > > Cheers, > > Thomas > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-cloud-

Re: Update on R 3.0.0 migration (Was: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R)

2013-04-06 Thread Chris Lawrence
ted almost all of my packages over and it makes life easier. Probably down the road it'd be good to create some lintian checks for things like this dependency. (The holy grail would be to verify build dependencies and binary dependencies against the upstream DESCRIPTION.) Chris -- To UNSUBSC

Re: so long, and thanks for all the fish

2013-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 01:55:24AM +0100, Aneurin Price wrote: > On 4 April 2013 18:28, wrote: > > > There is apparently no mode of argument, or "style of > > communications", which is capable of penetrating the Debian > > bureaucracy. It is impervious, even to patches which have been > > previou

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
the text-user interface of aptitude > launched by typing "aptitude" is interactive interface. Am I right? Yes. aptitude has an interactive interface available, apt-get does not. I think the point of the note in the release-notes is to point users to aptitude for an interactive termin

Re: Interactive package management via aptitude

2013-04-08 Thread Chris Knadle
for the resolver myself. > I'm not sure if it makes sense to recommend aptitude in its present state. I don't personally feel this way, but I can understand why you do. It can sometimes be tricky to work around package conflicts. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump

Re: Bug#706160: general: it should be easier for ordinary developers to work with Debian packages

2013-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 03:04:52PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:20:53PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: > > dh_make -f ../foo-1.tar.gz > > dpkg-buildpackage > > I think one valid point the OP makes which each of these suggestions — in > isolation — seem to m

Bug#729885: ITP: squeezelite -- Lightweight headless Squeezebox emulator

2013-11-18 Thread Chris Boot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Boot * Package name: squeezelite Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Adrian Smith * URL : https://code.google.com/p/squeezelite/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C Description : Lightweight headless

Re: Debian Developers team in Launchpad

2013-12-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:08:06AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 08:17:16AM +0900, Tae Wong wrote: > > Tagliamonte: > > Your native language is Korean and if you'll need to post questions > > about Debian in Korean language. > > I will not buy this record, it is scratched.

Re: Bug#736604: ITP: r10k -- Smarter Puppet deployment, powered by killer robots

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 03:04:33PM +0100, Sebastien Badia wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Sebastien Badia > > * Package name: r10k > Version : 1.1.2 > Upstream Author : Adrien Thebo > * URL : https://github.com/adrienthebo/r10k > * License

Re: openrc: Updated patches making openrc work properly on Debian GNU/Hurd

2014-01-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 03:29:28AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 25, Svante Signell wrote: > > > Whatever you have decided about Linux only, this is relevant > > information. Debian is about versatility in the Unix/Posix way, not any > No, it's not. Next. Does the NEXT OS still exist? SCNR

Re: Bug#736826: ITP: tea4cups -- The Swiss Army's knife of advanced CUPS administrators

2014-01-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:02:55AM +0100, Mike Gabriel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Mike Gabriel > > * Package name: tea4cups > Version : 3.13~alpha1+svn3565 > Upstream Author : Jerome Alet > * URL : http://www.pykota.com/software/tea4cups > *

Re: Bug#737563: ITP: telegram-cli -- Command-line interface for Telegram

2014-02-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:52:41PM +, Cleto Martín wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Cleto Martín" > > * Package name: telegram-cli > Version : 0.1 > Upstream Author : Vitaly Valtman > * URL : https://github.com/vysheng/tg > * License :

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
ny activity for almost two years. For cases where the maintainer is unresponsive for an extended period, I'd recommend requesting a new version via a 'wishlist' bug, then releasing a new version as a -0.1 NMU. Others (myself included) have done this successfully. As alwa

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
Adding Gregor Herrmann to this because he and I were looking to work on #672198 but we both were swamped with other work. On Friday, February 07, 2014 00:02:16 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:27:51PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Thursday, February 06, 2014

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-06 Thread Chris Knadle
Leaving off the MIA team on this reply, mainly because I don't think this is "news" to them per se and I'd rather not "spam" them. On Friday, February 07, 2014 02:54:09 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 06:56:04PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: &

Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz

2014-02-07 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, February 07, 2014 17:09:27 Ian Jackson wrote: > Chris Knadle writes ("Re: Packaging of stunnel / MIA for Luis Rodrigo > Gallardo Cruz"): ... > > > Well, here's the typical scenario: > >- maintainer stops maintaining a package, for whatever rea

