Re: debconf as a registry

2014-10-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/17/2014 04:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Quoting Thomas Goirand (2014-10-17 09:51:04) >> On 10/17/2014 01:41 PM, Bas Wijnen wrote: >>> I don't have a bug tracker yet, but I can upload this to unstable if >>> people don't complain too much about the co

Re: BSP - chasse aux bugs - Novemb{re,er} 14-16 2014, Paris, France

2014-10-17 Thread Reuben Thomas
2014-10-17 19:10 GMT+01:00 Sylvestre Ledru : > The English version is at the end of the email. > > Next November, 14 to 16th, a Bug Squashing Party (BSP) is organized in > Mozilla offices [1] in Paris. > That should be "This November". -- http://rrt.sc3d.org

Re: apt-get install sysvinit-core removes gnome?

2014-10-19 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
On Sun Oct 19, 2014 09:32:54AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > David Kalnischkies: > > Selecting one package in an or-group is a grand example of people not > > understand their tools although the policy is simple and logic: If it > > isn't impossible to let it win, the first alternative wins. If

Re: debconf as a registry

2014-10-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
can have a look into >> openstack-pkg-tools, which holds the logic. However, really, the >> pkgos_inifile (inside pkgos_func) would need some rework to make it go >> faster. And I mean it: A WAY faster, not just stupidly horribly slow >> like it currently is. > > How many gigabytes is your ini file? If speed is an issue, something > needs to be done about what's stored in there... Quite big. Multiple thousands of lines easily... 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: https://lists.debian.org/5445232b.7030...@debian.org

Re: containers/chroot to allow ABI breakage is the wrong approach (was: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init scripts? =))

2014-10-21 Thread Thomas Goirand
ill ship their software. Let's hope that distributions like Debian will continue to do things right, and that upstream authors will stop doing so many ABI/API breakage giving so much work to the release team. 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: https://lists.debian.org/5446178a.4020...@debian.org

Re: containers/chroot to allow ABI breakage is the wrong approach

2014-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an upstream >> author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write an email to >> him/her, and exp

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Thomas Koch
that provides a list of known unofficial repositories along with their signing keys. Then users could choose additional repositories and also choose if they want to trust the signing keys and the good intentions and knowledge of the persons running the unofficial repositories. Regards, Thomas

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-10-29 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/29/2014 12:54 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 03:58:04PM +0200, Juerg Haefliger wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >>> >>> On 07/18/2014 07:49 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>>>>

Bug#767344: ITP: ruby-raemon -- framework for building UNIX daemons

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: ruby-raemon Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : NuLayer Inc. * URL : http://github.com/nulayer/raemon * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : framework for building

Bug#767349: ITP: ruby-symboltable -- symbols-only hash for Ruby

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: ruby-symboltable Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Michael Jackson * URL : http://mjijackson.github.com/symboltable * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : symbols

Bug#767450: ITP: python-web.py -- framework to make web apps

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-web.py Version : 0.37 Upstream Author : Anand Chitipothu * URL : https://github.com/webpy/webpy * License : Public domain Programming Lang: Python Description : framework to

Bug#767453: ITP: python-dbutils -- database connections for multi-threaded environments

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-dbutils Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Christoph Zwerschke * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/DBUtils * License : Open Software License 2.1 Programming Lang: Python

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
ch images would be a nice add-on for end > users but I can understand if there's resentment. Then a wiki page seems more appropriate. Everyone can edit the wiki, so it's fair enough. Though even this way, I think it's best to just ship the images through cdimage.de

Re: Where to upload official OpenStack Debian images?

