Re: Bug#634811: ITP: dillo -- fast and light web browser based on FLTK 1.3

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:42:39 +0200 Axel Beckert wrote: > * Package name: dillo > Version : 3.0 (yet to be released) > Description : Small and fast web browser based on FLTK 1.3 > > Dillo is a multi-platform graphical web browser known for its speed and > small footprint. > >

Bug#634811: ITP: dillo -- fast and light web browser based on FLTK 1.3

2011-07-19 Thread Axel Beckert
Package: wnpp Owner: Axel Beckert Severity: wishlist * Package name: dillo Version : 3.0 (yet to be released) Upstream Author : Jorge Arellano Cid et al. * URL or Web page : http://www.dillo.org/ * License : GPLv3+ Description : Small and fast web browser based on F

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-19 at 03:49pm, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm imagining that this is a hack that was added before experimental > existed and that dev versions of scribus should go to experimental > now. In the (relatively recent) past Scribus have had features in its unstable branch that was beneficial to use

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

2011-07-19 Thread Russ Allbery
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > 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 >> fact that there currently aren't many users yet isn't surprising in that

Re: Bug#634235: ITP: mess-desktop-entries -- Desktop entries for MESS ROMS

2011-07-19 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 11-07-18 at 01:02am, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Jordi Mallach > > * Package name: mess-desktop-entries > Version : 0.2 > Upstream Author : Matthew Barnes > * URL : none > * License : GPLv3 > Programming Lang: none >

Symbolic links to kernel image files and initial RAM file system image files

2011-07-19 Thread Stephen Powell
It's hard to believe that it's been over a year since we discussed this topic. (See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2010/06/msg01049.html.) Time flies when you're having fun, I guess. ;-) Anyway, back when the boot loader hook script policy was being formulated, shortly before the Squeez

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:13:24AM +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > > My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source > licenses. I do not treat generated files as source, because, > well... they're not. > > They might come in the source tarball, like the autotools-generat

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 posted about it to > -private then; there w

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

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Joey Hess] > "Universal operating system" is a phrase that was added to our > website most likely by Bruce Perens in April 1997. (He posted about > it to -private then; there was no discussion.) Huh. I always assumed Bdale coined it for his DPL platform. Turns out this thread wasn't a _total_ w

Bug#634783: ITP: dolibarr -- ERP and CRM to manage small companies, freelances or foundations

2011-07-19 Thread Laurent Destailleur
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Laurent Destailleur * Package name: dolibarr Version : 3.1.0 Upstream Author : Laurent Destailleur * URL : http://www.dolibarr.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: PHP Description : ERP and CRM to manage small

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 Uoti Urpala
Iustin Pop debian.org> writes: > In my experience, programs written with portability in mind are much > more resilient to breakage, and thus over time they survive bit-rot much > better. Whenever I see a program that is explicitly non-portable, I tend > to discount it in favour of portable alterna

Re: No bzcat the installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-19 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi, A Terça, 19 de Julho de 2011 21:35:35 Adam D. Barratt você escreveu: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:09 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > > I'm about to file a bug, but wanted your opinion first. When installing > > the netinst from today and yesterday, and the latest weekly build CD1, > > installatio

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
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 the part of the project because > "it's obvious". What I consider ob

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

2011-07-19 Thread Iustin Pop
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:59:13PM +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > > IMAO, a statement of (paraphrased) 'portability is for weenies' isn't > > Keeping portability in mind is a good thing especially if you're doing > something > that is easily implementable with

Re: Re: No bzcat when installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-19 Thread Svante Signell
Couldn't you block the creation of weekly and daily builds when things like this happen? -- 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/130179.2740.43.camel@x60

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

2011-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
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 posted about it to -private then; there was no discussion.) Not very coincidentally, Debian made 3 press release

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > Debian is the 'Universal' operating system, and many of our developers > (including myself) pride themselves on that. We port to many > architectures, we port to multiple kernels. It's one of the defining > features of Debian: you can run it /anywhere/ This i

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Christoph Egger
> There're other blockers beside systemd to KFreeBSD being a full Debian port, > e.g. the lack of KMS in Xorg. Even the guy who gave a talk von FreeBSD at > last year's DebConf didn't use FreeBSD on his desktop. Just FWIW the guy who gave the kFreeBSD talk in Augsburg (me) was doing so from a

