Re: [RFC] Go (golang) packaging

2013-01-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 09:41:15AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 01:05:46PM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > >> - Private dependencies, as they leak to rdeps. When a library uses > >

Re: Updates in the very-old-stable

2013-01-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 09:48:20PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 01/06/2013 09:08 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Ie, anything that is likely to be vulnerable remotely. > > And also, anything that is likely to be a critical piece of software. > Like, for example I wouldn't really care about game

Re: Packages with incomplete .md5sum files

2013-01-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:13:46PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 3:21 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Excluding shipped files from .md5sums looks seriously wrong for files > > in /usr and at least questionable in /var/lib. > > What is so "serious" about that? In itself i

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Johannes, On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 07:18:40PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: [...] > 2. Build-Profiles (extension 1) > === > > When a source package is built with fewer build dependencies (cross, > embedded, stage1, nodocs...), then it often happens that it does not

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 08:33:57AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > If wanna-build is updated to support these two fields, then I imagine > > it can run the bootstrapping dependency algorithm. While

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:34:55PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:51:32PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > I'm not sure if wanna-build is the right tool to do this > > > > Why not? > > > > It already needs to

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - proposal of needed changes

2013-01-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:17:07PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:51:32 +0100 > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:34:16AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 08:33:57A

Re: Candidates for removal from testing (2013-01-24)

2013-01-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 03:47:08PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > We are considering removing the following packages from testing as > they have unfixed RC bugs filed against them. [...] > Wouter Verhelst >pmw I had overlooked the fact that "serious" means "relea

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:16:44PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote on his blog[0]: > > >Generally if software is useful in Debian Project it can be useful > >for other debian-like and unlike projects. In particular native > >packages do not offer the same patching flexibility as

Re: No native packages?

2013-01-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 09:44:18AM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 07:16:44PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote on his blog[0]: > >> > >> >Generally if software is useful in Debia

Re: Go (golang) packaging, part 2

2013-01-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:25:38AM +0100, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi Hilko, > > Hilko Bengen writes: > > This is a pity for those of us who don't really subscribe to "get > > everything from github as needed" model of distributing software. > Yes, but at the same time, it makes Go much more c

Re: RFC declarative built-using field generation

2013-02-12 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 03:42:38AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Can't we just annotate the foo-source binary package in some way - it > should be pretty clear to the maintainer that he produces such a > "special" package. Then for building other packages B-D-ing on the > "special" package we co

Bug#701585: marked as done (general: Can't select other languages)

2013-02-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
reopen 701585 reassign 701585 gnome-settings-daemon severity 701585 normal thanks On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 09:30:03PM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Hello Carlos, > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > Debian-Devel is no user s

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:39:26AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > > There was recently some discussion in pkg-javascript about how to give > more people access to the VCS (e.g. keeping the git repositories > logically organised under the pkg-javascript tree, but making write > access available t

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-02 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:07:22AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:39:26AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > > Has anybody had experience controlling access to git repositories, for > > example, to give users access but prevent some of the following > > dangerous operation

Re: Bootstrapping: list of 81 self-cycles in Debian Sid

2013-03-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:41:51PM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Samuel Thibault (2013-03-05 13:41:12) > > Maybe arch:all-only source packages should be shown in a different color: > > AIUI these do not pose a problem for bootstrapping a new Debian port, since > > one does not n

Re: bugs.debian.org: something's wrong...

2013-03-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 18-03-13 10:06, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Paul Gevers wrote... > >> Is it just me or am I the only one getting bug reports from bugs that >> don't seem to exist on bugs.debian.org. > > Now it's appearently back online, but a web tracking has been > added, as seen in #703298. That's disgusting

Re: Bug#703946: general: OS freezes, but mouse and ping keeps working

2013-03-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 26-03-13 09:03, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 05:18:25AM +0100, Martin Eberhard Schauer wrote: >> as far as I googled, Chrome is not packaged by Debian, but Chromium is. >> So better complain at Google. > > If userspace is able to freeze your desktop, that's likely "our" fault.

