Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 25/06/2012 19:35, Aron Xu a écrit : > Hi, > > Regarding your question, it is recommended to do as follow during freeze: > > unstable: any version that you would like to hit testing soon, so it's > the version that Release Team agreed (or likely) to unblock it. unstable would also works for ne

Is anybody intersted in packaging Selectricity ? (Was: Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland)

2012-06-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:03:13PM +0100, Philip Ashmore a écrit : > Hi there. > > I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland". Hi, I would like to advertise Selectricity, which is Free software. http://selectricity.org/ It is not designed with the same goals

Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I've got a Samsung NP-RF711-S07UK laptop - it's so new that Samsungs own website doesn't list it. Here's a link with product specs: http://www.elaraonline.co.uk/productdetail.aspx?productcode=ECE2391461 Anyway, it's got back-light+hot-keys+fan control issues. It turns out that even

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

2012-06-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:03:34 shirish शिरीष wrote: > > More details, comparison to other approaches, and more information can > > be found at: > > http://http.debian.net/ > > I *think* it should be also beneficial for jigdo stuff as well. Yes. Not sure how the downloader used by jigdo ha

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2012-06-25 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, John David Anglin wrote: > >>Since there is no hppa port any longer, shouldn't we close all > >>hppa-specific bug reports? > >>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?status=open;include=subject%3Ahppa > >why? it's still a port. > I am still building unstable packages and

Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland, Cork alternative

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I got into a delete-those-emails frenzy earlier and assumed I could read them on Debians mailing list. This is true only if someone doesn't mail me personally, which I now realise happened wrt. an email suggesting it be hosted in Cork. Please send the email to me or the list again -

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2012-06-25 Thread John David Anglin
On 25-Jun-12, at 7:13 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: On 25.06.2012 19:34, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: Since there is no hppa port any longer, shouldn't we close all hppa-specific bug reports? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?status=open;include=subject%3Ahppa why? it's still a port.

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2012-06-25 Thread Matthias Klose
On 25.06.2012 19:34, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Since there is no hppa port any longer, shouldn't we close all > hppa-specific bug reports? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?status=open;include=subject%3Ahppa why? it's still a port. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: WHO is reopening this - Tested and FIXED!!!

2012-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Matthew, On Montag, 25. Juni 2012, Matthew Grant wrote: > Message #32 received at fakecontrol@fakecontrolmessage (full text, mbox): > > From: Debbugs Internal Request > To: internal_cont...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Internal Control > Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:42:08 + > # A New Hope > #

My own bad - Re: WHO is reopening this - Tested and FIXED!!!

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Grant
OK, finally followed things. My own bad... IMHO, I find Debian bug reports are bit confusing to follow. Thank you for being patient with me. Matthew Grant On 26/06/12 10:41, Matthew Grant wrote: > This is from the maintainer of the racoon and ipsec-tools package! > > Tested on linux kernel 3.

Re: Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 25/06/12 23:07, Mika Pflüger wrote: Hi, Am Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:03:13 +0100 schrieb Philip Ashmore: Hi there. I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland". I've pencilled the weekends in July initially, unless there are compelling reasons for a different mont

WHO is reopening this - Tested and FIXED!!!

2012-06-25 Thread Matthew Grant
This is from the maintainer of the racoon and ipsec-tools package! Tested on linux kernel 3.2 in testing/unstable, racoon 0.8.0-9+ sha384 and sha512 hmac and authentication ARE WORKING Please do not reopen bugs with no EMAIL as to WHY!!! I have not RECEIVED any INFORMATION about this. THI

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 25/06/12 16:03, Martín Ferrari wrote: Hi Phillip, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix bugs. Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in Dublin, Ireland at a mutuall

Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland

2012-06-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
Hi there. I would like to invite you to the Doodle poll "Debian BSP, Dublin, Ireland". I've pencilled the weekends in July initially, unless there are compelling reasons for a different month. I haven't decided on a location yet as it is subject to sponsorship and/or space donation. Please

Use of the "general" and "base" packages (Re: general: after about 1 month...)