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

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 20:51 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > Adam D. Barratt adam-barratt.org.uk> writes: > > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 19:48 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > >> There was a discussion about whether future Debian would be > >> based on kFreeBSD, and kFreeBSD failed that on its own merits, not du

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

2011-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 19, Martin Wuertele wrote: > > So far we have one person who likes pf and one who suspects that maybe > > FreeBSD could behave better when severely overloaded. > So if trolling is on add another one: it doesn't have udev Hint: just because you cannot answer a question, it is not "trolling"

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

2011-07-19 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Barth wrote: > The decision is already taken that Debian can run on BSD kernels. So > if someone wants to revert that decision, it'd need an GR. Not the > other way. That decision was made without a GR, and can manifestly be reversed without a GR. Otherwise the release team's architecture

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Adam D. Barratt adam-barratt.org.uk> writes: > On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 19:48 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: >> There was a discussion about whether future Debian would be >> based on kFreeBSD, and kFreeBSD failed that on its own merits, not due to any >> consideration of systemd (or actually there wasn't

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

2011-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "brian m. carlson" Hi, | On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Also, I've installed systemd on my laptop and it logs almost nothing | > | to the console ("verbose" on the kernel command line does not help). | > | > try doing systemd.log_level=debug as documen

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

2011-07-19 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Marco d'Itri [2011-07-19 21:39]: > So far we have one person who likes pf and one who suspects that maybe > FreeBSD could behave better when severely overloaded. So if trolling is on add another one: it doesn't have udev Kthxgoodby -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: No bzcat the installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 22:09 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > I'm about to file a bug, but wanted your opinion first. When installing > the netinst from today and yesterday, and the latest weekly build CD1, > installation of the base system fails due to bzcat missing. Is this > known already? Yes. I

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

No bzcat the installing the weekly/daily builds of GNU/Linux installer.

2011-07-19 Thread Svante Signell
Hi, I'm about to file a bug, but wanted your opinion first. When installing the netinst from today and yesterday, and the latest weekly build CD1, installation of the base system fails due to bzcat missing. Is this known already? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Wouter Verhelst debian.org> writes: > > > kFreeBSD is hardly the only reason why systemd is a bad idea for Debian. > > > > It's the only argument I've seen you mention. And I don't remember seeing > > convincing arguments against it from anyone else in the thread either. > > Pfff. You're the one

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

2011-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 19, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Oh, I get it, we should throw kFreeBSD out because Marco d'Itri thinks > it's a bad idea? No, but if you believe it to be useful the least you could do is to explain why. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2011-07-19 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 19:48 +, Uoti Urpala wrote: > There was a discussion about whether future Debian would be > based on kFreeBSD, and kFreeBSD failed that on its own merits, not due to any > consideration of systemd (or actually there wasn't much of a discussion, but > that was only because

Bug#634754: ITP: ruby-hikidoc -- text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers

2011-07-19 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-hikidoc Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Kazuhiko * URL or Web page : http://projects.netlab.jp/hikidoc/ * License : BSD-3-clause Description : text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers

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

2011-07-19 Thread Andreas Barth
* Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) [110719 01:36]: > Uoti Urpala writes: > > I know I would personally be a lot happier with a Debian that supports > > systemd functionality than with a Debian that can run on a BSD kernel. > > Well, while we're putting stakes in the ground, I suppose I'll hammer mi

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Peter Samuelson p12n.org> writes: > [Uoti Urpala] > > IMO letting kFreeBSD block a technology like systemd (or even letting > > it have a significant impact on the discussion about whether it's > > desirable to introduce the technology for the main Linux case) would > > only be justifiable if ther

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 > > fact that there currently aren't many users y

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

2011-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
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 > fact that there currently aren't many users yet isn't surprising in that > light. However, as the port matures, it

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. > > > > > > Once you stop taking things as a given there are a

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

2011-07-19 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Uoti Urpala] >> IMO letting kFreeBSD block a technology like systemd (or even letting >> it have a significant impact on the discussion about whether it's >> desirable to introduce the technology for the main Linux case) would >> only be