Bug#738289: O: cakephp -- MVC rapid application development framework for PHP

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
ntains the bake.php and acl.php scripts for creating (or "baking") CakePHP applications and modifying Access Control Lists. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Bug#738291: O: codespeak-lib -- Advanced Python development support library

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
ioning and documentation perspectives. It includes: . * py.path: path abstractions over local and Subversion files * py.code: dynamic code compile and traceback printing support Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `-

Bug#738292: O: fabric -- Simple Pythonic remote deployment tool

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
deploying Rails applications. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Bug#738293: O: giftrans -- Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
mon Description: Convert any GIF file into a GIF89a Allows for setting a specific transparent or background color of GIF images as well as changing colors, adding or removing comments. Also provides the ability to analyze GIF contents. Regards, -- ,''`. : :'

Bug#738298: O: pdfrw -- PDF file manipulation library

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
its internal object format. This allows, for example, Form XObjects to be used inside reportlab. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#738297: O: mtpfs -- FUSE filesystem for Media Transfer Protocol devices

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
m3u files. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- 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/20140209000510.0db4d...@sakaki.chris-lamb.co.uk

Bug#738296: O: jasmin-sable -- Java class (.class) file assembler

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
, written in the Java Virtual Machine instruction set in an assembler-like syntax. . Jasmin converts these input files into binary Java class files (.class) suitable for executing on an Java Virtual Machine. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `

Bug#738299: O: python-django-debug-toolbar -- Embedded debugging toolbar for Django projects

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
s highlighted. * Current Django version * HTTP headers * Total requests, time, hits and misses of the cache. * Which templates were rendered the context provided to each template. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.o

Bug#738302: O: reinteract -- Worksheet-based graphical Python shell

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
data analysis using NumPy and SciPy. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#738301: O: python-xmlrunner -- Python test runner that produces machine-readable results

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
rk. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Bug#738300: O: python-django-treebeard -- Efficient implementations of tree data structures for Django

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
ach one has it's own strengths and weaknesses but share the same API, so it’s easy to switch between them. . This package contains the documentation in searchable HTML format. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org

Bug#738305: O: swi-prolog-doc -- Documentation for SWI-Prolog interpreter and XPCE

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
PDF and HTML format for SWI-Prolog and XPCE/Prolog. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Bug#738304: O: rst2pdf -- ReportLab-based reStructuredText to PDF renderer

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
egards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- 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/20140209001801.0ae0e...@sakaki.chris-lamb.co.uk

Bug#738303: O: robocode -- Java programming game based on battle tanks

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
rds, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- 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/20140209001727.4075f...@sakaki.chris-lamb.co.uk

Bug#738306: O: trac-spamfilter -- Spam-prevention plugin for Trac

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- 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.o

Bug#738307: O: pyprotocols -- Open Protocols and Component Adaptation for Python

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
ns are listed in the documentation.) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org `- -- 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/20140209003309.57b7a...@sakaki.chris-lamb.co.uk

Bug#738308: O: bustle -- D-Bus activity visualiser

2014-02-08 Thread Chris Lamb
bus-monitor. . Calls are displayed using Message Sequence Charts, a succinct way of representing entities and interactions over time. It can also output data in Graphviz format. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org

Bug#738334: RFA: socat -- multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Taylor
environment (su and chroot) for running client or server shell scripts inside network connections. Socat supports sctp as of 1.7.0. Thanks, Chris Taylor signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#738336: RFA: rotix - A program to generate rotational obfuscations

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Taylor
allows you to generate rotational obfuscations, like the world-famous ROT-13. Note that this is not an encryption pack. . Install Rotix if you want to generate ROT-13 variants. Thanks, Chris Taylor signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#738334: RFA: socat -- multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer

2014-02-09 Thread Chris Taylor
I apologize this RFA was sent in error. Ignore it, it has already been adopted some 6-months ago. Shouldn't send out RFAs at 3AM. -Chris On Feb 9, 2014 3:54 AM, "Andrew Shadura" wrote: > Hello, > > On Feb 9, 2014 12:12 PM, "Chris Taylor" wrote: > &

Re: Bug#727708: Fsck SystemD and its developers and its users. GR to override this please.

2014-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 04:18:50PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:51:33PM +0100, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > Well if a bug can be solved by killing the buggy process and getting better > > functionality than when the process is running is certainly a very very bad > > bug!

