Re: System libraries and the GPLv2

2017-03-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 mars 2017 10:46 +0300, Lars Wirzenius  : >> As Carlos, it's hard for me to believe anyone will object to OpenSSL >> linking, all the more when they implemented the support for it. > > A compication in this is that even though the developers of a program > would be happy with linking to OpenS

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 3 avril 2017 10:10 +1000, Russell Stuart  : > The first is better HDPI handling. This will require Wayland as X11 > simply can't handle connecting to monitors with wildly different DPI > settings. The current limitation is in the toolkits. X11 is quite able to advertise different DPI per out

Re: Fwd: can anyone review diaspora-installer?

2017-04-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 avril 2017 18:20 +1000, Brian May  : >> Sharing with wider debian community, hoping to get some support. >> >> Current version in unstable does not have any RC bugs, but recent >> changes in the package made release managers not happy with the quality >> of the package and it was removed fr

Re: "Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?"

2017-04-07 Thread Vincent Danjean
days ago, with the previous versions, the 4.9 and 4.10 were freezing at nearly each resume. Two days ago, I ran the Ubuntu firmware tests on this laptop: Test |Pass |Fail |Abort|Warn |Skip |Info | ---+-+-+-+-+-+-+ [...] Total: | 981| 1

Re: init system agnosticism [WAS: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system]

2017-04-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
not sure if his proposal is good and doable (ie with enough support from various parties and manpower). I'm not pleased at all with arguments to stop this discussion nor with arguments that try to deny the issue. I do not know what can really be done to solve the issue. Regards, Vincent

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

2017-04-23 Thread Vincent Danjean
ograms (such as etckeeper) that will track this (these) directory(ies) and dpkg/apt hooks that can tell the admin that a default config file has been modified when a override file as been installed in /etc. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.o

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-05-31 Thread Vincent Danjean
ny false positives for logcheck). mails from mdadm are really an very important feature for me. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D178 97FA Unofficial pkg

Re: /root directory

2017-06-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 juin 2017 13:10 +0800, Paul Wise  : >> I’m not an IT educated person, so I recognize that I may be suggesting a >> nonsense. However, as a fairly recent user of a Debian based distro, I got >> quite confused and somehow frustrated for not properly understanding what >> the guidelines were te

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 juin 2017 15:55 +0200, Adam Borowski  : > pulseaudio: xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin > * BAD: I want working sound, duh. From now on, you may be more likely to get sound with pulseaudio than without due to upstreams dropping support for Alsa. See for example Firefox. And the trend will continue si

Re: New network interface naming scheme [was Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system]

2017-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 juillet 2017 09:38 -0400, Marvin Renich  : > The cost of a state file (/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules) is > extremely small, even in the very worst case where a user continually > plugs in many, many different usb network dongles, which is a very > unrealistic case to begin with.

Re: New network interface naming scheme [was Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system]

2017-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 juillet 2017 18:37 +0200, Adam Borowski  : >> > The cost of a state file (/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules) is >> > extremely small, even in the very worst case where a user continually >> > plugs in many, many different usb network dongles, which is a very >> > unrealistic case to

Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 juillet 2017 14:36 -0400, Marvin Renich  : > The only benefit I have seen between the new scheme and the previous > one is that there is no state file. While getting rid of the state > file is a nice goal, it is extremely minor compared to having short, > simple names in common use cases li

Re: Naming of network devices

2017-07-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 10 juillet 2017 15:53 -0400, Marvin Renich  : >> > With the new scheme, if I want to rename the interface to something more >> > meaningful, I have to go find an older machine that already has a >> > persistent-net.rules file or read through a lot of documentation to >> > figure out the correct

Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system

2017-07-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 juillet 2017 17:35 +0200, Marc Haber  : >>> sudo ip link; sudo ip addr; >> >>no need for sudo, this is enough: >> >>ip link ; ip addr >> >>or even shorter: >> >>ip l ; ip a > > Still, an elderly family member reading this out to you on the phone > is very very energy-draining. Right click

Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster

2017-07-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2017 13:55 -0700, Russ Allbery  : >>> The workaround was a bunch of bullshit in our install process to try to >>> figure out which NIC got the DHCP response and then pin that one to >>> eth0 for subsequent boots. (Which is basically what udev persistent >>> naming did.) > >> At leas

Bug in https://release.debian.org/transitions/ page?