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

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Uoti Urpala] > IMO letting kFreeBSD block a technology like systemd (or even letting > it have a significant impact on the discussion about whether it's > desirable to introduce the technology for the main Linux case) would > only be justifiable if there were very solid arguments why kFreeBSD > i

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

2011-07-19 Thread brian m. carlson
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:31:59AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | Also, I've installed systemd on my laptop and it logs almost nothing > | to the console ("verbose" on the kernel command line does not help). > > try doing systemd.log_level=debug as documented in the man page? It's hard to acce

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 07/19/2011 03:49 PM, Paul Wise wrote: > I'm imagining that this is a hack that was added before experimental > existed and that dev versions of scribus should go to experimental > now. If I remember right scribus-ng was in development for a lngish time while it was in such a bugfree conditi

Re: Minimal init

2011-07-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> It seems this problem (double fork) is the basement of using cgroup >> under systemd ;) > > I think messing around with cgroups is a ridiculous way to solve this > problem. To be fair, systemd also uses cgroups to reliably kill rogue child processes when stopping a service. This is not unlike

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

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Uoti Urpala writes: > Gergely Nagy balabit.hu> writes: >> Uoti Urpala pp1.inet.fi> writes: >> >> >> Whatever its features, if we have to jump through a large heap of hoops >> >> to get it to work at all, or to make life for maintainers of daemon >> >> packages not a complete nightmare, it's no

Bug#634717: ITP: libfile-keepass-perl -- Interface to KeePass V1 database files

2011-07-19 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * Package name: libfile-keepass-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Paul Seamons * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/File-KeePass/ * License : This module m

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

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > ]] Gergely Nagy > > | FYI, there are upstreams who provide initscripts in their source > | package. systemd is yet another burden on them that they have to > | maintain, and makes their lives miserable. > > You make it sound like systemd requires you to make an extra ef

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
Gergely Nagy balabit.hu> writes: > Uoti Urpala pp1.inet.fi> writes: > > >> Whatever its features, if we have to jump through a large heap of hoops > >> to get it to work at all, or to make life for maintainers of daemon > >> packages not a complete nightmare, it's not likely to become the defaul

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Samuel Thibault writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]"): > Ian Jackson, le Tue 19 Jul 2011 16:18:54 +0100, a écrit : > > I think messing around with cgroups is a ridiculous way to solve this > > problem. The right answer is simply to change the daemons to give > > them

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

2011-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 19 juillet 2011 à 16:36 +0200, Gergely Nagy a écrit : > FYI, there are upstreams who provide initscripts in their source > package. And how many of them comply with the Debian policy without needing to be completely rewritten? Let’s talk about real cases, please. -- .''`. Jossel

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
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. > > > > Once you stop taking things as a given there are a lot more opportunities > > for > > improvement. > > kFreeBSD

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ian Jackson, le Tue 19 Jul 2011 16:55:58 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about > systemd]"): > > Ian Jackson, le Tue 19 Jul 2011 16:18:54 +0100, a écrit : > > > I think messing around with cgroups is a ridiculous way to solve this > > > problem

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bastien ROUCARIES writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about > systemd]"): >> Forking daemon are reparented to init and we do not know if exit is >> genuine or not. > > Right. > >> It seems this problem (double fork) is the basem

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

2011-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Gergely Nagy | FYI, there are upstreams who provide initscripts in their source | package. systemd is yet another burden on them that they have to | maintain, and makes their lives miserable. You make it sound like systemd requires you to make an extra effort to make stuff work. It doesn't.

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ian Jackson, le Tue 19 Jul 2011 16:18:54 +0100, a écrit : > I think messing around with cgroups is a ridiculous way to solve this > problem. The right answer is simply to change the daemons to give > them an option which causes them not to fork. Then you can just have > a single supervision daemo

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

2011-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Wouter Verhelst | It's of course your prerogative to have that opinion, but (as a | maintainer of a source package that ships two initscripts) I disagree | with it. Especially since I doubt that supporting NBD exports with | systemd is going to be possible, at all, given what I know about it.

