Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-05-31 Thread Hashem Nasarat
On 06/01/2013 01:06 AM, Nikolas Kallis wrote: > > Another thing I am pissed off about is the lack of a graphical > text-editor being included in Debian 7.0. The last time I checked, my > calendar said 2013, and as so, would not expect a text-editor not > being included in a desktop-environment bas

Re: Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Thank you for your feedback! Nikolas Kallis writes: > Another thing I am pissed off about is the lack of a graphical > text-editor being included in Debian 7.0. The last time I checked, my > calendar said 2013, and as so, would not expect a text-editor not being > included in a desktop-environme

Feedback on Debian 7.0

2013-05-31 Thread Nikolas Kallis
Hello, I am just checking out Debian 7.0 for the first time and so far I overall like it. Among other things, its sleek, I like the colour scheme, its completely open source, stable, and I have so far not been effected by a bug. There are a few things I don't like about it though, that I w

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 31.05.13 23:31, Helmut Grohne (hel...@subdivi.de) wrote: > debian-devel@l.d.o has been talking about socket activation interfaces. > The technical differences are nicely summarized: > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 08:53:52PM +0200, Zbigniew J??drzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > But chronology is les

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/31/2013 04:39 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > Practical question: if I were to support systemd .service, upstart init job > and/or OpenRC FYI, you meant to write OpenRC runscripts. :) On 05/31/2013 05:00 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > If I understand correctly, OpenRC doesn't require init to directl

Bug#710584: ITP: mediawiki-mwxml2sql -- Tools to help import MediaWiki XML dumps into database

2013-05-31 Thread wpmirrordev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: wpmirrordev * Package name: mediawiki-mwxml2sql Version : 0.0.2 Upstream Author : Ariel T. Glenn * URL : https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/operations/dumps * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-05-31 Thread Michael Tautschnig
Hi Sylvestre, [...] > I started to report them (with patches for now) with minor as severity: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=clang-ftbfs;users=pkg-llvm-t...@lists.alioth.debian.org > You might want to take a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=m...@deb

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-05-31 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Ondřej, On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:44:53PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I have tried to rewrite php5-fpm init.d file for systemd and upstart and > ended up with: > cat > php5-fpm.service << EOF > [Unit] > Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager > After=syslog.target network.target > [Servi

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 01 Jun 2013, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , 2013-05-31, 18:44: > >As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you > >distribute this file as part of a program that contains a > >configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it > >under the

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 07:22:37PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 31 May 2013, Josh Triplett wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:44:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Upstream has changed the license to GPLv3. It has an additional > > > permission to negate

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Jakub Wilk writes: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , 2013-05-31, 18:44: >> As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you >> distribute this file as part of a program that contains a configuration >> script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under the same >> distribution

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , 2013-05-31, 18:44: As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you distribute this file as part of a program that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under the same distribution terms that you use for the res

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Josh Triplett writes: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:44:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> Upstream has changed the license to GPLv3. It has an additional >> permission to negate any "viral effects", but it only applies to >> packages that include a configuration script generated by

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-05-31 Thread Clint Byrum
On 2013-05-31 14:44, Ondřej Surý wrote: Hi, I have tried to rewrite php5-fpm init.d file for systemd and upstart and ended up with: cat > php5-fpm.service << EOF [Unit] Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/php5

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 31 May 2013, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:44:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Upstream has changed the license to GPLv3. It has an additional > > permission to negate any "viral effects", but it only applies to > > packages that include a configuratio

Re: GNU config (config.sub/guess) is now GPLv3 with additional permission

2013-05-31 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:44:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Upstream has changed the license to GPLv3. It has an additional > permission to negate any "viral effects", but it only applies to > packages that include a configuration script generated by GNU > autoconf. [...] > Here

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Helmut Grohne
Dear upstart developers, debian-devel@l.d.o has been talking about socket activation interfaces. The technical differences are nicely summarized: On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 08:53:52PM +0200, Zbigniew J??drzejewski-Szmek wrote: > But chronology is less important then the technical differences between

Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-05-31 Thread Ondřej Surý
Hi, I have tried to rewrite php5-fpm init.d file for systemd and upstart and ended up with: cat > php5-fpm.service << EOF [Unit] Description=The PHP FastCGI Process Manager After=syslog.target network.target [Service] Type=forking PIDFile=/var/run/php5-fpm.pid ExecStartPre=sh -c 'if [ -n "$(/usr

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Roger Lynn
On 30/05/13 16:30, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2013/5/30 Marco d'Itri : >> The /etc/ /lib/ /usr/lib/ split with files overriding each other, >> invented because RPM systems do not prompt the user on package upgrades >> and Red Hat does not support upgrading to the next major release. > Well, that migh

Re: Bug#708566: library -dev naming policy encourages unnecessary transitions

2013-05-31 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Hi, At Mon, 20 May 2013 19:33:43 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Guillem Jover writes: > > > Perhaps, but I think we just lack better documentation and advice when > > it comes to shared library handling in general. > > > There was an attempt by Junichi Uekawa (CCed) some time ago [L], but > >

