Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:10:42AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/05/11 at 23:46 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > Benefits for Debian: > > > - attract users who think that testing is only a development branch, and > > > want newer software than what one finds in stable. Those users are >

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Carsten Hey wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-01 23:17 +0200]: > > The problem is, you need to entry points, one for testing as we know it, > > one for rolling. > > Actually, we need two entry points each, a default one and an > exceptional one. The lat

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-05-01 Thread Fernando Lemos
2011/5/1 Miroslav Suchý : > Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): >> >> * It doesn't have a good command-line interface > > It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in > NetworkManager: > nm-cli > nm-tool > nm-online > > I'm not sure if this qualify as "good command-l

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Pierre Habouzit [2011-05-01 23:17 +0200]: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:07:48PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > > Testing, OTOH, is really unique in that respect, with its mixture of > > > > fresh software and quarantine period. > > > > > > A 'frozen

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread sean finney
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:17:21PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > The problem is, you need to entry points, one for testing as we know it, > one for rolling. > So basically you split our users in two non overlapping sets, meaning > that you divide coverage and tests. How come is that in the distr

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 23:46 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Benefits for Debian: > > - attract users who think that testing is only a development branch, and > > want newer software than what one finds in stable. Those users are > > likely to be rather advanced users (developers, free software > >

Re: network-manager as default? No!

2011-05-01 Thread Miroslav Suchý
Dne 3.4.2011 18:08, Fernando Lemos napsal(a): * It doesn't have a good command-line interface It does have CLI interface. Those commands are bundled directly in NetworkManager: nm-cli nm-tool nm-online I'm not sure if this qualify as "good command-line interface" :) Miroslav Suchy -- To U

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
Hi On Sunday 01 May 2011, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2011-05-01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > - I've talked at several trade shows and conferences with developers of > > rolling distros based on Debian (in particular: Aptosid/Sidux and > > Linux Mint Debian Edition). They usually claim they ha

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:39:47PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/05/11 at 22:48 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > It's clear that we are not going to stop doing stable releases anytime > > > soon. However, there seem to be

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 22:48 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > It's clear that we are not going to stop doing stable releases anytime > > soon. However, there seem to be some interest in the "rolling release" > > concept. The question is: ca

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Kel Modderman
Hi Stefano, On Mon, 2 May 2011 06:41:07 AM Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:46PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Those are real users from real life. I'm not saying "we"-re > > representative of a majority of Debian Users, but unlike all the > > handwaived users we've re

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread sean finney
Hi Ste(ve|fano), On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 12:02:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > JFYI, Sean and Raphael have taken DEP number 10 > > They have? I haven't seen mail to debian-project about this, which is what > http://dep.d

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-05-01, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > - I've talked at several trade shows and conferences with developers of > rolling distros based on Debian (in particular: Aptosid/Sidux and > Linux Mint Debian Edition). They usually claim they have built those > distros because Debian wasn't offeri

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:07:48PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: > > > Testing, OTOH, is really unique in that respect, with its mixture of > > > fresh software and quarantine period. > > > > A 'frozen' requiring most updates to go through *-proposed-updat

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Carsten Hey wrote: > > Testing, OTOH, is really unique in that respect, with its mixture of > > fresh software and quarantine period. > > A 'frozen' requiring most updates to go through *-proposed-updates would > make this quarantine period a lot less useful, and it would make

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:41:07PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:46PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Those are real users from real life. I'm not saying "we"-re > > representative of a majority of Debian Users, but unlike all the > > handwaived users we've read

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/05/11 at 22:17 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:35:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > > [ Note that my position is based on the assumption that we have a > > > share of DDs interested in rolling s

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Carsten Hey
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2011-05-01 15:43 +0200]: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:06:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I think that we should not do any trade off on the quality of > > rolling/testing/the-antechamber-of-stable, but instead raise the quality > > of unstable so that (which isn't *that

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 10:08:46PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Those are real users from real life. I'm not saying "we"-re > representative of a majority of Debian Users, but unlike all the > handwaived users we've read about in this thread, those are real. First of all I think you should conc

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 22:17 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:35:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > [ Note that my position is based on the assumption that we have a > > share of DDs interested in rolling similar to the share of DDs > > interested in stable releases. Unfortunat

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > Out of curiosity, have the d-i discussed with the release team the > possibility of presenting them as alpha/beta/... of Debian as a whole? It seemed better when I was leading d-i to just do it, rather than talk about doing it. (Which AFAICS also holds true of this thr

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 04:26:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Who are they? Unlike this constant handwaving, I've shared my experience > ^^^ > If you feel that my contributions and experience in Debian consist of > constant handw

