Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Wed, 02 May 2012, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Not adding to the noise is reducing the noise. And especially telling > people that you do not care about their arguments because you they are > not insiders, which this is from some point of view, is the noise that > makes an discussion in my eye

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Hi all, I think that we are asking the impossible, to be universal, cover a large number of fields, and fit all of this in a single name space witout conflicts. With our current approach, to rename at least one of the program names, we make Debian systems incompatible with outside documentation a

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 3 May 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > All MTA bounce messages are just plain unreadable crap for the average > > human on Earth, I'm afraid. For some of them, it's even worse than > > Vogon poetry. > > IME this is true even after you translate it to the local language and dum

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, May 03, 2012 02:45:06 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-05-02 20:23:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > >On 2012-05-02 15:00:36 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 > > >> > > >> Jon Dowland wrote:

Re: smaller than 0 but not negative (Re: question about "Conflicts:"

2012-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Holger Levsen (02/05/2012): > *grin* > > btw, is the concept of numbers smaller than zero but not negative known/used > anywhere outside of debian/dpkg? Something like that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed_zero Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

smaller than 0 but not negative (Re: question about "Conflicts:"

2012-05-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 30. April 2012, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Conflicts: foo (>= 0), foo (<< 0) > to be exact, since versions smaller than 0 are possible. *grin* btw, is the concept of numbers smaller than zero but not negative known/used anywhere outside of debian/dpkg? cheers, Holger -- T

#508644 Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess (was Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 29. April 2012, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:03:11PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > The 500 packages that would have to change their Depends from "exim4 | > > mta" to something else. > The brokenness of having to have a default package hardcoded in > every virt

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-02 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 05/03/12 02:16, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 02.05.2012 19:05, Martin Wuertele wrote: >> I don't think this is a better example. Actually I think this is an >> example where udev/mdev could launch/stop bluetoothd. > Long running daemons should *not* be started by udev. udev is *not* a > service man

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-02 20:23:41 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >On 2012-05-02 15:00:36 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 > >> Jon Dowland wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > >> >

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
Vincent Lefevre wrote: >On 2012-05-02 15:00:36 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: >> Hello, >> >> On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 >> Jon Dowland wrote: >> >> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: >> > > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! >> >> > If ex

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-05-02 15:00:36 +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 > Jon Dowland wrote: > > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! > > > If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 04:37:31, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Is this the right time to do it? FWIW, de-selecting "standard system" tasksel option (at least when using the netinstall .iso) results in an installation with no MTA.

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 02 May 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote: > (slightly off-topic) > Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > > No, bouncing mail when it can't be properly delivered is much better than > > violating RFCs. > > > > Mail that is bounced with a human readable message describing the real >

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:43:04PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > > There's also http://packages.debian.org/#search_contents which can > search for files listed within packages. > That's where I check. Pat -- ,-. > Pat

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:22:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Maybe we should short-circuit this part of the conversation, since it > doesn't sound like you're horribly interested in agreeing to change the > name of node in the existing package. :) > Actually, despite my vigorous defense of

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Patrick Ouellette writes: > I'm more than a bit disappointed that this will be the second time a ham > radio tool in Debian is forced to use a name the wider Linux ham > community does not use. No one seems to be considering the issues or > complications caused to the ham users. I've heard the

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 05:53:54PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > Just a quick question - is there an easy way to do this? I worry > sometimes that I might be creating a binary name that is already used > somewhere, and thus a potential clash, but it is not obvious to me how > to check. Strictly this appli

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 17:53 +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 23:12 -0400]: > > Of course the #! line is not the issue. The issue is two upstream > > maintainers > > separated by years and miles selected the same generic name for their binary > > file. Compounding the issu

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Wookey > Just a quick question - is there an easy way to do this? Given most names don't explain particularly well what the command does, just use something inspired by pwgen. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-02 Thread Michael Biebl
On 02.05.2012 19:05, Martin Wuertele wrote: > I don't think this is a better example. Actually I think this is an > example where udev/mdev could launch/stop bluetoothd. Long running daemons should *not* be started by udev. udev is *not* a service manager. What udev should do is signal the init sy