2017-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
, 2 packages in "partial", and 60 packages in "bad"! -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: DocBook 5 for Debian

2017-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
k*-xml packages. So, I wonder whether there should be some form of catalog system for the schemas (/etc/xml/catalog is for the DTD's only). Now that DocBook 5 has its own namespace, this should be more reliable than before. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% acces

Re: Bug in https://release.debian.org/transitions/ page?

2017-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-08-08 14:13:31 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > Trying to guess what your actual question is... > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:05:03PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The https://release.debian.org/transitions/ lists in > > "Ongoing transitions": > >

Re: OpenSSL disables TLS 1.0 and 1.1

2017-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
t’s I like to know as well. BTW, IMHO, as it can break things, this change should be announced in NEWS.Debian, together with known problems with other Debian software, and so on. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://w

Re: Automatic way to install dbgsym packages for a process?

2017-08-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
g > like that? The one-line description of devscripts is: scripts to make the life of a Debian Package maintainer easier So it's mainly targeted at Debian Package maintainers, while such a script would be useful to end users. Perhaps debian-goodies? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <htt

Re: Bug#833585: lintian: Check presence of upstream signature if signing key available

2017-08-21 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 15 juillet 2017 23:06 +0100, Chris Lamb  : > Dear Niels, > >> You need the $group parameter (the 5th parameter to the run sub). > > > > Bingo, that works. Will tidy a bunch of things up and push it tomorrow. > Thanks again! So, this adds a new Lintian "error". I am using gbp and I have no clu

Re: Alioth: the future of mailing lists

2017-09-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 septembre 2017 14:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog  : > Hum, that documentation is a bit outdated. What you have to use is > actually dispatch+@tracker.debian.org. But I would not want > people to use this email address in Maintainer fields. > > Instead we should use @packages.debian.org. But for t

Bug#877438: ITP: libset-intervaltree-perl -- Perform range-based lookups on sets of ranges

2017-10-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean * Package name: libset-intervaltree-perl Version : 0.11 Upstream Author : Ben Booth * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Set-IntervalTree * License : Perl (Artistic + GPL-1+) Programming Lang: Perl

Bug#883607: ITP: golang-github-dgryski-go-farm -- go-farm: a pure-Go farmhash implementation

2017-12-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat * Package name: golang-github-dgryski-go-farm Version : 0.0~git20171119.ac7624ea8da3-1 Upstream Author : Damian Gryski * URL : https://github.com/dgryski/go-farm * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go

Bug#883771: ITP: openbmp -- BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) collector

2017-12-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: openbmp Version : 0.13.0 Upstream Author : Cisco Systems, Inc. and others * URL : https://github.com/OpenBMP/openbmp * License : Eclipse

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-23 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 22 décembre 2017 19:58 -0800, Russ Allbery  : >> IANAL, but it seems pretty clear to me that this is not the case, at >> least for source packages (see 4.c), for binary packages we also have to >> distribute any associated NOTICE files (see 4.d, but I guess we violate >> this rule quite a lot),

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 24 décembre 2017 13:24 GMT, Chris Lamb  : >> Unrelated, but I am developing some kind of "lintian fatigue". […] >> Sometimes Lintian is right, sometimes it's not. > > As you imply, static analysis tools need to maintain a healthy signal- > to-noise ratio for them to remain relevant and useful.