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
ec2/openstack/etc compatible images hosted > on cdimage, which users then may upload into a cloud environment and > launch them. > Debian policy is about packaging only. > This is more in-line with good intentions / Debian social contract. Exactly what I think, and written better than I just did

Re: Bug#767450: ITP: python-web.py -- framework to make web apps

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/31/2014 02:35 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Thomas Goirand > > * Package name: python-web.py > Version : 0.37 > Upstream Author : Anand Chitipothu > * URL : https://github.com/webpy/webpy >

Bug#767513: ITP: python-nose-timer -- timer plugin for nosetests

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-nose-timer Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Mahmoud Abdelkader * URL : https://github.com/mahmoudimus/nose-timer * License : BSD-and-Expat-dual-license Programming Lang: Python

Bug#767515: ITP: python-nose-parameterized -- decorator for parameterized testing with Nose

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-nose-parameterized Version : 0.3.4 Upstream Author : David Wolever * URL : https://github.com/wolever/nose-parameterized * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python

Bug#767522: ITP: python-sphinxcontrib.plantuml -- PlantUML extension for Sphinx

2014-10-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-sphinxcontrib.plantuml Version : 0.5 Upstream Author : Yuya Nishihara * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-plantuml * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python

Bug#768942: ITP: python-rudolf -- colour output plugin for the nose testing framework

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-rudolf Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : John J. Lee * URL : https://github.com/bitprophet/rudolf * License : ZPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Python Description : colour output

Bug#768952: ITP: python-invoke -- Pythonic task execution

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-invoke Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : Jeff Forcier * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/invoke/0.9.0 * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#768955: ITP: python-invocations -- reusable invoke tasks

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-invocations Version : 0.6.2 Upstream Author : Jeff Forcier * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/invocations * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#768956: ITP: python-fabric -- tool for remote execution and deployment over SSH

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-fabric Version : 1.10.0 Upstream Author : Jeff Forcier * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Fabric * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : tool for

Re: Release Team Sprint Results

2014-11-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
ve to file unblocks during the freeze to just add support for that. It's also super cool to be able to talk about Buster rather than Jessie+2. And by the way, Stretch will be super nice on t-shirts and all ! :) Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@li

Bug#769283: ITP: python-oslo.middleware -- various WSGI middleware components for OpenStack

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-oslo.middleware Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Developers * URL : https://github.com/openstack/oslo.middleware * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python

Bug#769287: ITP: python-oslo.concurrency -- concurrency and locks for OpenStack projects

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-oslo.concurrency Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack developers * URL : https://github.com/openstack/oslo.concurrency * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
no sense to me: in what way are they more competent, and why should they have more power than others? Like many, I'm sad to see Joey going. But the way to have him come back isn't by adding more complexity to our constitution. In fact, it'd be quite the opposite: he wishes for techni

Bug#769421: ITP: python-pygit2 -- bindings for libgit2

2014-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pygit2 Version : 0.21.4 Upstream Author : J. David Ibáñez * URL : https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 * License : GPLv2-with-linking-exception Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#769427: ITP: python-pygit2 -- bindings for libgit2

2014-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pygit2 Version : 0.21.4 Upstream Author : J. David Ibanez * URL : https://github.com/libgit2/pygit2 * License : GPLv2-with-linking-exception Programming Lang: Python, C

Bug#769453: ITP: python-xmlbuilder -- create xml/(x)html files

2014-11-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-xmlbuilder Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Kostiantyn Danylov aka koder * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xmlbuilder * License : LGPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#769516: ITP: liberasurecode -- support of multiple erasure code backends

2014-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: liberasurecode Version : 0.9.10 Upstream Author : Eric Lambert * URL : https://bitbucket.org/tsg-/liberasurecode * License : BSD-style Programming Lang: C Description : support of

Bug#769519: ITP: python-pyeclib -- interface for implementing erasure codes

2014-11-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pyeclib Version : 0.9.10 Upstream Author : Kevin Greenan * URL : https://bitbucket.org/kmgreen2/pyeclib * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: C, Python Description

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
eb-systemd-helper in preinst? > > See > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=730604#74 > > Bastien By the way, this doesn't seem to support sysv-rc. I'm not trying to debate init systems, but it's important to support it, because of backports to Wheezy (I do us

