Re: using upstart in Debian

2013-05-24 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Dmitrijs Ledkovs writes: >> Also on technical merits although more philosophically, with Upstart you're >> expressing yourself in an event-based DSL rather than writing configuration >> files. It's pretty generic. But unfortunately, that means it's also not >> entirely straightforward, and, I beli

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-24 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 12:32 +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote: > The point I'd like to raise is that the current model of CA > certificates seems to take an all-or-nothing approach: either a CA is > trusted (for whatever purpose) or not. For the IGTF CAs, this may not > be the right approach. I don't thi

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 24 May 2013 23:16, Игорь Пашев wrote: > 2013/5/23 Helmut Grohne : >> * stdout/stderr to syslog redirection >>This is possibly implementable, but needs more than a line of shell. > > In Solaris SMF each service has its own log file with SMF messages > *and* all stdout/stderr > > pashev@bok:~

Bug#709682: ITP: python-github -- Python library for the full Github API v3

2013-05-24 Thread Geoffrey Thomas
Package: wnpp Owner: Geoffrey Thomas Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-github Version : 1.15.0 Upstream Author : Vincent Jacques * URL : https://github.com/jacquev6/PyGithub * License : LGPL-3+ Programming Lang: Python Description : Python lib

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-24 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/5/23 Helmut Grohne : > * stdout/stderr to syslog redirection >This is possibly implementable, but needs more than a line of shell. In Solaris SMF each service has its own log file with SMF messages *and* all stdout/stderr pashev@bok:~$ find /var/log/svc/ /var/log/svc/ /var/log/svc/netw

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-24 Thread Dennis van Dok
On 24-05-13 19:18, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote: >> The point I'd like to raise is that the current model of CA >> certificates seems to take an all-or-nothing approach: either a CA is >> trusted (for whatever purpose) or not. For the IGTF CAs,

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Helmut Grohne: > * supervision/service restart/heartbeat >sysv simply does not provide this functionality. Actually, it does, through /etc/inittab. But this capability is rarely used. Curiously, Fedora doesn't use systemd's service restart functionality much, either. (By default, system

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > I don't understand the OP's post in the first place. What did he need to > know that wasn't discussed before? The opinions of all the people who have opinions but are uninterested in wading through huge threads to express them, don't read debian-devel at all (the call fo

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/24/2013 04:15 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:07:06AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 05/23/2013 03:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >>> How on earth does that contradict with the fact that 40%, i.e. >>> the minority of all contributions are done by the orig

Bug#709650: ITP: r-cran-spatstat -- http://www.komoot.de/

2013-05-24 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: r-cran-spatstat Version : 1.31-2 Upstream Author : Adrian Baddeley * URL : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/spatstat/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: R Description : GNU R Sp

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:29:07PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 24/05/13 11:29, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > As far as I understand (correct me if I am wrong), systemd instead of > > counting/tracking forks uses cgroups to keep track of the started > > processes. > systemd uses cgroups to trac

Bug#709644: ITP: shaarli -- minimalist delicious clone you can install on your own website

2013-05-24 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: shaarli Version : 0.0.41~beta Upstream Author : Sébastien SAUVAGE (sebsauvage.net) * URL : http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:shaarli * License : BSD-like Programming Lang: PHP

Re: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

2013-05-24 Thread Michael Tautschnig
> Hi, > > I would like to ask what would be general opinion to add functionality to > BTS to be able to blacklist[*] certain people from filling the bugs > directly. > [...] > * - It doesn't have to be blacklist per se, it could be a queue which would > be viewed by some fresher minds, who still

Re: "Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

2013-05-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I would like to ask what would be general opinion to add functionality > to BTS to be able to blacklist[*] certain people from filling the bugs > directly. We actually already have this functionality, as the BTS uses procmail. > There are few of them, so

Re: X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-24 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:32:29PM +0200, Dennis van Dok wrote: > The point I'd like to raise is that the current model of CA > certificates seems to take an all-or-nothing approach: either a CA is > trusted (for whatever purpose) or not. For the IGTF CAs, this may not > be the right approach. One

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Ole Laursen
Dmitrijs Ledkovs debian.org> writes: >> Also on technical merits although more philosophically, with Upstart you're >> expressing yourself in an event-based DSL rather than writing configuration >> files. It's pretty generic. But unfortunately, that means it's also not >> entirely straightforward

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 08:40:19AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013 12:50:00 -0700, Steve Langasek > wrote: > >Also worth noting: > > > >~/systemd$ find . -name '*.c' | grep -vE 'tests|test/|intl/|udev/' \ > > | xargs wc -l | tail -n1 > > 149081 total > >$ find . -name '*.c

"Blacklists" in BTS (stopping the trolls and bug machines)

2013-05-24 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi, I would like to ask what would be general opinion to add functionality to BTS to be able to blacklist[*] certain people from filling the bugs directly. There are few of them, some of them are trolls, some of them are just bug machines, but it is tiresome to handle useless bugreports with no o

Bug#709640: ITP: raintpl -- easy and fast template engine for PHP

2013-05-24 Thread Georges Khaznadar
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Georges Khaznadar * Package name: raintpl Version : 2.7.2 Upstream Author : Federico Ulfo & the Rain Team (http://www.federicoulfo.it/) * URL : http://www.raintpl.com * License : LGPL-3 Programming Lang: PHP, CSS Desc

Bug#709631: ITP: cdftools -- A fortran package for diagnostics of ocean model output

2013-05-24 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alastair McKinstry * Package name: cdftools Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Jean-Marc.Molines * URL : http://servforge.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/projects/CDFTOOLS * License : GPL Programming Lang: Fortran Description

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: > >> Matthias wrote: >> > >> >Please also keep in mind that many upstream projects ship systemd service >> >files. Therefore, most of the systemd work is already done too. >> >> Most? Really? Do you have stats for that? >> >Given the fact that sysv

Bug#709628: ITP: libscout-clojure -- A library for clojure to parse strings

2013-05-24 Thread Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza" * Package name: libscout-clojure Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : David Santiago * URL : https://github.com/davidsantiago/scout * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Clojure, Java Descr

Re: Is there an active Debian mactel team?