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-26 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 décembre 2017 10:03 -0800, Russ Allbery  : >> As an example, the spelling errors are useful for debian/ directory (as >> informational), but totally useless for upstream stuff. For me, they are >> not worth telling upstream, they are not worth adding to an override >> (which could become out

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2017-12-31 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 décembre 2017 17:27 +0800, Paul Wise  : >> I already often open or reply to bugs in lintian (including when I think >> severity is wrong). The main problem is not when lintian is wrong, the >> main problem if when lintian is right but is nit-picking. While I >> understand some of us would li

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 janvier 2018 14:28 GMT, Chris Lamb  : > > W: python3-pysnmp4: > > python-package-depends-on-package-from-other-python-variant (Suggests: > > python-pysnmp4-doc) > > > > My solution? Removing the Sugggests and pray someone doesn't open a bug > > to request suggesting the documentation. > >

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 janvier 2018 17:47 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard  : >> I have very little time for Debian. Each time I update a package, I have >> to bump Standards-Version and fix new Lintian warnings. I would >> appreciate if we would assess the time developers will take to update >> packages because of a chang

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 janvier 2018 19:45 GMT, "Dr. Bas Wijnen"  : >> If we don't comply with the latest policy, this is considered a serious bug. > > Yes. But a package complying with the previous policy, but not the current > one > is unlikely, because policy changes are normally written down once most > packa

Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

2018-01-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 janvier 2018 11:31 -0800, Russ Allbery  : >>> Purpose of the Standards-Version field is *not* to keep you busy >>> silencing corresponding lintian warning, but to state which version of >>> Debian Policy the package is verified to comply with. > >> And why is it useful to know something li

Re: is the whole unstable still broken by gcc-5?

2015-09-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 septembre 2015 21:55 +0300, Виталий Филиппов  : > Can you please tell when everything will be fixed i.e. when all packages > will be rebuilt with newer gcc? And can you please NOT upload such > "breaking updates" in the future before testing everything that's broken > in experimental?.. Beca

Bug#799044: ITP: python-hypothesis -- advanced Quickcheck style testing library for Python

2015-09-15 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-hypothesis Version : 1.11.0 Upstream Author : David R. MacIver * URL : https://github.com/DRMacIver/hypothesis * License : MPL 2.0

Re: is the whole unstable still broken by gcc-5?

2015-09-15 Thread Vincent Danjean
maintainer find some free time (the fixes seem easy). With these two rebuilds, I succeeded in the gcc5 transition, keeping all software I really want to keep (I recall that there have been other removed packages but I did not really use them so I accepted their removal). Regards, Vi

Re: pro-active removals

2015-09-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 17 septembre 2015 10:55 +0200, Andreas Henriksson  : >> Why? The vlan package is not needed since at least Wheezy to configure >> VLANs on devices since the program "ip" can do everything the same or >> even better. >> >> Also ifupdown was changed to be able to configure VLANs using "ip" >> d

Re: is the whole unstable still broken by gcc-5?

2015-10-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ude sometimes wants to downgrade packages (more or less silently), which is not supported by Debian, thus with the risk to break the whole system. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762932 -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - B

Re: Bug#800769: pbuilder: conffiles not removed

2015-10-12 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 12 octobre 2015 17:45 +0200, Jakub Wilk  : > I'd suggest to do something very simple instead: > In pbuilder's postinst, if pbuilder-uml status is not-installed, > simply rm -f /etc/pbuilder/pbuilder-uml.conf. If for some reason, a user has put a file with this exact same name here, it would be

Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-10 Thread Vincent Danjean
ile before installing it (ie the file in /usr/share can be a template that will be adapted to targeted system). Regards, Vincent PS: about systemd, on my system, I've moved the default config files into /etc so that etckeeper tracks it: $ ls -l /lib/systemd/system lrwxrwxrwx 1 root r

Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.

2015-11-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
how to move from a dpkg conffile to a configuration file managed by ucf. You will get for free all the mechanisms required to prompt the user on upgrade if required. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654

Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks [was: Putting default config files in /usr]

2015-11-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
verwritten unit in /usr is modified by the package) I'm under the impression that such developments have more chance to succeed that modifying the way systemd handle its configuration. Regards Vincent > Greetings > Marc > -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA

Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.

