Possible release note for systems running PHP through CGI.

2012-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear release team and developer community, due to changes in the mime-support package, upgrade of systems serving PHP websites through CGI will not be automatic. There is http://bugs.debian.org/674089 (critical) where the issue is discussed, and I would like to reassign it to the release notes.

Re: Allowing multi-arch specs in depends line?

2012-08-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 03:09:46PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote: > I prepared a package for BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu) with all the > dependencies for owners of CUDA-savvy NVidia cards to help installing the > libraries. Since many scientific applications with BOINC only have 32bit > binari

Re: Request for testing pre-release of Systemd to SysVinit converter

2012-08-18 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Akhil! On 18.08.2012 15:41, akhil vij wrote: > I'm Akhil Vij, a Summer of Code 2012 student. I've been working on building > a tool for generating SysV init script from systemd > configuration(*.service) files. I will kindly request you to try the tool > and share your valuable feedback. Are t

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Pau Garcia i Quiles , 2012-08-17, 13:39: > >>> 3) Make a new source package containing every jQuery version existing in >>> the wild, then build depend on that. >> >> FTP Masters do not like that solution. > > Interesting. Do you have any evid

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:44:44AM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : > On 12-08-18 at 10:19pm, Andreas Tille wrote: > > 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains > > a space separated list of regular expressions. > > The deletion process will loop over every expression >

Re: Misc Developer News (#30)

2012-08-18 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Vincent Danjean wrote: > Hi, > > Le 18/08/2012 12:47, Paul Wise a écrit : >> Control Commands at sub...@bugs.debian.org time >> --- >> >> You can now use control commands at sub...@bugs.debian.org time in the >> pseud

Re: Misc Developer News (#30)

2012-08-18 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Le 18/08/2012 12:47, Paul Wise a écrit : > Control Commands at sub...@bugs.debian.org time > --- > > You can now use control commands at sub...@bugs.debian.org time in the > pseudo-headers. Does this mean that it will be possible to improve r

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-08-18 at 10:19pm, Andreas Tille wrote: > 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains > a space separated list of regular expressions. > The deletion process will loop over every expression > > rm -rf ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/ Copyright file format emplicitly emphas

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-18 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 22:19:22 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > 2. There was one vote from Gregor Hermann to use the --repack option > of uscan. I personally admit that I do not fully agree with > Gregor that this means changing the semantics of an existing option. > We are just repackagi

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Aron Xu wrote: > For yourself, they might be toy ports, but please don't speak on > behalf of others from time to time when nobody authorized you to do > so. I am not, but I understand that arguing about this is much easier than arguing that incomplete ports used by a few dozen people

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Marc Haber wrote: > >Anything that uses IPv6 and cannot deal with dynamic changes on the host > >addresses is critically broken. > That includes bind, radvd and apache, and, IIRC, sshd. BIND definitely looks for new IP addresses: options { interface-interval N; } I think that radvd

Re: Enabling uupdate to simply remove files from upstream source (Was: Minified javascript files)

2012-08-18 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, trying to summarise suggested changes for the proposal: 1. The new field Files-Excluded in debian/copyright contains a space separated list of regular expressions. The deletion process will loop over every expression rm -rf ${MAIN_SOURCE_DIR}/ An example copyright file wo

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 18 août 2012 19:46 CEST, "Bernhard R. Link"  : >> That way, there's no need to strip unused RFC, minified javascript, Flash >> files, >> PDF without sources, etc. > > Striping them away is only the forth best solution. There are some better > solutions like: > > - make upstream include the sou

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Aron Xu
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Aug 18, Marc Haber wrote: > >> Because Debian prides itself in being Universal regarding ports and >> architectures. > Does it? Who said so? > But even if this were true, it does not automatically justify dumbing > down the OS which people

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Pau Garcia i Quiles , 2012-08-17, 13:39: 3) Make a new source package containing every jQuery version existing in the wild, then build depend on that. FTP Masters do not like that solution. Interesting. Do you have any evidence for that? -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-de

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Marc Haber wrote: > Because Debian prides itself in being Universal regarding ports and > architectures. Does it? Who said so? But even if this were true, it does not automatically justify dumbing down the OS which people in the real world use for the sake of toy ports. -- ciao, Ma

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Raphael Hertzog [120817 14:04]: > That way, there's no need to strip unused RFC, minified javascript, Flash > files, > PDF without sources, etc. Striping them away is only the forth best solution. There are some better solutions like: - make upstream include the sources - include the sources

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 06:31:08PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:10:34 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > >Anything that uses IPv6 and cannot deal with dynamic changes on the host > >addresses is critically broken. > That includes bind, radvd and apache, and, IIRC, sshd. bind

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:10:34 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Marc Haber wrote: >> This is not always easy. For example, IPv6 isn't ready when ifup > >It is ready enough: it is activated on all interfaces where it should be >activated. > >Anything that uses IPv6 and

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Aug 2012, Marc Haber wrote: > This is not always easy. For example, IPv6 isn't ready when ifup It is ready enough: it is activated on all interfaces where it should be activated. Anything that uses IPv6 and cannot deal with dynamic changes on the host addresses is critically broken. -

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:50:43 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Le jeudi 09 août 2012 à 23:53 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez a >écrit : >> What about Debian kFreeBSD and Hurd? AFAIK systemd needs a linux kernel to >> work. > >Please explain again why we should cripple the Linux port for the sake

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:35:38 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 12:35:09AM +0200, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> Would it help to have the knowledge that, when the init script terminates, >> the >> service is running and ready instead of just running? > >This is already what's expec

Bug#685234: ITP: libjpam-java -- JPAM permits the use of PAM authentication facilities by Java

2012-08-18 Thread Thomas Koch
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Koch -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: libjpam-java Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Greg Luck * URL : http://jpam.sourceforge.net * License : Apache 2.0 Programming Lang: Java De

Request for testing pre-release of Systemd to SysVinit converter

2012-08-18 Thread akhil vij
Hello all, I'm Akhil Vij, a Summer of Code 2012 student. I've been working on building a tool for generating SysV init script from systemd configuration(*.service) files. I will kindly request you to try the tool and share your valuable feedback. The project is hosted on github. https://github.co

Allowing multi-arch specs in depends line?

2012-08-18 Thread Steffen Möller
Hello, I prepared a package for BOINC (http://boinc.berkeley.edu) with all the dependencies for owners of CUDA-savvy NVidia cards to help installing the libraries. Since many scientific applications with BOINC only have 32bit binaries, there are extra dependencies for the amd64 platform on the r

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:43:51PM +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:03:23PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > > So yes, we have the problem for precompiled windows DLLs in a source > > > package. > > > > Interesting, that issue seems rather common. Maybe a lintian che

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-18 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 23:48:32 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 07:50:39PM +, Sam Morris wrote: > > tcltrf (source) > > * win/msvcrt.dll > > > > This is part of Windows. I don't expect Debian has been granted > > permission to distribute it. :) > > It's the run-time lib