Bug#769815: ITP: cobbler -- network boot, install and update server

2014-11-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: cobbler Version : 2.6.6+dfsg1 Upstream Author : Michael DeHaan * URL : http://www.cobblerd.org/ * License : GPL-2 Programming Lang: Python Description : network boot, install and

Re: Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
ions would > be harder than with sh/perl scripts like service/deb-systemd-*/*-rc.d) And there's that too, yes... Plus we'd have to make it upstreamed too. Thomas -- 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/546a2c14.6070...@debian.org

Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
t until last summer when I uploaded a patched version of bootlogd to Sid. To this date, sysv-rc can't log to multiple consoles, unless the release team agrees that I fix Wheezy (see the release.debian.org corresponding bug: #767202). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#769907: general: non-sysvinit init systems are made of fail

2014-11-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
u file bugs against both systemd and upstart then! (and *not* using the "general" pseudo-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: https://lists.debian.org/546a8a4e.8010...@debian.org

Bug#770101: ITP: ruby-cstruct -- simulation of the C language's struct

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: ruby-cstruct Version : 1.0.1 Upstream Author : skandhas * URL : https://github.com/skandhas/cstruct * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : simulation of the C

Bug#770106: ITP: ruby-rethtool -- partial wrapper around the SIOCETHTOOL ioctl

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: ruby-rethtool Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Matt Palmer * URL : http://theshed.hezmatt.org/rethtool * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : partial wrapper

Bug#770115: ITP: nailgun-agent -- collects a server’s hardware information and submits it

2014-11-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: nailgun-agent Version : 3.9.2 Upstream Author : Mirantis Inc. * URL : https://github.com/thomasgoirand/nailgun-agent * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Ruby Description

Bug#770209: ITP: nailgun-mcagents -- various mcollective agent pluggins

2014-11-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: nailgun-mcagents Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List * URL : https://github.com/thomasgoirand/nailgun-mcagents * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang

Bug#770288: ITP: python-tasklib -- Task Warrior database interaction

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-tasklib Version : 0.5.0 Upstream Author : Rob Golding * URL : https://github.com/robgolding63/tasklib * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Python Description : Task

Re: Cloudstack for Debian

2014-11-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
gt; establishing a cloudstack packaging group or do we push the effort into >> the java packaging group? > > Or do we use debian-cloud@lists.d.o for that? Please don't. This list is for general cloud stuff, like cloud-init, which are of interest for everyone. I don't want to r

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
you want to delete these antediluvian scripts that are still in your box? yes/no with yes as default). Thoughts? Am I doing too many assumptions here, and thinking too much that everyone is facing the same situation I did? Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-04-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
ther the init script can be deleted has a > satisfactory answer, but an answer of 'no' will presumably cause an issue for > dependency-based bootup. > If we move the *bad* scripts away in a specific folder, we have best of both worlds, IMO. Thoughts? Thomas -- To UNSUBS

Re: eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?

2012-04-14 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 14 avril 2012 20:37:14, Svante Signell a écrit : > On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 20:27 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Svante Signell (14/04/2012): > > > As the title says, are there plans to use eglibc 2.14 for wheezy?? > > > It has been out for some time now. > > > > Again, ask the maintain

Re: Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/15/2012 08:25 AM, Arno Töll wrote: > Thus, to summarize once again: I'd like to change the default directory > served by web servers from /var/www to /var/www/html along with > remaining web servers in Debian. > > Comments? > I support this. Thomas -- To UNSUB

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
idea because this might fill up space on the rootfs, while /var is traditionally (at least on servers) a separate partition. As you wrote above, the content inside /srv isn't specified, thus there could be collisions, while /var/www is already used in many distros for the web server. Th

Re: Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-15 Thread Thomas Goirand
like it doesn't make sense to put things in /usr/local 2/ If your proposal is to move things in /srv because anyway, it's going to be changed by the admin, then it's "silly" ... Cheers, Thomas -- 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/4f8ac2ed.9050...@debian.org