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Christian PERRIER
(slightly off-topic) Quoting Russell Coker (russ...@coker.com.au): > No, bouncing mail when it can't be properly delivered is much better than > violating RFCs. > > Mail that is bounced with a human readable message describing the real cause > of the problem can then be re-sent once the proble

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 2 May 2012 17:53:54 +0100 Wookey wrote: > +++ Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 23:12 -0400]: > > file. Compounding the issue, some Debian Maintainer seeking to better the > > project by packaging additional software for the project failed to perform > > "due diligence" in researching if any

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Wookey writes: > Just a quick question - is there an easy way to do this? I worry > sometimes that I might be creating a binary name that is already used > somewhere, and thus a potential clash, but it is not obvious to me how > to check. Strictly this applies to every file in a package, although

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Andreas Metzler
Russell Coker wrote: [...] > When you send 8 bit mail to a host that only supports 7 bit then it will be > corrupted, usually without any notification of what happened - definitely > silent corruption. [...] Have you really seen this happening in this century? Are there really MTAs active in t

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Wookey
+++ Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 23:12 -0400]: > Of course the #! line is not the issue. The issue is two upstream maintainers > separated by years and miles selected the same generic name for their binary > file. Compounding the issue, some Debian Maintainer seeking to better the > project by p

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-02 Thread Martin Wuertele
* Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez [2012-05-01 23:07]: > On 27/04/12 19:33, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Martin Wuertele > > > >> * Josselin Mouette [2012-04-27 09:53]: > >> > >>> Le jeudi 26 avril 2012 à 22:29 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Yes of course, because event-driven init system

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120502 18:06]: > I don't want technical decisions in this project to > only be discussed by people who enjoy the noise. That's why it is cruical to get the noise reduced. If in any discussion there is a DD escalating the flames then there won't be any people with technical argumen

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [120501 18:18]: >> David Bremner writes: >>> "Bernhard R. Link" writes: My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors is thus: Please refrai

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012, Aron Xu wrote: >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: >> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >> Is this the right time to do it? >> > No.  Cron needs some

Bug#671224: ITP: saint -- Significance Analysis of INTeractome

2012-05-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: saint Version : 2.3.3 Upstream Author : Hyung Won Choi * URL : http://saint-apms.sourceforge.net/Main.html * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : Significance Analysis of

Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)

2012-05-02 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-05-02, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I'm also not seeing GNOME applications as file type handlers in > Akregator (KDE application). So I'm not sure this is even 'just' a > problem for text-mode applications. I just tried to install 'gedit' to test it, and I can nicely now set gedit as a handler

Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)

2012-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:30 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I just would like to warm up this thread a bit because I wonder if a > solution would be found in time for Wheezy release. It seems nobody > really seems to care about those suggested scripts and we are breaking a > certain amount

Re: The future of non-dependency-based boot

2012-05-02 Thread James Cloos
> "PR" == Petter Reinholdtsen writes: PR> You do not have to edit the init.d files themselves to override PR> their dependencies, and risk them going away during upgrades. I PR> created the possibility for the system administrator to insert PR> overrides in /etc/insserv/overrides/ for just t

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 19:23 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. > > > > Can you expand on "silently corrupted", here? Is that when you re-

Bug#671209: ITP: libmoosex-role-timer-perl -- Role for measuring elapsed time with Time::HiRes

2012-05-02 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org, m...@cpan.org * Package name: libmoosex-role-timer-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Michael Langner (m...@cpan.org) * URL : http://

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-05-02 14:49:09 +0200 (+0200), Bernhard R. Link wrote: > On the other hand, if renaming both of them is the only possible > outcome if both parties cannot agree, it makes it more likely both > sides will actually be willing to discuss the matter, instead of > just issuing demands, hoping the

console-tools removal from sid / wheezy?

2012-05-02 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Ok, might we proceed with the console-tools removal for wheezy? Bugs have been filed against the following packages: #645937 goto-fai #671079 hotkey-setup #671081 hibernate #671082 gcpegg to move to kbd rather than console-tools. regards Alastair On 2011-10-19 16:37, Sven Joachim wrote: >

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Bjørn Mork
Josselin Mouette writes: > Is this the right time to do it? Wasn't this just recently discussed? Just replay the thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/10/msg00227.html Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)

2012-05-02 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I just would like to warm up this thread a bit because I wonder if a solution would be found in time for Wheezy release. It seems nobody really seems to care about those suggested scripts and we are breaking a certain amount of programs if mailcap entries are dropped without any replacement.