2012-06-25 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Holger, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Sonntag, 24. Juni 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> retitle 678519 after about a month, routing gets wedged >> # not a general problem affecting a large portion of the archive >> reassign 678519 base > > reassigning bugs from general to base is pretty useless, a

Re: Bug#678519: general: after about 1 month of uptime, routing of IPv6 packets is no longer possible, and IPv4 routing becomes slow and unpredictable. Rebooting brings all functionality back, and bac

2012-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 25. Juni 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Basically the base-pseudo package is pretty useless as well, all it's > > (current) bugs should probabyl be carefully assigned to the kernel, for > > #678519 I just wasnt sure yet if its really a kernel or user > > configuration problem... > P

Re: Bug#678519: general: after about 1 month of uptime, routing of IPv6 packets is no longer possible, and IPv4 routing becomes slow and unpredictable. Rebooting brings all functionality back, and bac

2012-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:23:58PM -0600, Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > On Sonntag, 24. Juni 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > retitle 678519 after about a month, routing gets wedged > > # not a general problem affecting a large portion of the archive > > reassign 678519 base > > reassig

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > > None of those provide well-working multi-user video chats, which was > > what the discussion started with. > > I don't agree. Have you ever tried BBB or SIP video? Yes, I've used both BBB and SIP professionally. They don't work particularly well across the wide internet.

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ben Hutchings [120625 19:21]: > GNU make's implicit rules use CPPFLAGS. If other build systems or > overriden rules don't use it, it's a bug. This can of course be > worked around in debian/rules. I'd not call it a bug. It's just some stranger behavior. Not more strange than not using make bu

video archive (Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 24. Juni 2012, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > snippets on YouTube would help with publicity here. feel free to upload Debian videos to youtube, if the licence allows so. this has been done several times already... > Please discuss that with the Debian video team. But don't be sur

Bug#679014: ITP: librdf-crypt-perl -- semantic cryptography

2012-06-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard * Package name: librdf-crypt-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/RDF-Crypt * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description :

Re: Bug#678519: general: after about 1 month of uptime, routing of IPv6 packets is no longer possible, and IPv4 routing becomes slow and unpredictable. Rebooting brings all functionality back, and bac

2012-06-25 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Jonathan, On Sonntag, 24. Juni 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > retitle 678519 after about a month, routing gets wedged > # not a general problem affecting a large portion of the archive > reassign 678519 base reassigning bugs from general to base is pretty useless, as both pseudo- packages bugs

Re: "could not perform immediate configuration"

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 juin 2012 14:28 CEST, Tanguy Ortolo  : >> The change between Wheezy and Squeeze is that roundcube-sqlite package >> has been dropped. > > Any specific reason for that? Looking at the upstream website, they do > not seem to have dropped SQLite compatibility… PHP doesn't have support for SQLi

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Aron Xu
Hi, Regarding your question, it is recommended to do as follow during freeze: unstable: any version that you would like to hit testing soon, so it's the version that Release Team agreed (or likely) to unblock it. experimental: any version that won't make its way to unstable, including usual expe

Re: alpha and hppa removal from unstable/experimental

2012-06-25 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Since there is no hppa port any longer, shouldn't we close all hppa-specific bug reports? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?status=open;include=subject%3Ahppa -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College, 419 Moore H

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 06:55:53PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/24 Guillem Jover wrote: > > >> Why? Just to have it autotools-compatible? If I was writing a custom > >> build system I would be thinking about using -Wp option, since that's > >> exactly why it's there for — to pass some options to t

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2012 07:38 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Thomas Goirand > > >> For the booking of tickets, (public system) car software, etc., we >> have no choice. >> > Sure we have, you can always use a bike or your feet or a sailboat. > What does this has to do with using Hangout??? Come