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 28-03-13 11:47, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote: >> Control: severity -1 important >> >> I am raising this bug to critical, as it meets the definition "makes >> unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break" >> No, it does not. hw will shut itself o

Re: Bug#455769: same problem on wheezy + Thinkpad X220T

2013-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 28-03-13 14:04, Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 28/03/13 12:32, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On 28-03-13 11:47, Daniel Pocock wrote: >>> On 28/03/13 11:06, Julien Cristau wrote: >>>> Control: severity -1 important >>>> >>>> I am raising t

Re: Bug#703762: ITP: jdownloader -- download manager for one-click hosting sites

2013-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 28-03-13 17:25, Benjamin Drung wrote: > JDownloader comes with an updater that will update itself. Debian has an updater that will update *the whole system*. It's called "dpkg". Please don't use that as an argument in favour of providing a downloader. I agree with what's been said before: we s

Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R

2013-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 01-04-13 13:38, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Samuel Thibault wrote: >> Uoti Urpala, le Mon 01 Apr 2013 05:12:46 +0300, a écrit : >>> Distributions that make latest >>> software available are necessary for free software development. >> >> Again, that's one of the things experimental is for. > > It is no

Re: upgraded systems won't boot from UUID volumes

2013-04-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 08-04-13 08:53, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I'm not suggesting that squeeze systems were installed that way by > default, although people who have migrated an FS from a raw partition > to an LV may have this in fstab. And that fact alone makes it a non-RC bug -- if it's even a bug at all. Changing

Re: Legal possibility of more open package reviews.

2013-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Charles, On 10-04-13 00:56, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:54:14PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz a écrit : >> >>> Suggestion #3: have a system where any other DD can review >>> a package in the NEW queue, not only the FTP masters or the >>> FTP assistants. >> >> That would include pu

Re: bits from the DPL: March-April 2013

2013-04-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Zack, On 16-04-13 16:37, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > (see John's brief summary [10]) and discuss further technical [...] > workshop of FSFE's European Legal Network [10]; slides are available [...] > [10]: http://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/ftf.en.html You made a minor mistake here; there is n

Re: Upstream packaging (was Re: Derivatives, MongoDB and freezes)

2013-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 25-04-13 10:50, Clint Byrum wrote: > On 2013-04-24 12:43, Guillem Jover wrote: > All of the things you mention are huge accomplishments, but the scope is > what I am suggesting has gotten out of hand. Do we really need "a high > level view" and "QA of the entire system" for MongoDB? We don't ne

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

2013-04-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Ben, On 25-04-13 18:22, Ben Longbons wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist [...long introduction snipped] > How Simple Tasks are approached: > quick: > Debian: > - checkinstall is buggy, quirky, and has no upgrade path. > - I still haven't figured out how to do this e

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

2013-04-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
of these replies. > > As Wouter mentioned, coming up to $DISTRO and saying >> that "you guys are doing things wrong and here is how you should do" >> is like saying "please throw away 20 years of accumulated experience >> and restart from scratch". I very

Re: Bug#706255: ITP: node-slide -- Simple chain and asyncMap flow control module for Node.js

2013-04-27 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 27-04-13 10:24, Jérémy Lal wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Jérémy Lal" > > * Package name: node-slide > Version : 1.1.3 > Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter > * URL : https://github.com/isaacs/slide-flow-control > * License : Expat >

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 03-05-13 10:25, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > On 03/05/2013 16:12, Arto Jantunen wrote: > > Chow Loong Jin writes: > > > >> On 03/05/2013 15:01, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > >>> Isn't that already possible? > >> > >> It is? I should try that out with my next upload. > > > > No, it's not. Source on

Re: git as a source package format?