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Bastien ROUCARIES writes ("Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]"): > Forking daemon are reparented to init and we do not know if exit is > genuine or not. Right. > It seems this problem (double fork) is the basement of using cgroup > under systemd ;) I think messing around w

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] (Marco d'Itri) | I can think about a few (networking-related) features which could make | me want to use a Debian/kOpenBSD, but what is the point of kFreeBSD? Not sure about kFreeBSD, but regular Freebsd's handling of large amounts of swap is much better than Linux'. Linux really doesn't cop

Re: Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: >> Not rocket science about ipc only a loop and two signal to catch: >> - get SIGING: respawn systemd >> - get SIGUSR2: spawn a sulogin shell >> - check if systemd child die, respawn it if needed (rate limited) >> >> All the funky stuff is

Minimal init [was: A few observations about systemd]

2011-07-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> Not rocket science about ipc only a loop and two signal to catch: > - get SIGING: respawn systemd > - get SIGUSR2: spawn a sulogin shell > - check if systemd child die, respawn it if needed (rate limited) > > All the funky stuff is done by a child of init. Hmm If you want to support forking

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 14:00 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): > > What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware > > support. > > What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are > reasons why some u

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

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Uoti Urpala writes: >> Whatever its features, if we have to jump through a large heap of hoops >> to get it to work at all, or to make life for maintainers of daemon >> packages not a complete nightmare, it's not likely to become the default >> in Debian any time soon. > > I think the life of man

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 > > > should be a "project's goal", and how

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread The Fungi
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 03:49:51PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: [...] > The fact that we have not heard from them should be a big enough > clue... I'll throw my hat in the ring on that one--I do in fact run kFreeBSD, and further, I do it within DomU on Debian/squeeze i386 Xen Dom0 hosts (though I ha

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:00:40PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): > > What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware > > support. > > What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are > reasons why

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 19, Ian Jackson wrote: > What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are > reasons why some users prefer the BSD kernel to Linux. Can you cite some? I can think about a few (networking-related) features which could make me want to use a Debian/kOpenBSD, but what is the po

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Wise
I'm imagining that this is a hack that was added before experimental existed and that dev versions of scribus should go to experimental now. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): >> ]] Russell Coker >> | But it does result in a system that doesn't work properly. >> >> Well, yes.  If init crashes, stuff generally don't work that well >> afterwards. :-) > >

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Tollef Fog Heen writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): > ]] Russell Coker > | But it does result in a system that doesn't work properly. > > Well, yes. If init crashes, stuff generally don't work that well > afterwards. :-) That's why its best to have init contain as little code as po

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Ben Hutchings writes ("Re: A few observations about systemd"): > What's more, neither of the 'ports' to other kernels increases hardware > support. What they do provide is healthy competition for Linux. There are reasons why some users prefer the BSD kernel to Linux. Talking as if increased hard

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

2011-07-19 Thread Uoti Urpala
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 > > should be a "project's goal", and how much else you're willing to lose for > > the sake of that goal. > > Debian/

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

2011-07-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> | I'd be more sympathetic to the idea of recoding everything in C if > | the initialiation code lived in separate binaries. > system/ systemd-fsck* systemd-quotacheck* systemd-shutdown* > systemd-vconsole-setup* [...] Interesting. Looking at the code, I hadn't noticed these get compiled into

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

2011-07-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Juliusz Chroboczek | > It's not like boot speed would be the only reason to avoid shell. | | I don't think that avoiding shell implies that all the distribution- | specific initialisation code must be hard-wired in pid 1. I'd be more | sympathetic to the idea of recoding everything in C if t

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

2011-07-19 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
> It's not like boot speed would be the only reason to avoid shell. I don't think that avoiding shell implies that all the distribution- specific initialisation code must be hard-wired in pid 1. I'd be more sympathetic to the idea of recoding everything in C if the initiali- sation code lived in

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:58:41AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Presumably 1.4 is reaching the stable status, so scribus gets 1.4, and > scribus-ng will get 1.5-ish later? So both are essentially the same package right now? I find it rather confusing to have two different names and, at least in

Bug#634657: ITP: jenkins-commons-jelly -- Jenkins fork of Apache Commons Jelly

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-commons-jelly Version : 1.1-jenkins-20110627 * URL : http://github.com/jenkinsci/jelly * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins fork of Apache Commons J

Re: scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Michael Meskes (19/07/2011): > could anyone tell me what the difference between scribus and scribus-ng is? > According to the description scribus-ng is the development branch but scribus > itself is a later rc than -ng. Besides it appears to me that the package(s) > could need a little bit of love

Bug#634656: ITP: maven-hpi-plugin -- Maven2 plugin for building Jenkins plugins

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: maven-hpi-plugin Version : 1.71 * URL : http://jenkins-ci.org/maven-hpi-plugin * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Maven2 plugin for building Jenkins plugins Th

scribus(-ng)?