Re: lsb-base "Fancy output"; please test lsb-base/experimental (4.1+Debian0+fancy0)

2012-04-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
please* don't remove it, and send this to SID, even deactivated by default (a simple switch in a configuration file to have this would be cool anyway). Debian shouldn't be the only distro where things stay ugly... :) Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-d

Re: [pkg-lighttpd] Changing the default document root for HTTP server

2012-04-17 Thread Thomas Goirand
tter, and therefore suggested /var/www/html. But the actual > name does not matter, as long as it's a sub directory of the directory > for all vhosts. > As pointed earlier, /var/www/html has the advantage to exist in other distributions, so it's a good choice! Thomas -- To UNS

Re: what to do is maintainer is lacking? (was: wine-unstable in Debian)

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
k of time or his lack of skills/knowledge? My understanding is that in Debian, we are stuck, right? I believe that was the message of Chris: we don't really have procedures to take over a package, others than convincing the maintainer. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Shanghai BSP on the 29 and 30th of April at Peoople Squared

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Goirand
elp you to help (and maybe, other DDs will join). So if you don't have much experience about bug squashing, but want to help, you are warmly welcome as well. See you soon, hacking at the Shanghai BSP, Thomas Goirand (zigo) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 20, 2012

2012-04-20 Thread Thomas Goirand
great if someone took over its maintenance. I unfortunately have no time for it myself, but I certainly feel it would be a shame if it went unmaintained or be removed from Debian. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Bug#670065: ITP: pear-symfony-project-channel -- PEAR Symfony Project channel definition file

2012-04-22 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: pear-symfony-project-channel Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Thomas Goirand * URL : http://pear.symfony-project.com/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: XML Description : PEAR

Re: Shanghai BSP on the 29 and 30th of April at Peoople Squared

2012-04-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
The same announce, but in Chinese this time. Note that if you register yourself on the wiki, you will have free pizza at the event, thanks to "Pizza box" who is sponsoring the event. See you next Sunday, Thomas 各位朋友大家好: 如同我们于 DPN(Debian Project News from April 16th, 2012)上面 所宣佈的,我们将

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
t; Patric is in Shanghai, like me, I can work with him on that. I might see him tonight at the Shanghai LUG "hacking Thursday"! :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/26/2012 08:42 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > If anyone fancies > doing the packaging, I'll be happy to join in. I'll probably be able > to provide a better overview once I know a bit more. > > > Regards, > Roger > As I wrote already, Patrick lives in Shanghai just like me. What happened is tha

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
ld consider it > as > ready for a release. > Especially considering that we can fix stuff in Stable if the release team agrees... Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Bug#670603: ITP: php-mdb2 -- a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: php-mdb2 Version : 2.5.0b3 Upstream Author : Lukas Smith * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2 * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : a merge of the PEAR DB and

Bug#670604: ITP: php-mdb2-schema -- enables users to maintain RDBMS independant schema

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: php-mdb2-schema Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Lukas Smith * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/MDB2_Schema * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : enables users to

Bug#670611: ITP: php-xml-dtd -- parsing of DTD files and DTD validation of XML files

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: php-xml-dtd Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Tomas V.V.Cox , Igor Feghali * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/XML_DTD * License : BSD Programming Lang: PHP Description : parsing

Re: Bug#670603: ITP: php-mdb2 -- a merge of the PEAR DB and Metabase php database abstraction layers

2012-04-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/27/2012 06:52 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 04:44:24PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> * Package name: php-mdb2 >> Version : 2.5.0b3 > > php-mdb2 is already in Debian. I know. >> This is a request from people packaging "own

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
sn't have a working failure mode! No daemon should block the boot, even with our current system. If it does, please feel free to file a bug. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Bug#670876: ITP: php-sabredav -- SabreDAV allows you to easily add WebDAV support to a PHP application