2013-05-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 04-05-13 05:04, Charles Plessy wrote: > In any case, please refrain passive-aggressive statements on other people's > projects. Except that this time the "project" we're talking about was one person asking another person "can you clarify what I meant?", which seems to make no sense, at all. If

Re: 2013 sometimes still feels like 2003 or 1993 (Re: NEW processing during freezes

2013-05-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 04-05-13 17:53, Michael Gilbert wrote: > And/or on the technical side, make the buildds always build twice. Not Going To Happen[tm] on my buildd hosts. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and y

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 06-05-13 14:49, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNMUs > * discarding maint

Re: debconf as a registry

2013-11-26 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 27-11-13 02:44, Joey Hess schreef: > Bas Wijnen wrote: >> Currently, many packages only do 2 > > (Citation needed.) > >> packages should implement parsing code for it in its config script. My >> point is that this results in needless code duplication. Therefore I >> would like to move this par

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 28-11-13 21:04, Niels Thykier schreef: > It has also come to our attention that a few buildds do not use > throw-away chroots. This sometimes results in unclean builds and we > have therefore decided to only consider architectures which use > throw-away chroots for all suites on all buildds as c

Re: Fwd: Re: several SIGSEGV bugs in debian 7/AMD64

2014-01-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 28-12-13 21:52, René Kuligowski schreef: > Hi Adrian, > > > Thanks for your quick answer,… but (sounds like a pouting little boy, I > know): > Sorry, but I cannot file a bug report against, say, nvidia-glx, because > it is most likely not the cause. The problem is far more likely kernel > 3.x

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2014-01-04 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 23-12-13 23:43, Clint Adams schreef: > GPLv2-only folks should be made to see how their antisocial > behavior is harming everyone. I think this is a delightful > situation for them to be in. I am not a member of the church of GNU, nor do I wish to be. I respect Richard Stallman (and his band o

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op 05-01-14 15:57, Clint Adams schreef: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 05:07:29PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> This goes for GPLvX "or later", but also for other "or later" licenses, >> where they exist. >> >> I'm convinced that the GPLv2 is a fr

Re: Valve games for Debian Developers

2014-01-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 01:00:10AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:26:26AM +0330, ?? ?? wrote: > > Hey, this looks more like an anti-Valve trap for DDs aimed to slow down > > development of Debian as base of Steam OS by steering their time spending > > f

Re: Bug#737634: dpkg-dev: please reject native/non-native version when building native/non-native source packages

2014-02-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Sigh. On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 12:59:23PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > Using packages to support upstream development is a common problem and > this is exactly where things get awkward. No, it is not a *problem*; it is a *method* of doing things. It is not your place (nor mine) to question anoth

Re: when will we finally throw away binary uploads (Re: Please upgrade your build environment when you are affected by transition

2014-02-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:52:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:17:46PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > > See https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=html2text - you can only > > hope that I've build it in a clean environment and there aint a logfile for > > the am

Re: when will we finally throw away binary uploads (Re: Please upgrade your build environment when you are affected by transition

2014-02-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 02:10:38PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst , 2014-02-14, 14:01: > >>I'm told there's at least some magic address you can mail the > >>logs to, but I never remember what it is. (It's all a > >>workaround anyway.) &g

Re: Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:28:30PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > Kevin Chadwick : > >> Doesn't matter) rc.local shouldn't be used by local > >> admin to start services from. Why not use usual init-script? > > > > I wouldn't be surprised if rc.local has been around longer than Debian > > and

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:57:53AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 02/17/2014 08:37 AM, Chow Loong Jin wrote: > > It might just be that DDs/"computer experts" just have more customized > > setups > > that break in interesting ways when effort isn't spent porting the > > configuration

Re: Re: Upstart support for LSB headers (Two line init.d scripts? Sure, that will work!)

2014-02-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:00:36PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:19:24PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 03:28:30PM +0400, Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > > > Kevin Chadwick : > > > >> Doesn't matter

Re: pulseaudio related problems....

2014-02-18 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 05:25:13PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 17 février 2014 à 13:24 +, Wookey a écrit : > > The main complaint in this thread seems to be 'my sound worked with > > ALSA, but installing PA stopped/stops it working'. It seems to me that > > PA should try very har

Re: contrib and nonfree distribs

2014-02-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vrijdag 28 februari 2014 10:35:15 schreef Solal Rastier: > Why the "nonfree" and "contrib" distributions aren't removed? Because unfortunately the free software foundation believes documentation doesn't need to be free, and we can't put non-free documentation in main. -- This end should poin

Re: contrib and nonfree distribs

2014-03-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 02:16:37PM +0100, Solal Rastier wrote: > The installer recommend "contrib" and "nonfree"... No, it does not. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to spac

Re: libphobos-dev build-dep

2014-03-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 12:53:55AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Steve Langasek, le Sat 22 Mar 2014 12:43:56 -0700, a écrit : > > Um, no, build-depending on virtual packages is absolutely allowed. > > Yes, but something has to make the buildd pick up one package which > provides it. It won't de

Re: ca-certificates: no more cacert.org certificates?!?