2011-07-19 Thread Michael Meskes
Hi, could anyone tell me what the difference between scribus and scribus-ng is? According to the description scribus-ng is the development branch but scribus itself is a later rc than -ng. Besides it appears to me that the package(s) could need a little bit of love. Michael -- Michael Meskes Mic

Bug#634655: ITP: jenkins-xstream -- Jenkins fork of Java library to serialize objects to XML and back again

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-xstream Version : 1.3.1-hudson-8 * URL : https://github.com/jenkinsci/xstream * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins fork of Java library to serialize object

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 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

Bug#634652: ITP: jenkins-winstone -- Jenkins branch of Winstone servlet container

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-winstone Version : 0.9.10-jenkins-25 * URL : http://github.com/jenkinsci/winstone * License : CDDL or LGPL-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins branch of Winstone serv

Bug#634644: ITP: jenkins-trilead-ssh2 -- Trilead SSH2 implementation for Java (Jenkins variant)

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-trilead-ssh2 Version : 212-hudson-6 * URL : https://github.com/jenkinsci/trilead-ssh2 * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java( Description : Trilead SSH2 implementation for Java (

Bug#634638: ITP: trilead-putty-extension -- PuTTY key support for Trilead SSH2 library

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: trilead-putty-extension Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Kohsuke Kawaguchi * URL : https://trilead-putty-extension.dev.java.net/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : PuTT

Bug#634634: ITP: jenkins-json -- Jenkins fork of library for transforming Java objects between XML and JSON

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-json Version : 2.1-rev6 * URL : https://github.com/jenkinsci/json-lib * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins fork of library for transforming Java ob

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Sven Hoexter writes: > The question is what should be achieved with d/copyright? > Give just a short overview over the main parts of the package or a complete > overview of the complete package contents? My understanding is, that it should be a complete overview of the source licenses. I do not

Bug#634632: ITP: jenkins-dom4j -- Jenkins variant of the flexible XML framework for Java

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-dom4j Version : 1.6.1-hudson-3 * URL : http://github.com/jenkinsci/dom4j/ * License : DOM4J Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins variant of the flexible XML framework for

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:26:36AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: Hi, > ..and configure scripts have parts of autotools, Makefile.ins contain > code from automake, and even compiled binaries contain stuff that > originates from the compiler. > > I don't think these should be documented in debian/cop

Bug#634631: ITP: jenkins-commons-jexl -- Jenkins fork of the JSTL Expression Language with extensions

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-commons-jexl Version : 1.1-hudson-20090508 * URL : https://github.com/jenkinsci/jexl/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins fork of the JSTL Expressi

Bug#634630: ITP: jenkins-memory-monitor -- Jenkins native integration for monitoring memory usage.

2011-07-19 Thread James Page
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: James Page * Package name: jenkins-memory-monitor Version : 1.6 Upstream Author : Kohsuke Kawaguchi * URL : http://jenkins-ci.org * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description : Jenkins native integration fo

systemd service files as declarative daemon descriptions (Was: A few observations about systemd)

2011-07-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 18.07.2011, 10:49 +0100 schrieb Simon McVittie: > * a tool that takes the same command-line parameters as a sysvinit script > and implements them by parsing and running a systemd unit (which would > result in sysvinit scripts that consist of LSB headers, plus one line > sim

Re: DEP5 Copyright Question

2011-07-19 Thread Gergely Nagy
Nikolaus Rath writes: > My sponsor requested me to add debian/copyright entries for files in the > generated HTML documentation. The documentation is generated by Sphinx, > and Sphinx adds some templates and js libraries which are then covered > (at least that's what I believe) by the Sphinx lice

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-19 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 18 juillet 2011 à 10:49 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit : > I suspect that the shortest path from here to "kFreeBSD can run systemd units" > would be to write one or both of: > > * a tool that takes a large subset of systemd unit (service) syntax as input, > and outputs a sysvinit shell