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/25/2012 06:45 PM, YunQiang Su wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 06/25/2012 09:49 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: >>> On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote: 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it manually. >>> >>> This is usu

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Martín Ferrari (martin.ferr...@gmail.com): > Have you thought of a place, or talked with anybody about that? I'm > thinking the TOG might be a good place. Isn't there some random company over there that actually happens to employ several DDs (and might be responsible for the sudden incre

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread YunQiang Su
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 06/25/2012 09:49 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: >> On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote: >>> 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it >>> manually. >> >> This is usually the right answer: if version 1.0 is intended t

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 02:57:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > But I still think this would be a good idea: > > > Perhaps it would be better to have the wiki page point to a suitable > > gitweb page ? This one perhaps: > > > > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=autopkgtest/autopkgtest.gi

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Serge
2012/6/24 Guillem Jover wrote: >> Why? Just to have it autotools-compatible? If I was writing a custom >> build system I would be thinking about using -Wp option, since that's >> exactly why it's there for — to pass some options to the preprocessor >> (or, being honest, I would ignore CPPFLAGS unl

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 07:00:56 +0100 Philip Ashmore wrote: > It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to > fix bugs. > > Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere > in Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. You could do an onl

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Martín Ferrari
Hi Phillip, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Philip Ashmore wrote: > It's come to my attention that bug squashing parties are _the_ way to fix > bugs. > > Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in > Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. That is a g

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:59:30PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: > Le 25-06-2012, à 14:47:58 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : > > > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: > > > I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh an

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I am neutral about discussion on if one more WM should be uploaded or not. I am concerned about this package description of ITP and I wish it is improved if it is uploaded to Debian. On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Mickaël Raybaud-Roig wrote: ... > > So WMFS has the following fea

Bug#678980: ITP: ldap-git-backup -- Back up LDAP database in an Git repository

2012-06-25 Thread Elmar S. Heeb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Elmar S. Heeb" * Package name: ldap-git-backup Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Elmar S. Heeb * URL : https://github.com/elmar/ldap-git-backup * License : GPLv3+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Back up LDAP

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Steve R. Petruzzello
Le 25-06-2012, à 14:47:58 +0100, Roger Leigh (rle...@codelibre.net) a écrit : > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: > > I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are > > not. [...] All except console-screen.sh, hwclock.sh and keymap.

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field."): > Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features > field."): > > Indeed, sorry about that. I tried to merge the changes ~30 mins ago, but > > I first need to put my hands on the current Git

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/12 14:47, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: >> PS: Is there a way to list all packages putting a file in /etc/init.d/? > > dpkg -S $(ls -1 /etc/init.d/*) Or if you want the complete set, not just those you have installed, install

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Roger Leigh
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: > I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are > not. [...] All except console-screen.sh, hwclock.sh and keymap.sh are from > the initscripts package. > > So 1) nowhere is .sh suffixing mentioned

Re: Dublin, Ireland bug squashing party

2012-06-25 Thread Jonathan McCrohan
Hi Philip, On 25 June 2012 07:00, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Not to be seen as uncool, I'm proposing a bug squashing party somewhere in > Dublin, Ireland at a mutually agreed date and time. I'm based in Dublin, Ireland, as are a handful of DDs. I don't think there has been an Irish BSP event before

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field."): > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:15:56PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > Apparently http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8/ is not being kept > > up-to-date. :| > > Indeed, sorry about that. I tried to merge the changes ~30 m

Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Ian Jackson , 2012-06-25, 13:44: You might be interested in my own minimalistic DEP-8 test runner: https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/debian-misc/src/tip/sadt Oooh, how exciting, another implementation :-). On this subject, I ought to point out that (thinking I had the only implementation) I fixed

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 03:15:56PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > | autopkgtest (2.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium > | > | * Incompatible test declaration spec changes: > | - no-build-needed is now the default; build-needed is a Restriction > |that tests which need it have to declare. > >