2012-04-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Mueller * Package name: php-sabredav Version : 1.6.2 Upstream Author : Evert Pot * URL : http://www.http://sabredav.org/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: php Description : SabreDAV allows you to easily

Re: non-satisfyable Recommends: in main (was Re: Bug#661329: recommends doom-wad which is only provided by non-free doom-wad-shareware)

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
at doomsday still needs iwad files on top of the wad files for levels, sprites, and characters? In any case, if you still think that this was a mistake that I did, I am sorry for it, but if that's the case, it's easy to fix: - reopen #661329 - retitle it "doomsday should be in contri

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/30/2012 05:25 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > This has been happening more and more after SuSE has become irrelevant. > What (or what time) are you talking about? Has SuSE ever been relevant? :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-30 Thread Thomas Goirand
eable future. > Ah? Is this any different with other alternatives like upstart or systemd? Thomas -- 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/4f9ea852.5090...@debian.org

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/02/2012 06:00 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > and the binary isn't invoked directly by > users If the binary isn't invoked directly by the users, why do we have a problem? Why can't a patch be introduced so that the binary doesn't live in a user accessible path (eg:

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-06 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
a position to do so, and > > even if we did, the transition now would be many times more disruptive > > for users than if this had been dealt with in 2010. > > > > > If Debian is frozen tomorrow, then Nodejs will not be part of it, > > > for the very reason that I *did* respect Policy. > > > > It may not be part of the release, but it will still be a mess for > > everyone involved. > > Thanks to stpid actions by people not doing their homework, yes. > > > - Jonas Best regards, Thomas Preud'homme signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

free assimilation (git-svn migration) service offer

2012-05-06 Thread Thomas Koch
pen a bug on your package and assign it to me or just answer me. Make sure to sign the mail/bug so that I don't act without the consent of the maintainer. Even PHP switched to Git by now... :-) Regards, Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro signature.asc Description: This is a digitally sign

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
pstart or systemd, but then you wont be able to boot. So I wonder, what point you are trying to make? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/08/2012 02:35 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Thomas Goirand writes: > > >> On 05/08/2012 12:53 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >> >>> FWIW, Debian provides a couple of init systems already, and has been for >>> as long as I can remember.

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/08/2012 02:40 AM, Arto Jantunen wrote: > Sadly the point you are trying to make is painfully obvious Well, it is now obvious to me that my previous post has been taken as aggressive, which was really not intended. I really was asking for more of Gergely's view. Thomas -- To UNS

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le mardi 8 mai 2012 07:56:35, Peter Miller a écrit : > On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 20:23 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Conversely, debhelper contains actual, > > documented, and non-insane interfaces that could be used to do > > this properly. For some value of "properly" that the ftpmasters > > would prob

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable (was: switching from exim to postfix)

2012-05-09 Thread Thomas Goirand
he problem. The issue is that there's no outcome, and that it's demotivating. If I read others that what we want to work on isn't a good idea, I will simply not work on that, and external contributors will run away. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
any other package we have in the Debian archve. If systemd can't adapt to our ways to do things, with configuration files in /etc, then I'm betting that many will complain (IMO rightly) about policy violation. (just my 2 cents, as I still have on my todo to try systemd...) Cheers, Th

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
n I see it. Otherwise, you are silently changing the default, and potentially, I will miss the new options. Besides this, configuration files in /etc is written in the stones of our bible^Wpolicy-manual. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
:) RH's policy is that you should never prompt the user for something when installing a package. We have debconf, ucf, etc. because we want the user to be prompted *if* he wants to (and I personally do want to, so I don't run in non-interactive mode). Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
7;s how discussions are going the wrong way. Probably, Steve assumed that you understood the reasons why he liked the *Debian* way, without much need to explain what's written in the stones of our policy-manual... Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
d Debian policy, well written in the debian policy manual. Please stop. It's going nowhere. Thomas -- 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/4faccc7d.3010...@debian.org