2015-11-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 11/11/2015 15:31, Alec Leamas a écrit : > On 11/11/15 15:17, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> Le 11/11/2015 10:37, Alec Leamas a écrit : >>> However, it touches one possible route: to store the original vendor >>> files separately and create the actually used config files i

Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.

2015-11-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
e prompted only when he has done new changes since the last package upgrade (and the "install maintainer version" prompt would then install the cme built config file) Regards, Vincent > [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conff

Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]

2015-11-12 Thread Vincent Danjean
king at the cn=config slapd database here). Regards, Vincent

Re: Config upgrade with cme (was Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.)

2015-11-12 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 12/11/2015 18:36, Dominique Dumont a écrit : > Hello Vincent > > On Wednesday 11 November 2015 17:11:13 Vincent Danjean wrote: >> I looked at [2] (cme seems really powerfull to offer automatic >> upgrade/merge of config files). I've two questions after reading th

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks [was: Putting default config files in /usr]

2015-11-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
riends the Debian way if the Debian packaging > team would be willing to. Because I cannot see a way (but diverting ucf itself) to interface it with etckeeper so that original maintainer files will be kept in a different git branch with merges in the master branch to keep the modified config.

Re: Ideas to improve dpkg/ucf with hooks [was: Putting default config files in /usr]

2015-11-14 Thread Vincent Danjean
be a bit more difficult to integrate if we want to be able to do a kind of 'git diff official..master' to get only local config modification. And if we want to support partial override (such as services.d systemd directories) Regards Vincent > Manoj > >

Re: Accepting cloud enablement package updates into Stable

2015-11-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 novembre 2015 14:33 +0100, Thomas Goirand  : >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784083#40 >> >> So I don't really get your complaint. > > Oh, thanks for pointing this out. > > So if I understand correctly, just adding $network to the line: > > # Required-Start:$local_

Re: Accepting cloud enablement package updates into Stable

2015-11-28 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 28 novembre 2015 21:26 +0100, Thomas Goirand  : > After this discussion, I'm still not sure what needs to be done in the > init script. Should we do: > > -# Required-Start:$local_fs $remote_fs > +# Required-Start: > # Required-Stop: > +# X-Start-Before:networking > -# Default-Start:

Re: vim plugin dependency and libruby

2015-12-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
Not that the situation can be more tricky here as there exists several vim packages (ie I did not know if depending on a particular vim version will ensure that the package containing the binary linked to libruby2.X (ie vim-gnome, ...) will be at the same version) Regards, Vincent > Cheers,

Re: sid on openvz

2015-12-04 Thread Vincent Danjean
n an old linux OpenVZ: $ uname -r 2.6.32-042stab111.12 I'm not sure when/if this offer will be upgraded. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D178 97FA Unofficial

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-05 Thread Vincent Danjean
ple. I just installed apt-file from experimental: $ sudo apt-file update [...] 582 Mo réceptionnés en 11min 12s (866 ko/s) [...] $ Regards, Vincent - -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D178 97FA Uno

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2015-12-06 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 décembre 2015 14:23 +0100, Paul Gevers  : > TL;DR;2 should the new dbconfig- packages recommend or suggest > the database server packages? Suggest. Otherwise, your plan looks just fine. -- All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain signature.asc Des

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2015-12-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
download Contents-Files, perhaps trying here to restrain the architectures and/or the suite (can be a bit more tricky but probably only a matter of passing -o options to apt-get update) The current default setup is a no-go for me. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD1

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2015-12-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
at the user can configure a remote database without failing the current installation. I know I already talked about that. I do not remember if this is already implemented or not. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2015-12-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
y due to other packages). Dependency alternatives are rarely a good hint for preference, but if the system is installing for the first time (as in autobuilder) Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 4

Re: dbconfig-common: near future change in dependency stack

2015-12-08 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 08/12/2015 20:14, Paul Gevers a écrit : > Hi Vincent, > > On 08-12-15 09:49, Vincent Danjean wrote: >> When local configuration does not work or when local databases cannot >> be reached or when local database server packages are not installed >> the priority of dbc

Re: Automatic dbgsym packages built by default as of today!