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy , 2012-06-23, 12:33: reading DEP 8's appendix, I wonder about the necessity to keep separate Restrictions and Features fields. For instance, the no-build-needed Feature could also be a needs-build restriction. I noticed this only today: | autopkgtest (2.0.0) unstable; urgency

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
Svante Signell kirjoitti: >On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:19 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: >> Which wm does that? I know it isn't gnome-shell at least, as I've >been >> using it quite successfully without nm installed. > >Have you tried to use evolution without NM? Evolution is not, so far as

Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?"): > Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual > machine ?"): > > You might be interested in my own minimalistic DEP-8 test runner: > > https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/debian-misc/

Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?"): > You might be interested in my own minimalistic DEP-8 test runner: > https://bitbucket.org/jwilk/debian-misc/src/tip/sadt Oooh, how exciting, another implementation :-). Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: [DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field.

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("[DEP 8] About the Restrictions and Features field."): > reading DEP 8's appendix, I wonder about the necessity to keep separate > Restrictions and Features fields. For instance, the no-build-needed Feature > could also be a needs-build restriction. Perhaps the specificatio

Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Charles Plessy , 2012-06-22, 17:46: adt-run needs a virtual machine. I know that some developers have some workarounds, but couldn't autopkgtest also support running tests on the local system? This would be tremendously useful when the tests can be contained in the binary packages, as it woul

Re: "could not perform immediate configuration"

2012-06-25 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Vincent Bernat, 2012-06-23 12:55+0200: > The change between Wheezy and Squeeze is that roundcube-sqlite package > has been dropped. Any specific reason for that? Looking at the upstream website, they do not seem to have dropped SQLite compatibility… -- ,--. : /` ) Tanguy Ortolo | `-'Deb

[DEP 8] Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("[DEP 8] Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?"): > For networking, how about a "needs-networking" restriction ? I'm definitely in general in favour of expanding the set of restrictions etc. We need to be sure that the semantics are clear though

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Steve R. Petruzzello, 2012-06-25 13:51+0200: > the Debian Policy Manuel, and one can read (subsection 9.3.2 Writing the > scripts) that "These scripts should be named /etc/init.d/package". I failed to > find another reference to script naming in the rest of the document. > > So […] 2) some scripts

Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?

2012-06-25 Thread Ian Jackson
Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Is it possible to run autopkgtest without a virtual machine ?"): > I guess that the next step is to let autopkgtest run as a user > (http://bugs.debian.org/648148), make it easier to invoke > (adt-virt-null is not mentionned in the manual page, and even with > --no-buil

Re: File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 01:51:36PM +0200, Steve R. Petruzzello wrote: || I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some || are not. On my sytem: [...] || So 1) nowhere is .sh suffixing mentioned and 2) some scripts are not named || by their package's name (hwclock.s

File naming of scripts in /etc/init.d

2012-06-25 Thread Steve R. Petruzzello
Hi, I noticed that some scripts in /etc/init.d/ are suffixed by .sh and some are not. On my sytem: host:/etc/init.d# ls -1 *.sh bootmisc.sh checkfs.sh checkroot.sh console-screen.sh hostname.sh hwclock.sh keymap.sh mountall-bootclean.sh mountall.sh mountdevsubfs.sh mountkernfs.sh mountnfs-bootcl

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > For the booking of tickets, (public system) car software, etc., we > have no choice. Sure we have, you can always use a bike or your feet or a sailboat. > But for being connected together, we do: > - IRC > - Jabber > - Mumble > - BBB (though you need the non-free flash play

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Neil Williams > Popcon indicates almost nothing - least of all popularity. The > weaknesses of popcon for archive-related questions is well documented. > It might give a hint but it is *not* a reliable indicator. While it's not perfect, I'm not aware of any better tool we have. Relying on hea

Re: Introducing http.debian.net, Debian's mirrors redirector

2012-06-25 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:55:56PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > Will also try to find a way to better deal with such cases. Maybe get the continent from the IANA to RIR allocation? Kind regards Philipp Kern signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Proprietary software that's hard to avoid.