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/11/2012 04:04 AM, David Weinehall wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 02:44:45AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> On 05/10/2012 04:52 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >>> No, really - please *do* do this. The fact that a lot of the software >>> coming o

Re: etc-overrides-non-etc configuration file model [Re: RFC: OpenRC asInit System for Debian]

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
/apache/apache2/php.ini). I'm ok with discussing things, but you are repeating yourself, and forcing others to do the same. That's annoying and not moving to the right direction. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
files created or used by your package must reside in |/etc|." The policy never talks about etc-overrides-lib configuration files, it only tells that all configuration files should go in /etc, and there's no exception, and it is also a "must". Thomas -- To UN

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/11/2012 05:25 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > And in etc-overrides-lib, config files still remain in /etc. No. -- 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/4facf398

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/11/2012 06:39 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: >In other words, it does *exactly* the same thing systemd is >criticised for. > Which doesn't mean that it's a good practice. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
rrible to manage upgrades in a decent way without knowing the corner cases. On top of that, we're being told that this is the reason why we should use this system, which is totally the inverse of what we've been doing in Debian for years. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/11/2012 08:30 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 11, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >>> Long story short, I still don't see what the fuss is about. >>> >> The fuss is about we're being told that there will be silent >> overwriti

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
u can chose which one you > want/need. > > Michael > But upon upgrades, it's still a silent thing. The configuration file in /lib is overwritten and users wont know about the changes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
other replies, I thought there was only yourself and Uoti. Now I can see that Gergely is also on your side, and then I don't think there's a large consensus anymore. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
understand, and aren't smart enough to restore. I can't believe that newbies favorite game would be changing randomly the content of /etc/init. And at the same time, I can't believe that experts tweaking upstart jobs wouldn't know how to restore them. Thomas -- 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/4fad144c.1050...@debian.org

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
ch much more acceptable to me. I wouldn't see any problem with it. I just don't want that new configuration values to be silently ignored upon upgrades, that's all I'm saying. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-11 Thread Thomas Goirand
27;s worth investing any human time on this. Thomas -- 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/4fad4670.5030...@debian.org

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
ed about the differences, even if they are trivial to merge. > Yes, I truly agree with the above. We need something to handle changes better than what we have currently. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
erges. Only in complicated merge conflicts, we'd have to manually solve the issue. For such merge problems, it'd be great to simply pop a text editor so the user can decide how to solve the merge conflict. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/12/2012 03:19 AM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > It's perfectly able to notice changes > in /lib/systemd too, or pretty much anywhere else. > I thought these were only default which we shouldn't have to care about?!? :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ.

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
ry systemd, and I was shocked to see how fast it booted! :) The only thing is that I had no clue what started: nothing were prompted on my screen. Is there a way to have it more verbose? Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
se you expect these to change, at least more often than things that are compiled-in. Otherwise, what's the point in having stuff stored in a file that can be edited? Why not just do a .h with the values you need? Thomas P.S: I'm continuing to ask, even though you guys are slowly succe

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 12 mai 2012 04:25:08, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Michael Gilbert writes: > > So, I think [0] is the most astute message in that thread. > > > > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2000/11/msg00251.html > > I thought that too when I first read it, but later in the thread are very >

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
e. The nice thing about storing the default values in the same > format used by the configuration file is that if you find a default that > you'd like to change, you immediately know what to put in the > configuration file in order to change it. > Then why not simply write this in

Re: Bug#672695: wordpress: no sane way for security updates in stable releases

2012-05-13 Thread Thomas Goirand
ng it on top of > Apache + mod_php seems to be one of the least desirable options. > Also, I tried to have it to run in a chroot, using a cgi wrapper, and quickly given-up. The current Debian package is just not designed to do this. In fact, quite the opposite way, it's designed to run th

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