Re: MBF: Getting rid of unneeded *.la / emptying dependency_libs

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:41:37AM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > > > This apparently just isn't true. I could have sworn that we had a > > > > check, > > > > but we apparently do not. We definitely should. That's probably why > > > > there are so many problems; I suspect a lot of them would g

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > You are both taking out of context a specific example within a larger > discussion that had nothing to do with your reply, and attributing to > me rather impressive and stunning power over Debian as a whole. :) I object! How dare you call me short! :-) -- \ “What

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney writes: > Russ Allbery writes: >> If upstream is using some other weird thing like bzr or Mercurial or >> whatnot, we're now getting into rather more effort than I'd personally >> want to bother with. > If Bazaar and Mercurial are “some other weird thing”, that doesn't bode > well fo

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > If upstream is using some other weird thing like bzr or Mercurial or > whatnot, we're now getting into rather more effort than I'd personally > want to bother with. If Bazaar and Mercurial are “some other weird thing”, that doesn't bode well for the future of the Debian to

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Ben Finney
Joey Hess writes: > I would instead suggest we deprecate packages not including upstream > source in their VCS. The weight of progress is against that practice; It is? Where can I read about this supposed weight of progress? Keeping the debian packaging files in a separate repository suits me ju

Re: Bits from the 4th Debian Groupware Meeting

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew McMillan
Hi Guido, I have an interest in calendaring & contacts myself, and while I probably can't make it to such meetings very often in Europe I'd appreciate being aware of plans, just in case I can participate in some useful way, even if remotely. Thanks, Andrew.

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: > So I can still see the point of somewhere adding a pointer to the upstream > VCS repository. > > However, is the control file really the right place for that? I guess we > don't have a better place right now, but this doesn't feel like package > metadata

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Joey Hess writes: > Evgeni Golov wrote: >> We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it >> would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to >> be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in >> debian's vcs (which is often the case

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Evgeni Golov wrote: > We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it > would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to > be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in > debian's vcs (which is often the case when using svn-bp or git-

Bug#621465: ITP: dee -- model to synchronize mutiple instances over DBus

2011-04-06 Thread Kartik Mistry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kartik Mistry -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: dee Version : 0.5.16 Upstream Author : Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen , Neil Jagdish Patel * URL : https://launchpad.net/dee * License : LGPL-3

swetha sharma has invited you to open a Google mail account

2011-04-06 Thread swetha sharma
I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account. You're Invited to Gmail! swetha sharma has invited you to open a Gmail account. Gmail is Google's free email service, built on the idea that email can be intuitive, efficient, and fun. G

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:51:08PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Mittwoch 06 April 2011, 19:05:11 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: > > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to > > > > work manuall

Unofficial Debian Monthly Testing Snapshot Release (version 2011.04)

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi all, I am pleased to announce the unofficial Debian monthly testing snapshot release for April 2011 (version 2011.04). This release is currently available in two flavors, i386 and amd64, as mini iso images (16 MiB each) downloadable from: http:

Teksts kādas nimfomānīgas sievietes dienasgrāmatā! Ak, šī trakā pasaule!

2011-04-06 Thread Lausko Aleksandrs
Ieraksts vienas debešķīgas pežiņas īpašnieces dienasgrāmatā: Sestdiena. Es izlīdu no gultas ar draiskulīgu sajūtu starp kājām. Sajutu tādu kā tukšumu sevī. Man savajadzējās locekli. Lielu un stingru. Gribējās tam uzsēsties virsū. Es to izdarīju: http://www.vilt.us -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Bug#620808: ITP: payyans -- A python utility to convert between ASCII and Unicode.

2011-04-06 Thread jidanni
Also note the uni2ascii package. -- 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/87oc4ipyyw@jidanni.org

¿Voto Seguro? .publicidad le geh

2011-04-06 Thread ¿Voto Seguro?
¿VOTO SEGURO? VOTA POR KEIKO Alejandro Toledo viene gastando importantes sumas de dinero en intentar convencer a la población que votar por él para alcanzar un esenario de segunda vuelta Toledo - Humala, es un "voto seguro". Nada más equivocado, el voto de mayor riesgo en primera vuelta es j

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-06 18:26:45 +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > If you do `ifdown`, either manually or by unplugging the cable, the > problem doesn't appear to exist. Calling ifupdown may be inserted into > the suspend/resume scripts. I wonder why this isn't done by default. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-06 Thread Carsten Hey
* Luk Claes [2011-04-06 07:20 +0200]: > On 04/06/2011 01:55 AM, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Guaranteeing that /bin/sh exists and is functional during debootstrap, > > even before any maintainer script has been run, could be archived if > > every system shell would provide /bin/sh pointing to itself. To