2015-12-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 décembre 2015 23:26 GMT, Niels Thykier  : > As of today, dak supports the dbgsym packages built by debhelper and > with debhelper/9.20151219 they are now built by default! With this, a > decade old idea is now implemented and available for general > consumption[1]. :) That's great! Many th

Re: Automatic dbgsym packages built by default as of today!

2015-12-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 décembre 2015 23:26 GMT, Niels Thykier  : > * Currently only experimental and unstable will have dbgsym packages. >- We need changes to Britney to add them to testing. For experimental, would it be possible to set "Not-Automatic: yes", so that debug packages work in the same way than r

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-01 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 1 janvier 2016 13:29 +0100, Simon Richter  : >> Is there any use case that requires supporting unmerged systems? > > Booting without an initrd, which is important for resource-constrained > embedded systems. Do you also require a separate /usr for those systems? -- The human race has one rea

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 4 janvier 2016 00:03 +1300, Daniel Reurich  : >>> Then why is it that since the introduction of systemd is having /usr on >>> a separate partition suddenly considered evil and systemd complains >>> loudly about it. It always has worked and does work fine for me with >>> sysvinit >> >> system

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-03 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 3 janvier 2016 22:30 +0100, Eric Valette  : >> The problem of getting /usr mounted before things start using it is mostly >> separate from the question of whether we want to merge it with /bin and >> /lib. This thread is more about the latter than the former. (Obviously, >> mounting /usr ear

Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload

2016-01-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
the broken unison2.40.102 is still in testing/unstable, I had to downgrade then mark it as frozen in aptitude, so that the stable version is not replaced by the testing/unstable version. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https:

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
ure the reason why a package is in > non-free. At least two hierarchies come to mind: 1) which point of DFSG > is not respected, and 2) which one of the 4 freedoms are not granted. And could something similar be done for free packages that can download non-free stuff? -- Vincent Lefèvre -

Re: APT 1.2 preview uploaded to experimental -- please test

2016-01-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
found one (regression). Before "apt-get update" takes about 20s on my system After "apt-get update" takes more than 5 min on my system... Details in the bug I just filled (#810898). It is linked to the use of compressed indices advertized with this release. That said, thank

Re: Upcoming version of apt-file - using apt-acquire and incompatibilities

2016-01-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
dded one more: #clear APT::Update::Post-Invoke; It avoids debtags to be run for more than 5 min... (see #810898) Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D178 97FA Unofficial p

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 16 janvier 2016 16:38 +0100, Marc Haber  : > It's simply unproductive to first having to argue with upstream if one > needs one certain IPv6 /proc/sys/net option in systemd-networkd _and_ > to wait for the next Debian stable release for this possibility to > become available, if I need to set t

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-16 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 16 janvier 2016 17:37 +0100, Marc Haber  : >>You seem to always take vague examples to avoid being contradicted. You >>can execute any unit before and after network is setup through the >>dependency system. > > Show me how to set a certain option to a VLAN interface that is > created by /etc/sy

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 17 janvier 2016 11:25 +0100, Marc Haber  : >>Of course, vlan1 is up because with networkd, configuring the "netdev" makes >>it up while in Debian, setting the IP makes it up. However, I don't see >>you whining about the lack of flexibility in Debian where you cannot >>execute a command when the

Re: mkdocs locale error building djangorestframework

2016-01-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 26 janvier 2016 11:57 +1100, Brian May  : > I probably should change the line from: > > LANG=C.UTF-8 mkdocs build && mv site docs.debian/html > > To something like: > > LANG=C.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE= LC_ALL= mkdocs build && mv site docs.debian/html This may not apply to your case, but there is a loca

Bug#813374: general: Menus and window popup does not work after recent upgrade

2016-02-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
the primary external monitor, the problematic behavior occurs again. So, if someone have an idea of what happens, of where (in which softare) is the bug, or just want additionnal inputs, just say so. For now, this is really annoying. Regards, Vincent In attachement, the result of $ cat /var/l

Bug#813374: general: Menus and window popup does not work after recent upgrade

2016-02-03 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 03/02/2016 12:31, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > Vincent, > > This sounds like issues with your window manager, since you mostly > complain about issues with window placements and dispositions. Just to > be sure, you're using XFCE, right? Yes. But is the WM involved

Re: How to change config script for multiarch?