2014-03-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 02:58:55PM +0100, Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Adrien CLERC wrote: > > > Le 24/03/2014 14:23, Raphael Geissert a écrit : > > >> Anyway, I strongly recommend that nobody waste their time on an issue > > >> which in a couple of years will be much less relevan

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 09:07:14AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Here is a little bug I just discovered: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22664658/finding-off-t-size > > For reference, here are the packages affected in debian: > > http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=LARGE_OFF_T > >

Re: systemd and Linux are *fundamentally incompatible* -> and I can prove it

2014-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 09:19:54PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > previously on this list The Wanderer contributed: > > > I was explicitly referring to the point in the future when maintainers > > do stop providing traditional init scripts. This likely won't happen > > that fast, no, but I do thin

Re: Having fun with the following C code (UB)

2014-04-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:29:50PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst , 2014-04-10, 12:03: > >I've had to figure out the size of off_t in nbd-server, and have been > >doing it without relying on overflow, for years now. It took quite a few > >iterations to get

Bug#745385: ITP: ola -- open lighting architecture

2014-04-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wouter Verhelst * Package name: ola Version : 0.9.0 Upstream Author : the Open Lighting team * URL : http://www.openlighting.org/ * License : GPL, LGPL Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : Open Lighting

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op zaterdag 26 april 2014 16:51:57 schreef Ben Finney: > "Steve M. Robbins" writes: > > On April 25, 2014 11:02:29 PM Ben Finney wrote: > > > We promise the source for everything any recipient downloads as part > > > of Debian. If non-source files are distributed in Debian source > > > packages,

Re: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699

2014-05-06 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vrijdag 25 april 2014 19:34:02 schreef Daniel Pocock: > When FTP masters approve a package from NEW, they might well see that > the js is not really in use - but somebody (upstream or maintainer) > may change something after 6 months and the js does get used That argument goes for just about a

Re: concurrent installation of different pkg versions

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Charles, Op zaterdag 26 april 2014 14:29:44 schreef Charles Plessy: > Le Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 10:11:58PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 02:07:22PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > Le Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:41:17AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > > > On Sat, Apr 26

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Jonas, [re-sending, since my first attempt did not make the list] Op vrijdag 18 april 2014 12:43:40 schreef Jonas Smedegaard: > Thanks, but (again) I am sorry if it was not clear: The *question* is > about *debconf* irregardless of the *example* involving other details. > > Here's another exa

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op vrijdag 2 mei 2014 15:58:37 schreef Paul Tagliamonte: > If you were to 'update' the image, how would you do it? What things > would you need? Include that. Think about what you'd need when you fork > the project. Does that mean I should include "wget"? Most minified externally-produced javascr

Re: lintian "source-is-missing" for jquery -- was Re: Bug#744699: Frets On Fire bug report 744699

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > No. The requirement is that the source is part of the source package. [citation needed] The only requirement I know of is that the source is part of *a* source package, not necessarily the same one. (consider "Built-Using") --

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op woensdag 7 mei 2014 20:14:50 schreef Ben Finney: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > Op vrijdag 2 mei 2014 15:58:37 schreef Paul Tagliamonte: > > > If you were to 'update' the image, how would you do it? What things > > > would you need? Include that. Think about

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op woensdag 7 mei 2014 12:59:57 schreef Jonas Smedegaard: > Hi Wouter, > > Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2014-05-07 11:34:23) > > > What you seem to want is a unified and standardized way for one > > package to provide an API for changing things about how the package >