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Jan Hauke Rahm
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 08:55:05PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 06.04.2011, 11:39 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:28:39PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > There should be a Vcs-Debian-* too and used in most cases. A package > > > should use Vcs-Debi

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-06 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 06:04:20PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > Hi > > bash is not the default system shell anymore. It's now only the default > user shell. As such it is not required for a sysadmin to boot and > install software. Besides that some users would like to get rid of bash > in their envir

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Mittwoch 06 April 2011, 19:05:11 schrieb Stanislav Maslovski: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to > > > work manually for your specific setup, and since it’s not event-based > >

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 06.04.2011, 11:39 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:28:39PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > > We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it > > > would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to > > > be able

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:28:39PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > > We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it > > would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to > > be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in > > debian's vc

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Then you can stack all soft of stuff on top of it, and get them to > > work manually for your specific setup, and since it’s not event-based > > you have

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Stanislav Maslovski
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 07:29:05AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 05 avril 2011 à 02:08 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski a écrit : > > Well, that is not the question of how many, that is the question of > > can you do a given task or not with a given tool. NM is limited in all > > possible wa

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there! On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:54:53 +0200, Roger Leigh wrote: > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > new top-level directory, /run. > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early > boot, and which will replace /var/run. This will be don

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-06 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2011-04-06T16:45:03+02:00 * Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski (Sun Apr 3 > 12:37:26 2011): >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >>> But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional >>> replacement, I would question Debian's capac

Bug#621115: ITP: skytools-3.0 -- Skype tools for PostgreSQL replication and queueing

2011-04-06 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Package: wnpp Owner: Dimitri Fontaine Severity: wishlist * Package name: skytools-3.0 Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Marko Kreen, Skype Technologies OÜ * URL or Web page : Skype tools for PostgreSQL replication and queueing * License : BSD Description : Skype tools

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: > Stanislav Maslovski (Sun Apr  3 12:37:26 > 2011): >> On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: >> > But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional >> > replacement, I would question Debian'

Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ti, 2011-04-05 at 08:52 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > I'm re-running the scripts, which will probably take a few hours, and > will report results when they're done. If you notice any problems with > the scripts, please tell me ASAP. The new scripts look also in maintainer scripts. New results

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Andrew O. Shadoura
Hello, On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:40:43 +0200 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > That's not sufficient, because if a DHCP client is still running (e.g. > because the previous configuration used DHCP), one needs to kill it > before using a fixed IP address (in eth-home). If you do `ifdown`, either manually or

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Stanislav Maslovski (Sun Apr 3 12:37:26 2011): > On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:11:03AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > But if network-manager would become default and ifupdown an optional > > replacement, I would question Debian's capacity to make technically > > excellent decisions and wonder, ho

Re: Bug#620458: base-files: Please make /var/run world-writable and sticky, like /var/lock and /tmp

2011-04-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russell Coker writes: > On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: >> sorry for a blunt follow-up -- wouldn't making /var/run writable by >> regular mortals ask for security concerns if an attacker starts >> pre-creating files/pipes trying to steal the communications of >> daemons spawned by

Re: Proposed pre-depends addition: all multiarched libs -> multiarch-support

2011-04-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:12:29AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 at 11:12:54 +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 12:36:05AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> > > Specifically, the plan is that any package in wheezy shipping a runti

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-04-06 Thread Bjørn Mork
Brett Parker writes: > Everything that you can do with ifupdown you can do with network > manager, That's simply not true. You cannot use n-m remotely without having some out-of-band access. For a start. Fix that, and I'll come back with the next issue. You don't seem to have a clue wrt the

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 06.04.2011 15:50, schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:54:53AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> I'm just mentioning this here because udev started to use /run before >> we had completed our work, and without a versioned dependency, causing >> breakage. If you are planning on using /run

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 09:54:53AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > I'm just mentioning this here because udev started to use /run before > we had completed our work, and without a versioned dependency, causing > breakage. If you are planning on using /run, please hold fire for a > few days longer unti

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 02:11:35PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-04-06 07:24:30 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > There are several hacks to do that (like guessnet or laptop-net), but I > > don’t think this can work correctly in the general case with IPv4. > > FYI, I had used laptop-net