2016-02-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
, a convertion to pkg-config style is probably the easiest/rightest (but it is better to do it with upstream). In this case, the chasen-config might be rewritten with internal calls to pkg-config to avoid to duplicate the information and still keeping the old interface. Regards, Vincen

Re: Adding SONAME to a shared object in KLEE

2016-02-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
m build system want to *run* this library (for example as part of a test suite), it will need to create the other link (the libNAME.so.SOVERSION link) and to play with LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or use LD_PRELOAD) It is were build frameworks such as autotools/libtools helps the developer... Regards,

Bug#815424: ITP: libdata-table-perl -- manipulate data tables in perl (as in R)

2016-02-21 Thread Vincent Danjean
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Danjean * Package name: libdata-table-perl Version : 1.72 Upstream Author : Yingyao Zhou & Guangzhou Zou * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Table * License : Perl (Artistic or GPL-1+) Programming

Re: Adding SONAME to a shared object in KLEE

2016-02-25 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 24/02/2016 08:30, Marko Dimjašević a écrit : > Which brings us back to the original question - how to add the SONAME > attribute to the library? Did you try what have been said in this thread? If yes, what did you do *exactly*? Else, why not? Regards, Vincent

Bug#815980: tracker.debian.org: All packages have uscan issues

2016-02-26 Thread Vincent Danjean
ne will be able to find the root issue and reassing this bug accordingly. Regards, Vincent -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'squeeze-lts'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Let's try to package mailman3 in Debian!

2016-03-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 mars 2016 04:22 +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue  : >> > Mmh, take a look at other debian packages. It is quiet common that python >> > packages uses sphinx as documentation framework. So it should be a already >> > solved issue - maybe ask python-debian. >> >> The easiest solution is to add '

Bug#817048: ITP: jo -- command-line processor to output JSON from a shell

2016-03-07 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: jo Version : git snapshot Upstream Author : Jan-Piet Mens * URL : https://github.com/jpmens/jo * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C

Re: Upgrading xrdp

2016-03-08 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 8 mars 2016 15:03 +0100, Andreas Tille  : > since I need an up to date xrdp at work I upgraded the packaging in > collab-maint to the latest upstream version. Considering the package is > in collab-maint I guess it is OK for you that I added myself to > Uploaders. It would be nice if you cou

Re: golang naming scheme

2016-03-31 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 31 mars 2016 15:22 -0400, Holger Levsen  : >> That's one of the reasons why so many people use github, since that URL is >> less likely to change. > > less likely, but imagine 3000 golang packages in the archive in 5 years and > then github is bought by google and renamed to goolab. or whatever

Re: gitlab package (was Re: Opt out style recommends)

2016-04-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 avril 2016 15:18 +0530, Pirate Praveen  : > 2.automating ssl was not possible before letsencrypt. Now you just > need to click/press yes button to get an encrypted service running. > > And for those who do not want it, the default is 'no' for both ssl and > letsencrypt. > > It would be a

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
thing to do is to recompile everything for the target processor (instead of generic x86_64, for instance), with LTO. For GMP+MPFR, I noticed a gain of up to 37% a few years ago. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
nitizer, as I could not see time differences, even on slow operations. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-04-13 12:40:39 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes ("Re: Packaging of static libraries"): > > Note that by default, shared libraries would still be used, so that > > this would affect only users with specific applications, who would > > want

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-14 Thread Vincent Danjean
ebian project seems to agree that this is a good tradeoff between optimization and "code correction". Regards, Vincent > Thanks, > Bas > -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: 621E 3509 654D D77C 43F5 CA4A F6AE F2AF D1