Re: debconf reconfiguration from postinst of another package

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op woensdag 7 mei 2014 12:19:31 schreef Philip Hands: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > > One way this could work is by adding a SETOTHER message (name could > > probably be better), which asks debconf to change a value for a given > > debconf question in another pa

Re: Non-source Javascript files in upstream source

2014-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op woensdag 7 mei 2014 23:18:00 schreef Ben Finney: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > The point is, I'm having a hard time buying the argument that if the > > minified javascript was unmodified, and if the non-minified javascript > > library is in the archive (or a version

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:56:28AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > - The long standing project of enabling autosigning for the buildds also > got finished. That means that packages successfully built can now be > uploaded automatically, without waiting for the buildd admin to wake > up/come bac

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:26:02PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hi > > >> - The long standing project of enabling autosigning for the buildds also > >> got finished. That means that packages successfully built can now be > >> uploaded automatically, without waiting for the buildd admin to wak

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Phil, [ Note: re-reading, I find that my mail could be read as "heated", which it wasn't meant to be. I'm firm in what I believe needs to be done, but not angry :-) ] On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 03:08:12PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > > So, AIUI, only members of the wbadm GID can change keys, not

Re: Meeting Minutes, FTPMaster meeting March 2011

2011-03-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:19:32PM +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-03-28, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > But I'd think that "making sure this buildd host can still do uploads in > > a timely manner when the key expires" is pretty well inside the realm of > &g

Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames

2011-04-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > >Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common) > > >> using CDs and DV

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-04-29 Thread Wouter Verhelst
did not finish. See this archives of netconf-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > > for more info. > > Instead of Martin's project you might want to look into ipcfg by Wouter > Verhelst, which is in experimental already. Yes, except that it's not very useful in its current state. The

Using -Werror in CFLAGS for a debian package build

2011-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi -devel, I was working on nbd-server upstream, and so had ran ./configure with CFLAGS='-Wall -Werror', which I consider good practice when writing C code. What I didn't notice immediately was that gcc was emitting some warnings, but that the -Werror option was not honored for those warnings. In

Re: Using -Werror in CFLAGS for a debian package build

2011-05-16 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:04:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > What I didn't notice immediately was that gcc was emitting some > > warnings, but that the -Werror option was not honored for those > > warnings. Investigating turn

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-05-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:44:33PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >dh-make > > Seriously? Are you, grown-up developers, using it? oO Me, not anymore since it switched to debhelper7 'dh' mode. Before that, it contained a number of useful debian/rules templates for "old"style debhelper-only usage. --

Re: packaging-dev meta package

2011-06-08 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 07:27:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Me, not anymore since it switched to debhelper7 'dh' mode. Before that, > > it contained a number of useful debian/rules templates for "old&

Re: pam_listfile / pam_supair

2011-06-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 06:51:48AM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2011-06-27 18:42, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 05:49:34PM +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > >> This specifies that users sf, u2 and u3 can each do passwordless su to > >> users root and sf2. User sf2 can

Re: Multiarch in Debian unstable

2011-06-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 02:30:51AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-06-27 15:59:27 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > > If by "fat binaries" you mean executables, > > No, I meant libraries (the term "fat binary" is used by the GMP library, > but is here restricted to x86 subarchs). > > > If by

Re: Multiarch and D-Bus

2011-07-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 11:49:11AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > a major accessibility regression. I however believe corba can be used > over TCP/IP, I would be *very* surprised if that wasn't true -- CORBA was meant to be used over TCP/IP, using it to localhost or over a unix domain socket is j

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:05:56PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > I think the important question is whether portability to other kernels is or > should be a "project's goal", and how much else you're willing to lose for > the sake of that goal. Debian/kFreeBSD is here to stay, it's not going away. Wi

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:48:35PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > By the way, I think "in exchange for faster boot" is focusing too narrowly on > boot speed. It's not like boot speed would be the only reason to avoid shell. You do realize that you're talking to a mailinglist populated mostly by peopl

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 01:12:33PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:05:56PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > > I think the important question is whether portability to other kernels is > > > or > > >

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:59:13PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > > > > Debian/kFreeBSD is here to stay, it's not going away. With that as a > > > > given, systemd is suddenly a lot less interesting. > > > > >

