Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Tino Keitel
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 22:44:55 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: [...] > Please don't get me wrong: I like the ideas behind systemd, but I need > some more input to decide whether it's actually as flexible as an init > script. IMHO the flexibility of init scripts was often abused to do things which sho

Bug#635310: ITP: libplack-middleware-session-perl -- Plack middleware component for session management.

2011-07-24 Thread Dave Walker (Daviey)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dave Walker (Daviey)" * Package name: libplack-middleware-session-perl Version : 0.14 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa , Stevan Little * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plack-Middleware-Session/ * License : Artis

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] 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 have trivially done in shell scripts for years in C. Writing | flawless C isn't exactly easy either[1], and even

Bug#635309: ITP: libirc-formatting-html-perl -- Perl module to convert between HTML and IRC formatting.

2011-07-24 Thread Dave Walker (Daviey)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dave Walker (Daviey)" * Package name: libirc-formatting-html-perl Version : 0.29 Upstream Author : Lee Aylward * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/IRC-Formatting-HTML/ * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang:

Bug#635307: ITP: alice -- App::Alice - IRC client that is viewed in the web browser.

2011-07-24 Thread Dave Walker (Daviey)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Dave Walker (Daviey)" * Package name: alice Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Lee Aylward * URL : https://github.com/leedo/alice * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl & HTML/CSS Description : App:

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Simon McVittie
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 called 'remove the *** symlink'. If you remove them, they'll be recreated by the next upgrade; the right w

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Iustin Pop writes: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:17:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I don't get that impression. Rather, I think both systemd and upstart >> want to significantly reduce the involvement of shell scripts in the >> boot process for the same reason that I'd love to have the time t

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 01:17:50PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > > No. systemd wants to throw out init scripts, because they are shell > > scripts, and Shell Scripts Are Bad!!!1!! oh noes. > > I don't get that impression. Rather, I think both systemd and upstart > wan

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. > >They do not make *any*

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > No. systemd wants to throw out init scripts, because they are shell > scripts, and Shell Scripts Are Bad!!!1!! oh noes. I don't get that impression. Rather, I think both systemd and upstart want to significantly reduce the involvement of shell scripts in the boot proce

Re: A few observations about systemd

2011-07-24 Thread Stephan Seitz
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. They do not make *any* sense, even init.d has a documented (and what's They do in packages th

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 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

Bug#638285: RFP: chan-datacard -- Asterisk PBX channel driver for Huawei UMTS cards

2011-07-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: chan-datacard Version : SVN snapshot (r187) Upstream Author : Artem Makhutov , Dmitry Vagin * URL : http://forge.asterisk.org/gf/project/chan_datacard/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang:

Bug#635283: ITP: openbgpd -- OpenBSD BGP routing daemon

2011-07-24 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jérémy Bobbio User: debian-...@lists.debian.org Usertags: kfreebsd * Package name: openbgpd Version : 4.6+port4.9.20110612 Upstream Author : Henning Brauer * URL : http://www.openbgpd.org/ * License : BSD Programming L

Re: anyone interested in adopting ICU?

2011-07-24 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Please reply to me directly (or CC me on replies) as I am not currently subscribed to debian-devel. Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Jay Berkenbilt schrieb: >> >> I'm looking for someone who might like to take over the icu package. >> This is ICU4C (C/C++), not to be confused with ICU4J (Java), whic

Bug#635253: ITP: php-crypt-blowfish -- Allows for quick two-way blowfish encryption without requiring the MCrypt PHP extension

2011-07-24 Thread Mathieu Parent
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mathieu Parent * Package name: php-crypt-blowfish Version : 1.0.1 or 1.1.0~RC2 Upstream Author : Philippe Jausions , Matthew Fonda * URL : http://pear.php.net/package/Crypt_Blowfish/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: P

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

2011-07-24 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [110724 03:23]: > > I, personally, consider all of those warnings bugs. Well, unused > > variables aren't problems per se, but often can give good hints where > > there *might* be some bug. > > Oh, sure, I agree. But sometimes it's not a good idea to immediately > escalate a whole

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

2011-07-24 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Adam Borowski wrote: > Another thing is, Arora is dead upstream and no one stepped in to revive it. shirish's mai to debian-devel () reminded me that xxxterm seems to be a possible replacement for Arora which ssems to be also quite lean for a WebKit based browser. BTW: dillo 3 is now in the

Re: Writing to /etc/ from a "privileged" UI

2011-07-24 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:15:48PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:54:16PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:05:40PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > > Not at the same time, but someone might allow a user of a laptop to > > > access their WLAN, b