Bug#821035: ITP: luksipc -- LUKS in-place conversion tool

2016-04-14 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: luksipc Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Johannes Bauer * URL : http://johannes-bauer.com/linux/luksipc/ * License : GPL-3 Programming

Re: Bug#821035: ITP: luksipc -- LUKS in-place conversion tool

2016-04-17 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 17 avril 2016 18:07 +0200, Philipp Kern  : >> I intend to also provide an initramfs hook to make the conversion of a >> root filesystem for simple cases only (notably cloud payload). > > I am still a little bit scared by this tool. If it would optionally > persist the block it is currently rewr

Re: Packaging of static libraries

2016-04-19 Thread Vincent Danjean
trong argument. I just say that other aspects must *also* be evaluated and balanced. And an small increase in safety is not always the best thing for the Debian project if it leads to severe performance/usability/... issues. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0xD17897FA

Bug#823200: ITP: python-poyo -- lightweight (subset of) YAML parser for Python

2016-05-02 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-poyo Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Raphael Pierzina * URL : https://github.com/hackebrot/poyo/ * License : Expat Programming

Re: trying to use wireless not from gnome... what's the incantation?

2016-05-23 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 23 mai 2016 12:10 +0200, Adam Borowski  : >> > NM is closely tied to Gnome so regressions in non-Gnome use aren't >> > surprising. >> Login in Gnome once, activate wifi and ask that the connection should be >> used by >> all users. >> Then NM will save the password some were so that it connect

Bug#825164: ITP: golang-github-eapache-channels -- Golang channel helpers and special types

2016-05-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat * Package name: golang-github-eapache-channels Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Evan Huus * URL : https://github.com/eapache/channels * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Golang

Bug#825183: ITP: gobgp -- BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language

2016-05-24 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat * Package name: gobgp Version : 1.7-1 * URL : https://github.com/osrg/gobgp * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Go Description : BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language GoBGP is an open

Bug#825503: ITP: golang-github-socketplane-libovsdb -- An OVSDB Client Library written in Golang

2016-05-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat * Package name: golang-github-socketplane-libovsdb Version : 0.1+git20160503.9.d4b9e7a53548-1 Upstream Author : SocketPlane * URL : https://github.com/socketplane/libovsdb * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#825505: ITP: golang-github-cenk-rpc2 -- Bi-directional RPC in Go (Golang)

2016-05-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Vincent Bernat * Package name: golang-github-cenk-rpc2 Version : 0.0~git20160427.0.7ab76d2e88c7-1 Upstream Author : Cenk Altı * URL : https://github.com/cenk/rpc2 * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description

Re: many tiny tiny node.js packages

2016-06-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 5 juin 2016 10:13 CEST, Holger Levsen  : > this is not about these two specific packages, I'm rather wondering > how to deal with an ecosystem where it seems to be normal to release > tiny tiny packages… (*) > > On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 03:25:48AM +0200, Jonathan Ulrich Horn wrote > "Bug#82637

Re: Next steps for gitlab.debian (Re: GitLab B.V. to host free-software GitLab for Debian project)

2016-06-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 juin 2016 10:46 CEST, Holger Levsen  : >> We do patching as part of our daily packaging already: to replace (or >> circumvent) non-dfsg functionality, to integrate into our environment, >> and everything else that upstream is not willing or able to apply >> himself but is good in our opinion

Re: opinions of snappy packages

2016-06-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 19 juin 2016 20:11 CEST, Josh Triplett  : > While you could definitely make technical comparisons between the .deb > format and the snappy format, a distribution like Debian provides a lot > more than a packaging format. The .deb format in isolation just > represents an archive of files; what

Re: Bad news to CUDA applications (was: Re: GCC 6 & binutils for the Debian stretch release)

2016-07-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
ssful), I would create a wrapper around nvcc that force to call a gcc-wrapper (perhaps just redefining PATH would be enough) that would add fix-flags to a real gcc call. Regards, Vincent > On Fri, 2016-07-01 at 06:07 +, lumin wrote: >> Hi all, >> (please keep me in CC list)

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