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Who are they? Unlike this constant handwaving, I've shared my experience ^^^ If you feel that my contributions and experience in Debian consist of constant handwaving, feel free to ignore and dismiss me. -- see shy jo signatur

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:35:07PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > [ Note that my position is based on the assumption that we have a > share of DDs interested in rolling similar to the share of DDs > interested in stable releases. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to > know where we stand regarding

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 04:01:20PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a > > Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the 3-4 > > things I need bleeding edge for). For my desktop I use unstable

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 05/01/2011 08:02 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: There are "compromise" solutions, too: [Plan C -- freeze rolling before forking frozen:] - do plan A. - But When the release team decides to do a general freeze, rolling is frozen for a few months to maximize user testing and developer a

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Joey Hess
Pierre Habouzit wrote: > FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a > Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the 3-4 > things I need bleeding edge for). For my desktop I use unstable, and > when that breaks (which is *very* rare, really) I go to sna

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 20:55 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > On 01/05/11 at 18:38 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > You're saying: > > > > > > Problem: > > > I acknowledge that people are not interested in stable releases > > >

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 20:51 +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun May 01, 2011 at 20:02:51 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > 2. determine who is in support of each action plan, through a GR or a > > poll. > > I don't think we need a GR for that. Those who are interested in rolling > releases

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 09:43:51PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:55:25PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > (1) you'll split the userbase, some of the users will use rolling > > instead of testing, and during the freeze we're very interested > > about our user

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 04:17:10PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > JFYI, Sean and Raphael have taken DEP number 10 They have? I haven't seen mail to debian-project about this, which is what http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/ requires? (The chance of a collision here is quite small of course, b

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/05/11 at 18:38 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > You're saying: > > > > Problem: > > I acknowledge that people are not interested in stable releases > > enough and that the RT has to compensate all the time. > > Tho

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sun May 01, 2011 at 20:02:51 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > 2. determine who is in support of each action plan, through a GR or a > poll. I don't think we need a GR for that. Those who are interested in rolling releases could show that they are interested and just doing so (like Norbert/f

Bug#624808: ITP: python-enet -- wrapper for the ENet networking library

2011-05-01 Thread Christoph Egger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Egger * Package name: python-enet Version : 0.0~svn21 Upstream Author : Andrew Resch * URL : http://code.google.com/p/pyenet/ * License : GPL (buildsystem), MIT/X Programming Lang: Cython, Python Descriptio

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/05/11 at 18:38 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > You're saying: > > Problem: > I acknowledge that people are not interested in stable releases > enough and that the RT has to compensate all the time. Those two statements are true: - A subset of DDs care about doing stable releases.

Qt3 looking for adopters

2011-05-01 Thread Ana Guerrero
Hi, kdelibs3 was removed recently from the archive and the last tiny bit of KDE 3 remaining, aRts, will be removed quite soon. This means the KDE team is not longer interested in Qt3 and we are looking for new maintainer(s). Personally, I would have gone for removing Qt3 too but the following

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stefano Zacchiroli | I've been dreaming of a similar integration in Debian since the days | where I was pushing for the Vcs-* headers, but as you explained later on | in your mail the problem is: how can we converge on a specific Vcs in | Debian? Or, even easier, how can we converge on the gua

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 19:04]: > WRT the signing key, there would need to be some form of trust path > or else the signature would be worthless. If packages are being > uploaded to Debian infrastructure, and are under our control, can't > we use a single signing key? We pres

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:24:00PM +0200, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > I was thinking of a request that would include a base suite (e.g. > squeeze, wheezy, or sid), files to drop in /etc/apt/sources.list.d (and > /etc/apt/preferences.d), and the key used to sign unofficial > repositories. Of course, th

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 18:46]: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > > How can we submit jobs to a buildd? > > > - APT entry to add (i.e. U

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 06:34:02PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > How can we submit jobs to a buildd? > > - APT entry to add (i.e. URL of the PPA so that the buildd can fetch > > build-dependen

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 03:39:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 08:41]: > > > Fixing RC bugs in testing and getting new upstream versions that are > > > ready in testing is not a burden for developers, i

How to change the world, was: Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, Marc laid that wonderful bait in this thread to which then Stefano bite, and then the thread ended after some clarification by Marc where IMHO there was no clarification needed [not shown]. On 04/30/2011 12:28 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:28:17AM +0200, Marc '

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org) [110501 18:24]: > Le 01/05/2011 17:16, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > Well yes, but how many autobuilding suites should we add? 50? 100? > > 200? How do we do key management so that we know that the autobuilder > > build the packages that they should? > > Why wou