Re: Need advice on building a package

2014-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 12:06:10PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > This mailinglist is, after all, a list about developing Debian. If your > interest is only in *using* Debian e.g. for own package development, > then our debian-user lists are more appropriate for that: > https://lists.debian.o

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de): > > On 02/15/2014 09:22 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote: > > > So, before doing so: will that be helpful? > > > > I think most people simply don't configure PulseAudio

Re: default init on non-Linux platforms

2014-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 06:31:12PM +, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 07:18:30PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > [0] Can we haz a release name? > > > > Sure. It's Debian 8.0, "zurg". [0] > > Neil > [0] Note: may be a lie. Umm, Debian 9.0? -- "If you're not careful, t

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

2014-02-21 Thread Chris Knadle
to fix it [2]. I don't personally think this was because of malice or conspiracy -- it's far more likely to be some kind of technical misunderstanding or a design issue than anything else. [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/2/303 [2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484 -- Chr

Bug#739997: ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-24 Thread Chris Knadle
#x27;m familiar with maintaining this package -- I put together the current 1.2.4-0.2 package in sid and jessie. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Knadle
Ron -- I believe the BTS and PTS likely didn't notify you via email, so I wanted to let you know that I filed an ITA [1] on the mumble package yesterday. I'm open to discussing this if your or anyone wishes to. Thanks. [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739997

Re: Bug#739997: ITA: mumble -- Low latency VoIP client

2014-02-27 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, February 27, 2014 11:12:52 Patrick Matthäi wrote: > Am 24.02.2014 20:50, schrieb Chris Knadle: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: normal > > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > > > > > > This package hasn't been orphaned, but

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:18:41AM +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:16:15 Undefined User wrote: > > The problem is that right now Debian project is changing its default > > desktop environment, and I think that this is not a good move. Of course, > > it all depends on where the

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-04 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this mailing list.] On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 10:03:46AM -0300, Undefined User wrote: > Well, it's almost impossible to avoid personal judgments on this matter. > This involves personal taste. But when talking about "new users" or > "not-that-advanced users", I'm really sug

Re: Debian default desktop environment

2014-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:27:00PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > previously on this list Jakub Wilk contributed: > > > * Gunnar Wolf , 2014-04-04, 23:22: > > >- Media player: mplayer (on libcaca, of course) > > > > With its 4 RC bugs, it doesn't look like mplayer is going to be part of > > jess

Re: Why Debian

2014-04-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:43:29AM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > I love democracy, where everyone has a say and have a chance to make > the changes they want rather than depending on someone. Just remember that Democracy is where 13 lions and 5 sheep vote for what to have for dinner. :( -- "If

Re: Bug#747920: ITP: libdatabase-dumptruck -- document-oriented interface to a SQLite database

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:56:34AM +0200, Lubomir Rintel wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Debian Perl Group > > * Package name: libdatabase-dumptruck > Version : 1.2 > Upstream Author : Lubomir Rintel > * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Database

Re: Bug#749099: ITP: conv -- Simple ASCII,binary,decimal,hex converter

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:53:15PM -0300, Marcio de Souza Olivera wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marcio de Souza Olivera > > * Package name: conv > Version : 0.02 > Upstream Author : Xfuw89 > * URL : https://github.com/xfuw89/BinDecHexAscii > * L

Re: Bug#750546: ITP: sluice -- rate limiting data piping tool

2014-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Colin Ian King > > * Package name: sluice > Version : 0.01.00 > Upstream Author : Colin King > * URL : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~cking/sluice > * License

Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Warburton * Package name: ocportal Version : 6.1.1 Upstream Author : Chris Graham * URL : http://www.ocportal.com * License : CPAL Programming Lang: PHP Description : ocPortal is a Content Management

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > Programming Lang: PHP > > Description : ocPortal is a Content Management System for building > > and maintaining a dynamic website > >

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
capable of some things. As an example, ocPortal uses "swfupload" which may require me to wait on ITP bug #609110, although I don't mind taking over its packaging if its activity has ceased (I'm not familiar with the protocol for handling such cases). Thanks, Chris Wab

Re: Bug#625865: ITP: ocportal -- ocPortal is a Content Management System for building and maintaining a dynamic website

2011-05-06 Thread Chris Warburton
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:29 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Friday, May 06, 2011 11:23:50 AM Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 09:11 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > > On Friday, May 06, 2011 08:56:21 AM Chris Warburton wrote: > > >

Re: Request for testing: /run and initscripts

2011-05-10 Thread chris h
Roger, I could not find any references to debootstrap installations with the new /run setup. How is debootstrap - and any other program installing Debian - supposed to handle /run, esp. with the initscripts postinst detecting chroots and it not bringing in the preferred setup? Thanks, -ch (Pl