2012-06-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Thomas Goirand [2012-06-25 05:12 +0800]: > On 06/21/2012 10:09 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > For the booking of tickets, (public system) car software, etc., we > have no choice. Actually you can run your car on free software (since 2011), although it's definately still at the 'enthusiast' leve

Re: Bug#678920: ITP: libzapojit -- library for accessing SkyDrive and Hotmail

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:36:20 -0400 Jeremy Bicha wrote: > * Package name: libzapojit What a funny name, hehe :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 08:19 +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > > Adam Borowski kirjoitti: > > >Sure, let's start removals with ones that hard-depend on things a > >window > >manager shouldn't touch, like network-manager. Yes, why not! > Which wm does that? I know it isn't gnome-shell at l

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:36:13 +0100 Neil Williams wrote: > If it can be justified. That's what the objective comparison would > need to demonstrate. That's an established pattern in Debian - if > someone wants to add something which is the same as something else, > there should be a good r

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: >> > I've read that some SSDs really *dislike* the way Linux does TRIM >> > batching (or doesn't :p), so yes, it may well be that on most SSDs >> > regular fstrim will do

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Steve Langasek writes: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 03:57:29PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> > Release notes are meant to be read once, not every time you upgrade a >> > system. Having a debconf note once might be appropriate. The second >> > time, you'll go "right, I've seen that before". The thi

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 06/25/2012 09:49 AM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote: >> 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it manually. > > This is usually the right answer: if version 1.0 is intended to go in > the next Debian release, it should get as much testing

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-25 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Wouter Verhelst writes: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 09:54:22PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:43:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> >Meanwhile, you've got a non-FHS directory on your system that is of no >> >immediate use. >> >> Your later suggested /store as a user /

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-25 Thread Mickaël Raybaud-Roig
Hello, First, thank to everyone for having responded. I've read the list of window managers in Thomas Koch's email, and, as said Serge, there are only a few tiling window managers in this list: - Awesome requires programming skills - Bluetile is for GNOME and there is no taskbar and no systra

Bug#678938: ITP: libpwquality -- library for password generation and password quality checking

2012-06-25 Thread Iain Lane
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Iain Lane * Package name: libpwquality Version : 1.1.1 Upstream Author : Copyright (c) 1996 Cristian Gafton Copyright (c) 2011 Red Hat, Inc Copyright (c) 2011 Tomas Mraz Copyright

Re: Lintian warning: hardening-no-fortify-functions & version numbering

2012-06-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [120624 23:13]: > When integrating with a build system that uses only one variable for > compilation flags, just pass the concatenation of CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS into > it. This is trivially done in debian/rules without modifying the upstream > source. Build systems not doing CPPFLAG

Re: Bug#678815: ITP: wmfs -- Window Manager From Scratch

2012-06-25 Thread Serge
2012/6/24 Thomas Koch wrote: >> Package: wnpp >> Severity: wishlist >> Owner: "Mickaël Raybaud-Roig" >> >> * Package name: wmfs >> Version : 2~beta201206 >> Upstream Author : Martin Duquesnoy >> * URL : http://wmfs.info >> * License : BSD >> Programming Lang

Re: Best Practices on testing-proposed-updates vs unstable vs experimental after testing freeze

2012-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/12 06:07, YunQiang Su wrote: > 1. upload 2.0 to experimental, and unstable users should install it manually. This is usually the right answer: if version 1.0 is intended to go in the next Debian release, it should get as much testing as possible, which means it should be the default for u

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 08:36:13PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:42:33 +0200 > Arno Töll wrote: > > > On 24.06.2012 19:51, Neil Williams wrote: > > > Whatever happens, there is no place for yet another duplicate of > > > packages which already have multiple duplicates in th