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 18:23]: > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > However, to get that done right for multiple software is not so easy. > > But please prove me wrong - as soon as 2. is done, I'm happy to help > > setting up autobuilding (even if that happens thi

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 01/05/2011 17:16, Andreas Barth a écrit : >> I don't understand why this is only point 5. Setting up a custom >> repository easily usable is quite easy... and done already >> (mozilla.debian.net has been mentioned; I also happen to provide >> unofficial packages on ocaml.debian.net). > > It's e

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > However, to get that done right for multiple software is not so easy. > But please prove me wrong - as soon as 2. is done, I'm happy to help > setting up autobuilding (even if that happens this afternoon). It > needs however done in a way where buildds on

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Simon Josefsson
Roger Leigh writes: > This is the root cause, I think. libgcrypt was developed as part of > gnutls, and although it's a separate library, it's insufficiently > generalised. It's implicitly doing things the way gnutls wanted them > doing, and rather than making the library completely general and

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stéphane Glondu (glo...@debian.org) [110501 17:00]: > Le 01/05/2011 15:34, Andreas Barth a écrit : > > 1. How to push from a vcs (git, svn, ...) to ppa? (This should be > > coordinated with ftp-masters, so that the same method could be used > > later on for uploading into unstable.) > > > > 2. H

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Raphael Hertzog [2011-05-01 15:40]: > On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 08:41]: > > > Fixing RC bugs in testing and getting new upstream versions that are > > > ready in testing is not a burden for developers, it's what we're > > > supp

Re: PPA

2011-05-01 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 01/05/2011 15:34, Andreas Barth a écrit : > 1. How to push from a vcs (git, svn, ...) to ppa? (This should be > coordinated with ftp-masters, so that the same method could be used > later on for uploading into unstable.) > > 2. How could we create new ppa repositories easy enough, how do we > h

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ian Jackson (ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk) [110501 16:39]: > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them"): > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > > I second your original proposal though, that packages must not delete > > > system users th

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them"): > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > I second your original proposal though, that packages must not delete > > system users that they have created. I don't think anyone had objections > > to that,

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
Ludovico Cavedon wrote: >On 04/30/2011 04:32 PM, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a >> Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the >3-4 >> things I need bleeding edge for). For my desktop I use unstable, and >> whe

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Stefano Zacchiroli (z...@debian.org) [110501 16:12]: > On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:05:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > In the Squeeze release we have done better than before by calling for > > > explicit upgrade testing (kudos to the Release Team!), but a specific > > > plan of alpha/beta/... mi

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 10:11:49PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > > A complete aside: I have yet to see DEPs being anything but a structured > > way to bikeshed. However, if you wish to go down this route, feel free. > > This does bring me full circle back to the start of my mail - if you > > want to

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:05:35PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > In the Squeeze release we have done better than before by calling for > > explicit upgrade testing (kudos to the Release Team!), but a specific > > plan of alpha/beta/... might bring even more testing, especially if the > > media help u

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 06:50:04PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > Look at the "welcoming new contributors" GR; what did that actually > accomplish? There isn't anything new to show for it, there are no new > means to bring contributors in, and the number of new people hasn't > really changed. I

Bug#624771: ITP: garmin-ant-downloader -- retrieve information from Garmin GPS devices using ANT+

2011-05-01 Thread Christian Perrier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christian Perrier Package name: garmin-ant-downloader Version : 0:20091212 Upstream Author : p...@ant.sbrk.co.uk URL : http://www.example.org/ License : GPL v3 Programming Lang: C Description : retrieve info

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:32:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Oh yes, you really want to "attract" new contributors ? build debhub.com > (as in github) and force everyone to package stuff in there. Let people > propose patches, packaging new upstreams and so forth using merge > requests (as in

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:06:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I think that we should not do any trade off on the quality of > rolling/testing/the-antechamber-of-stable, but instead raise the quality > of unstable so that (which isn't *that* bad, unstable is rarely badly > broken, and I know lo

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 01 May 2011, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 08:41]: > > Fixing RC bugs in testing and getting new upstream versions that are > > ready in testing is not a burden for developers, it's what we're > > supposed to do to ensure we can release as quickly as

PPA (was: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy)

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Pierre Habouzit (madco...@madism.org) [110501 01:32]: > - link that PPA stuff to the main repository in a way that "merging" > PPA into unstable is just a matter of one single command, or a few. > > - make it easy for users to subscribe to PPAs, meaning you have to > have some kind o

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] >> Also libgcrypt does not seem to be designed to be used indirectly (via >> gnutls) without knowing and caring about it. (Threading, secmem). >> Which is why about 50% of all gnutls-using packages are usi