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:38:04PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 19, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > kFreeBSD is currently released as a "technology preview". With that, we > > mean it works, but it isn't necessarily ready yet for prime usage. The > > fa

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 08:25:19PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Even if you disagree about systemd upstream's views on portability that does > not change the quality of the software and how it performs on Linux. IMO > attitudes like "if upstream holds such heretical views then their software is > no

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 09:52:30PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Adam D. Barratt adam-barratt.org.uk> writes: > > Proof by assertion isn't an argument. If you think kfreebsd sucks then > > you're entitled to that opinion, but please don't seek to frame it as > > some sort of consensus direction on

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 05:31:37PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Debian is the 'Universal' operating system > > "Universal operating system" is a phrase that was added to our website > most likely by Bruce Perens in April 1997. (He pos

Re: [Lennart Poettering] Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-20 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 04:31:24PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jul 20, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > > Again, why? > > ZFS is a pretty big one. > It is about as stable as BTRFS on Linux, so I do not see either a > compelling argument right now. Do you have any data to back up that statement? The

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:09:11PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > A lot of those /etc/default files have a ENABLED=YES flags, which are not > particularly useful with systemd, as systemd provides proper mechanisms to > enable/disable services in a convenient way. That this is not particularly usefu

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:09:02PM -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Marc Haber > wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:12:13 -0300, Fernando Lemos > > wrote: > >>A more realistic option would be launching a program (or script) which > >>would read a configuration file

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:16:15PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:59:40PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > >That this is not particularly useful is not specific to any init > >implementation. I hate 'ENABLED=' configuration options with a passion.

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 at 21:59:40 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > even init.d has a documented (and what's > > more, actually *working*) implementation of not starting daemons at > > boot. It's cal

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:41:59AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Wouter Verhelst > > Hi Wouter, > > | At any rate, by not wanting to do scripts, you're making life harder for > | yourself, since now you suddenly have to implement everything what > | people ha

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-03 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:17:51PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 08:27:04PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 05:38:43PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > > I would be glad if all services (at least network-enabled or especially > > > insecure for

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-08-05 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:41:29AM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > Hi, > > Le 03/08/11 17:23, Wouter Verhelst a écrit : > > On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:17:51PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 08:27:04PM +, Clint Adams wrote: > >&g

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

2011-08-17 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:43:04AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Iustin Pop wrote: > > There is also information on Wikipedia about various compression > > benchmarks, but IMHO if we want to switch from gzip then bzip2 > > doesn't make sense for /usr/share/doc. > > I'd like t

Re: [dd-list] Please use Architecture: linux-any

2011-08-28 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:11:40AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: >ntfs-3g I was under the impression that ntfs-3g was a FUSE implementation, which should in theory work on kFreeBSD too. But don't take my word for it :-) -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by

Re: Maintainers, porters, and burden of porting

2011-09-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 03:33:06PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:34:41PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > > > - Being able to judge whether the maintainers have done their part in > > > reaching out to porters is a requisite for the above. And to do so, we > > > reall

Re: making encrypted $HOME as easy and convenient as possible

2011-09-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 02:23:37PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > I think it would be wonderful to have such ease-of-use $HOME > encryption in Debian. Ubuntu's scheme uses ecryptfs. Before I begin > looking into how best I might help work towards this, I was wondering > if experienced people could w

Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 06:24:00PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > It appears that the appropriate resolution of #769106 [1] is to add a new > pre-depends on python-minimal in python. > > This issue at hand is that at the time python2.7-minimal is configured, > python > is unpacked, but python

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

2014-11-22 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 12:37:06PM +0100, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > > >>> - Debian should ship a default set of firewall rules. Are we the only > >>> distro which doesn't do this? I mean a basic ruleset which drops > >>> incoming, accepts outgoing and accepts related,establised is so easy to > >>>

Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 05:06:25PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst , 2014-11-22, 08:25: > >>It appears that the appropriate resolution of #769106 [1] is to add a > >>new pre-depends on python-minimal in python. > >> > >>This issue at hand i

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