Re: Bits from keyring-maint

2011-04-06 Thread Werner Koch
Hi, I do not think that it is a good idea to push for 4k RSA keys! You gain nothing from it except for slowness on small devices. Debian is used on a lot of small devices. Further DDs are strongly represented in the WoT and thus many keyrings will increase in size and checking all the signatures

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/06/2011 03:13 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/06/2011 04:54 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a >> new top-level directory, /run. >> >> This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early >> boot, and which

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/06/2011 04:54 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > Hi, > > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > new top-level directory, /run. > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early > boot, and which will replace /var/run. Why this change? Thomas --

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-06 07:24:30 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > There are several hacks to do that (like guessnet or laptop-net), but I > don’t think this can work correctly in the general case with IPv4. FYI, I had used laptop-net in the past, but it has been removed from Debian: http://bugs.debian.or

Re: time based freezes

2011-04-06 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 04/05/2011 06:55 PM, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Bernd Zeimetz [2011-04-05 15:04]: > >> On 04/04/2011 01:15 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >> >>> most of the work is done by our upstreams, and by simply telling >>> them "we'll freeze PICK_YOUR_MONTH every even/odd year" will (in the long >>> term)

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-04-06 11:22:07 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Not everything in /etc/shells is POSIXy enough to be /bin/sh. The > *csh family aren't Bourne shells, and while zsh is a very nice > Bourne-ish interactive shell, in its default configuration it isn't > POSIX-compliant. When invoked as sh, zsh

Re: Back to technical discussion? Yes! (was: network-manager as default? No!)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2011-04-05 20:37:39 +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 14:31:40 +0200 > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > [About the general problem of documentation] > > The problem is to find the correct tools and the correct > > documentation. For instance, imagine the averag

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Niels Thykier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 2011-04-06 13:12, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:18:32 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:54:53 (CEST), Roger Leigh wrote: As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we hav

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:18:32 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:54:53 (CEST), Roger Leigh wrote: > > > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > > > new top-level directory, /run. > > > > > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will

Re: Updating GPG howto (http://keyring.debian.org/creating-key.html)

2011-04-06 Thread Vincent Caron
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 01:09 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 05:15:15PM +0200, Vincent Caron wrote: > > 2/ It is suggested to update gnupg.conf with: > > > > personal-digest-preferences SHA256 > > cert-digest-algo SHA256 > > default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:18:32 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:54:53 (CEST), Roger Leigh wrote: > > > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > > new top-level directory, /run. > > > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be prese

Re: More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Mittwoch, den 06.04.2011, 12:06 +0200 schrieb Evgeni Golov: > Hi -devel! > > We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it > would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to > be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in > debi

Re: Shipping /bin/sh [Re: Moving bash from essential/required to important?]

2011-04-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 at 01:55:20 +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > It would also need to assure that whilst > it is running /bin/sh is always functional. Passing a shell to it that > is not included in /etc/shells could lead to failing of this tool, > unless --force is used. Not everything in /etc/shell

Re: Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Reinhard Tartler
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:54:53 (CEST), Roger Leigh wrote: > As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a > new top-level directory, /run. > > This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early > boot, and which will replace /var/run. This will be done by

More Vcs-Fields in debian/control?

2011-04-06 Thread Evgeni Golov
Hi -devel! We (lindi, liw and me) had just a short discussion in #-devel, that it would be nice to have some sort of Vcs-Upstream-* in debian/control, to be able to get to upstreams vcs history if it is not imported in debian's vcs (which is often the case when using svn-bp or git-bf with import-o

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Philip Hands
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > ... and since it’s not event-based you have to hard-code the way your > network is set up. I think this is the vital difference -- those that prefer ifupdown do so because they prefer to be in tight control of what is happening on thei

Re: network-manager as default? No! (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-04-06 Thread Brett Parker
On 06 Apr 09:10, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:29:05 +0200 > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Your limited knowledge is like jam. The less you have, the more you > > spread it. > > Well, you have just confirmed this statement. > > > What you actually like about ifu

Please do not use /run yet

2011-04-06 Thread Roger Leigh
Hi, As of base-files 6.2 which went into unstable yesterday, we have a new top-level directory, /run. This directory will contain a tmpfs which will be present from early boot, and which will replace /var/run. This will be done by initscripts, which we are waiting to be uploaded. For the time b

Re: Making "may not be removed" and "needed

2011-04-06 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek [110405 20:29]: > > I think it might be nice if those two aspects could be isolated somehow. > > This could also reduce the size of some build chroots and the set of > > packages > > any boot-strap code has to handle specially[1]. With all the essential > > stuff only needed for