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Jérémy Lal
On 02/05/2012 14:49, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Russ Allbery [120501 19:28]: >> I have to admit that I'm tempted to change Policy from "if there's no >> consensus, rename both of them" to "if there's no consensus, try harder to >> reach a consensus, and the technical committee decides in last res

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! > If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced 8BITMIME > in the EHLO response, it will relay that

Re: Making -devel discussions more viable

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120501 18:18]: > David Bremner writes: > > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > >> My suggestion to everyone feeling the need to tell anyone on a public > >> mailing list that they should shut up because they are no contributors > >> is thus: Please refrain from any more posts to this

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-05-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120501 19:28]: > I have to admit that I'm tempted to change Policy from "if there's no > consensus, rename both of them" to "if there's no consensus, try harder to > reach a consensus, and the technical committee decides in last resort." > > Most of the time, renaming both of them

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > It would be possible for a DKIM verification program to re-encode 7bit > > messages to 8bit for a second attempt at verification. But if a DKIM > > milter author was going to do tricky things then a better first option > > would be to try removing an

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 02 May 2012, Aron Xu wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Is this the right time to do it? > > No.  Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify about > > failures, etc,

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, May 02, 2012 07:23:13 PM Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. > > > > Can you expand on "silently corrupted", here? Is that when you

Bug#671180: RFP: libnginx-perl -- Nginx::Perl - full-featured perl support for nginx

2012-05-02 Thread Roman V. Nikolaev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-p...@lists.debian.org Package name: libnginx-perl Version: 1.2.0.4 Upstream Author: Alexandr Gomoliako URL: http://search.cpan.org/~zzz/Nginx-Perl-1.2.0.4/src/http/modules/perl/Perl.pm

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. > > Can you expand on "silently corrupted", here? Is that when you re-encode > the mail and send it on as 7-bit, or when you leave it al

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Is this the right time to do it? > > No.  Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify about > failures, etc, etc. > > On the other hand, going from a fu

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:37:31AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Is this the right time to do it? > > No. Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify about > failures, etc, etc. Indeed, some form of tight

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 07:05:14PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Having mail be silently corrupted is not acceptable. Can you expand on "silently corrupted", here? Is that when you re-encode the mail and send it on as 7-bit, or when you leave it alone and send it as 8 bit to a host that doesn't ad

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: > No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced 8BITMIME in the EHLO response, it will relay that message verbatim to other hosts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 2 May 2012, Riku Voipio wrote: > It would be a RFC violation to just pass 8bit mails to servers not > advertizing 8bitmime. It would be rfc compatible to the sending server > to bounce instead of qp-converting 8bit mails, but that would arguably > be even worse. No, bouncing mail when it

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-05-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 29 avril 2012 à 18:45 +0100, Roger Leigh a écrit : > As a > trivial example: systemd creates user session information in > /run/user/$user . I brought up with lennart the fact that this would > only permit one session per user. He rejected out of hand the fact > that more than one se

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Riku Voipio
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:18:07PM +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? It's not just postfix, it's at least courier and sendmail and various propiertary MTA's do conversions when encountering default configured exims. It would be a RFC violation to just pass 8b

Bug#671154: ITP: lhasa -- lha archive decompressor

2012-05-02 Thread Jon Dowland
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jon Dowland * Package name: lhasa Version : 0.0.4 Upstream Author : Simon Howard * URL : http://fragglet.github.com/lhasa/ * License : ISC Programming Lang: C Description : lha archive decompressor Lhasa is a li

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Is this the right time to do it? No. Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify about failures, etc, etc. On the other hand, going from a full blown MTA like exim to something like ssmtp or dma¹ would be a

Re: Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Aron Xu
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Is this the right time to do it? > Not sure whether it's the right time, but I'm sure it's something I've been waiting for quite some time. :-) -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wi

Removing the MTA from the default install

2012-05-02 Thread Josselin Mouette
Is this the right time to do it? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- 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/1335945757.4277.215.camel@pi030757