Re: Anonymous read-only access and Vcs-* [Re: Alioth status update, take 3]

2011-06-09 Thread chris h
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > [various URLs have been fixed] http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/ has a link to http://git.debian.org/?s=pkg-java . This doesn't give a flat 404, but an index page that's rather useless. I suppose a flat redirect from http://git.debian.org

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-05 Thread Chris Knadle
rtunity for the startup script to give a useful message that the daemon wasn't started, and where to look to change that. I don't know how well this idea scales, and of course it would require a lot of repackaging work, but it seemed to be worth mentioning, as it seems some packages

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Knadle
ent package. File Package == === /bin/bzless -> bzmorebzip2 /bin/bzmore bzip2 /bin/zless gzip /usr/bin/less -> /bin/less less /bin/lessless /usr/bin/xzless xz-uti

Re: /usr/share/doc/ files and gzip/xz/no compression

2011-08-15 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, August 15, 2011, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > After all, it isn't called gzless. > > > > Actually, that's not far off. Right now these functions are > > spread across 4 different binaries, eac

Bug#638862: ITP: pdfrw -- PDF file manipulation library.

2011-08-22 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: pdfrw Upstream Author : Patrick Maupin * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pdfrw/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : PDF file

Bug#639334: ITP: python-bulkwhois -- Python interfaces to popular bulk WHOIS servers such as Shadowserver and Team Cymru.

2011-08-25 Thread Chris Horsley
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Horsley * Package name: python-bulkwhois Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Chris Horsley * URL : https://github.com/csirtfoundry/BulkWhois/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python

Re: length of a package extended description

2015-01-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 01:24:20PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-10 13:34:37 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Nonsense, the format is trivial and stable. > > I've never seen that it was stable. > > > A quick one-line-ish fix for this (requires a modern shell) is: > > > > apt-cache

Re: Bug#775456: ITP: sankore -- interactive whiteboard interface

2015-01-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 04:41:22PM -0400, David Prévot wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: David Prévot > > * Package name: sankore > Version : 2.5.1 > Upstream Author : Nicolas Nenon > * URL : http://open-sankore.org/ > * License : GPL-3 >

Re: Who gets an email when with bugreports [was: Re: Unauthorised activity surrounding tbb package]

2015-01-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 01:03:52AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 08:37 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > > > I'm going to put together a bit more firm of a proposal in the next few > > > weeks, but I think that basically e

Re: Bug#780155: ITP: baculum -- Baculum WebGUI tool for Bacula Community program

2015-03-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 09, 2015 at 10:13:31PM +0100, gani wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Marcin Haba > > * Package name: baculum > Version : 7.0+git20150208 > Upstream Author : Marcin Haba > * URL : http://www.bacula.org/ > * License : AGPLv3 > Pr

Re: Facilitating external repositories

2015-06-06 Thread Chris Knadle
As the debian-keyring package would come from the main archive, that would at least have a trust path to the signing key of the main distribution repository. That's what I can think of at the moment anyway. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5573bf41.8040...@coredump.us

ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Boot
If you'd like to see what's cooking so far for the next upload of ppp, please feel free to have a poke around the 'develop' branch in collab-maint/pkg-ppp.git [1]. All comments gratefully received. 1: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/pkg-ppp.git/log/?h=d

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-07 Thread Chris Boot
On 07/06/15 11:49, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 07.06.2015 um 12:26 schrieb Chris Boot: >> network-manager only has pppd as a Recommends despite shipping a pppd >> plugin. > > Small correction: network-manager has a versioned Recommends and a > versioned Breaks against p

Re: ppp plugins and dependencies

2015-06-14 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, I'm emailing again because I realise I got the per-package QA email addresses all wrong, but also because I don't think we came to any real resolution on this. My original message: On 07/06/15 11:26, Chris Boot wrote: > Hi all, > > Apologies for the long email, b

Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

2015-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 08:00:52AM -0700, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > On Jul 15 2015, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > As Jakub was saying: just starting it up without even visiting a site yet > > will > > do a POST and a *few dozen* GET requests. Shouldn't it be waiting with its > > checks until it actually kn

Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-23 Thread Chris Lamb
e software community in general) unless there are strong objections I intend to raise the severity of these wishlist issues to "important" once the toolchain changes to dpkg and debhelper land in sid. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

Re: Raising the severity of reproduciblity issues to "important"

2015-08-24 Thread Chris Lamb
, or simply initial ideas on how to start fixing them. Is there anything else that we could be doing that you think would help here? Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-

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