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 15:08]: > Even if the NSS situation changes, surely it's immediately obvious > that a random library function should not tamper with the uid of a > process as a side-effect? Unless the caller explicitly requested > dropping of root privs, no library has

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Andreas Metzler wrote: > Also libgcrypt does seem to be designed to be used indirectly ^ | not -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Simon Josefsson wrote: > [...] > > It appears to be usable by a lot of projects and people, so that seems > > like an exaggeration. If I have understood Werner correctly, he > > believes that it is the setuid binaries that are bro

Bug#624764: ITP: trng -- Tina's Random Number Generator Library

2011-05-01 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Torquil Macdonald Sørensen" * Package name: trng Version : 4.11 Upstream Author : Heiko Bauke * URL : http://trng.berlios.de/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : Tina's Random Number Generator Li

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Marc Haber (mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de) [110501 14:16]: > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:48:24 +0200, Andreas Barth > wrote: > >Actually, it worked quite well for both volatile and backports to > >start as a non-official service. > > Agreed for backports, violently disagreed for volatile. Volatile ha

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Metzler
Simon Josefsson wrote: [...] > It appears to be usable by a lot of projects and people, so that seems > like an exaggeration. If I have understood Werner correctly, he > believes that it is the setuid binaries that are broken and should be > fixed. [...] Hello, I would rather say he considers NS

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:48:24 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >Actually, it worked quite well for both volatile and backports to >start as a non-official service. Agreed for backports, violently disagreed for volatile. Volatile has been a source of demotivation and frustration, at least for me, since

Re: [RFC] Changing APT to pre-depend on ${shlibs:Depends}

2011-05-01 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 17:09 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:48:22PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > > "We might some day later change the way apt works for upgrades" is not an > > > argument for adding a pre-dependency now. > > > But that we do want to prevent a bro

Re: Crypto consolidation in debian ?

2011-05-01 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 03:09:48PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Roger Leigh writes: > >> > libgcrypt has some horrendous bugs which upstream refuse to fix, >> > for example the broken behaviour relating to setuid binaries >> > discussed

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) [110501 12:02]: > I just wanted to add that if you would like more statistics reporting > for this purpose, I'll be happy to add that to sbuild. I only worry about the ~20-40 packages that are currently sitting in some no_auto_build on the buildds. Not more but

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [110501 08:41]: > Fixing RC bugs in testing and getting new upstream versions that are > ready in testing is not a burden for developers, it's what we're > supposed to do to ensure we can release as quickly as possible. Who is the "we" you are speaking about

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Andreas Barth
* Ingo Jürgensmann (i...@2011.bluespice.org) [110501 11:55]: > On Sun, 1 May 2011 01:36:38 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: >> Now, what I would like to do is to write that down in a central file >> with categories. > > I would recommend to use a database, really. Sorry, but that's not at all the answ

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:36:38AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > I have a problem I need to solve in perl within wanna-build: > > Sometimes we have a few packages we don't want to build on a certain > buildds. Sometimes this is because this package needs lots of ram. Or > it takes quite long and w

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:22:51AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 01 mai 11, 09:57:50, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I think we'd like people running unstable stick with testing when we > > freeze, that makes sense, yes. > > This doesn't make sense to me, why would I want to "downgrade" to > te

Re: wanna-build / how to sort packages on buildds?

2011-05-01 Thread Ingo Jürgensmann
On Sun, 1 May 2011 01:36:38 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: Sometimes we have a few packages we don't want to build on a certain buildds. Sometimes this is because this package needs lots of ram. Or it takes quite long and would waste the parallel building a machine supports. Or whatever else. Of co

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 01 mai 11, 09:57:50, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I think we'd like people running unstable stick with testing when we > freeze, that makes sense, yes. This doesn't make sense to me, why would I want to "downgrade" to testing during the freeze? Besides, during the freeze testing and unstable

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 08:38:55AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 01:32:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a > > Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the 3-4 > > things I need bleed

Re: Bug#621833: System users: removing them

2011-05-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:31:47PM +0200, sean finney wrote: > I second your original proposal though, that packages must not delete > system users that they have created. I don't think anyone had objections > to that, and the question is whether things should be taken further. I do object to te

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:24:41PM -0700, Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > On 04/30/2011 04:32 PM, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > FWIW I think that "rolling" or "CUT" miss the point entirely. As a > > Debian user I use stable on my servers (with a few backports for the 3-4 > > things I need bleeding edge for)

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-05-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 01 mai 11, 08:38:55, Mike Hommey wrote: > > So while I do agree with the rest of your message, I do see a need to > make testing more attractive so that we have a solid user base actually > testing what we are going to release, and stop saying to people that > they shouldn't be using testin