2013-05-24 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 24/05/2013 11:50, Vincent Cheng a écrit : > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Thibaut Paumard > wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> Despite all the efforts from many people, it's still quite >> difficult to get a fully functional Debian system on cert

Bug#709610: ITP: pinto -- module to curating a repository of Perl modules

2013-05-24 Thread Oleg Gashev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Oleg Gashev * Package name: pinto Version : 0.084 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Ryan Thalhammer * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Pinto * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : module to

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Simon McVittie
On 24/05/13 11:29, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > As far as I understand (correct me if I am wrong), systemd instead of > counting/tracking forks uses cgroups to keep track of the started > processes. systemd uses cgroups to track "which processes are part of this service?", which means the services ma

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:29:27AM +0100, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Blog posts are interesting to read, but at times I'd like to look up > reference manuals which are more than bear minimal man pages. Whilst > systemd ships manpages, the website has either incorrectly formatted > wiki-pages and/or

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 23 May 2013 10:37, Ole Laursen wrote: > Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: >> Sorry you ran into trouble with upstart. > > Not a DD, just a happy Debian user, hope you'll excuse me, but on the topic > of Upstart, I have some technical comments on why, surprisingly, I think it > may not be matu

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-05-24 02:16, brian m. carlson wrote: Yes, systemd uses separate processes, but they are not independent. They cannot be independently turned off. If I decide I do not want the journal features, however useful others might think they are, I should not have to resort to chmod and dpkg-stat

X.509 and CA certificates for other purposes (i.e. the IGTF)

2013-05-24 Thread Dennis van Dok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've seen the Debconf '12 discussion on X.509 certificate stores[1] and the Wiki page that came out of that discussion[2]. 1. http://www.irill.org/videos/debconf-12/895_X.509_Cert_Store_Discussion.mp4 2. http://wiki.debian.org/X.509 As far as I'

Re: Is there an active Debian mactel team?

2013-05-24 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dear all, > > Despite all the efforts from many people, it's still quite difficult to > get a fully functional Debian system on certain Apple hardware. > > I have been looking for a t

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Adam Borowski writes: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:55:41AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> On 05/23/2013 06:56 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> > "As you may know, systemd is developed by a large amount of >> contributors" >> >> How on earth does that contradict with the fact that 40%,

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Gergely Nagy
Steve Langasek writes: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 09:11:55AM +0200, Gergely Nagy wrote: > >> Also, post-raring, systemd is available in Ubuntu aswell, and in some >> cases, you can check for systemd at runtime, needing no modification to >> the package *at all*. > > What's available in Ubuntu are

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Bernd Schubert
On 05/22/2013 06:19 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 03:39:00PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: On 05/22/2013 04:50 AM, Uoti Urpala wrote: Lucas Nussbaum wrote: I went through the various init systems threads again during the last few days. My understanding of the consensus so fa

Re: Status of OpenRC in Debian (was: Debian systemd survey)

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/24/2013 02:19 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > What is the status of packaging OpenRC for Debian? Is there a group > doing that, is help needed? Ok, if you ask... Currently, the package can build and install, at least on Linux flavors of Debian. Once installed, it will unfortunately not underst

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:07:06AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'm still not convinced. Don't trust the lies from Lennart, the git > clone tells the truth: As a mostly lurker, I think there was already a request to be a bit more polite on this mailing list. The is a big difference between someo

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
If On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:50:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > A large number of contributors to an *init system* is not > something that should be a goal in and of itself Then > Furthermore, the statistics for systemd are themselves a distortion isn't really relevant here, let's please n

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:22:12AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > Ubuntu carries patches downstream to make logind work without systemd > but with upstart instead, but I don't think that doing that is a sane > solution. Various GNOME code incorrectly checked for systemd-as-init before using login

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 04:07:06AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/23/2013 03:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > How on earth does that contradict with the fact that 40%, i.e. > > the minority of all contributions are done by the original > > author. 40% still means that 60% of the co

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:22:12AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2013/5/24 brian m. carlson : Gentlemen, This is well-worn territory on -devel. Please bear in mind the OP's wish not to open this can of worms again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

Re: using upstart in Debian [was, Re: Debian systemd survey]

2013-05-24 Thread Ole Laursen
Steve Langasek debian.org> writes: > Sorry you ran into trouble with upstart. Not a DD, just a happy Debian user, hope you'll excuse me, but on the topic of Upstart, I have some technical comments on why, surprisingly, I think it may not be mature enough yet. A couple of years ago I was doing em

Re: Bwaaaaah I will tell my daddy^W^Wthe CTTE^W^Wa GR

2013-05-24 Thread Bjoern Meier
hi, 2013/5/23 Benjamin Drung : > Am Donnerstag, den 23.05.2013, 08:51 +0200 schrieb Bjoern Meier: >> hi, >> >> 2013/5/23 Ondřej Surý : >> > Joss isn't the only one to blame. Could all please stop bashing each >> other (and Joss) and stick back to technical arguments? (Saying "I'm >> sorry" private