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 16:33 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 31, Jeff Epler wrote: > > > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > > whole thread. > I'm sorry for the three kfreebsd users,

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Svante Signell
Ah, sorry wrong book: Animal farm, by the same author George Orwell: :) 1984 is about big brother watching you. (of course both very recommended these days) On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 21:06 +0200, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:59 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 08:59 -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:08:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I disagree with this claim. The wheezy release for kfreebsd is a joke, > > and we should end it with jessie unless there are real users. > > What makes me other than a "real

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 04:45:49PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > This > > is more true for the socket activation API that systemd could have > > reasonably adopted from upstart, but chose not to do. > > Didn't systemd actually have a socket activation API before upstart? I > don't remember exactl

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

2013-05-31 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:19:27PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:42 AM, brian m. carlson > wrote: > > NSS does not support TLS 1.2. Since RC4 is not used securely in TLS, > > and the only other choice in TLS 1.1 and earlier is block ciphers with > > CBC, this means t

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:12:38PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > That doesn't mean the toys are not important (...all work and no > play...), they are, but they must not stop the inovation. And as we > have sacrificed niche architecture and made them non-release, we must > be also prepared to do the

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 06:12:38PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On 31. 5. 2013, at 15:53, Jeff Epler wrote: > > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > > whole thread. > > I would happily su

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 05/28/2013 02:37 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: >> My major point here was precisely that you are *not* done with just >> writing the service/job descriptions/scripts for all those init >> systems. You'd likely have to patch every single daemon to enable the >> socket activ

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 05:10:31PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > Is there some material on wiki.d.o I can use (and if not can > > > somebody prepare it)? > > > > What Tollef, you and Steve wrote. > > As you can see, even you (asking t

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Ondřej Surý
On 31. 5. 2013, at 15:53, Jeff Epler wrote: > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > whole thread. I would happily support any non-linux kernel arch in form of integrating patches, but the

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/28/2013 02:37 PM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 09:13:44AM +0200, Ond??ej Surý wrote: >> I would be quite happy to write service files for two (systemd, upstart) or >> three (systemd, upstart, openrc) of those in all my packages[*], if it >> stops the endless flamewar here. I

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> When the source of the configuration is debconf, we know exactly when >> it changes and don't need anything like inotify to know when to rebuild >> it. > Disagreed, one can change a debconf-generated file manually, thanks to > the debconf-is-not-a-reg

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 08:53:07AM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote: > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > whole thread. I was just curious, not suggesting. I also asked this on an IRC channel and

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-31 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Is there some material on wiki.d.o I can use (and if not can > > somebody prepare it)? > What Tollef, you and Steve wrote. As you can see, even you (asking this question) made a mistake. So I think it would be a good to have a place to

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 31, Jeff Epler wrote: > The idea that somehow users of non-linux kernels don't matter or don't > even exist as debian users is one of the most frustrating bits of this > whole thread. I'm sorry for the three kfreebsd users, but sometimes reality sucks. Pretending that their needs are as mu

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/5/31 Jeff Epler : > Yes and yes. Wheezy kfreebsd amd64 is dandy for server and OK for some > minor graphical desktop stuff (opengl is not in a good state right now, > at least with nvidia hardware: nouveau is no-go due to not having kernel > support and proprietary won't install). if you wan

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:05:50PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote: > Do you actually run a kernel other than Linux and is anything other than > Linux usable? I can understand it is not nice, but feels like the other > options are bitrotting anyway. Yes and yes. Wheezy kfreebsd amd64 is dandy for serve

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:08:01PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > I disagree with this claim. The wheezy release for kfreebsd is a joke, > and we should end it with jessie unless there are real users. What makes me other than a "real user"? Perhaps some users of Debian are more equal^Wreal than

Re: Can't find MQ_PRIO_MAX in include

2013-05-31 Thread Fabrice Boissier
2013/5/31 Ben Hutchings > On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:21 +0200, Fabrice Boissier wrote: > > Hello, > [...] > > This is not a support forum for Linux development. But as people have > already started giving you silly answers: > I previously searched... and nearly nobody uses POSIX MQ (except QNX ?!

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Uoti Urpala
Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 01:44:12AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > I can't speak to other distributions, but in Debian, the systemd > > > maintainers > > > are in no position to decide that Debian will agree to rewrite its > > > > Focusing on "posi

Re: [clang] Report bugs on packages failing to build with clang

2013-05-31 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
On 29/05/2013 19:05, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Hello, > > With the recent setup of the parallel build infrastructure using clang > instead of gcc [1], I would like to start to report > bugs on packages failing to build with clang (with patches if possible). > The severity would be minor. > Of cours

Bug#710506: ITP: derelict3 -- A collection of dynamic D bindings to C libraries, useful for multimedia and game development.

2013-05-31 Thread Matthew Bekkema
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Matthew Bekkema * Package name: derelict3 Version : 0~git20130530 Upstream Author : Mike Parker * URL : https://github.com/aldacron/Derelict3 * License : Boost Software License Programming Lang: D Description : A

Re: Can't find MQ_PRIO_MAX in include

2013-05-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-05-31 at 11:21 +0200, Fabrice Boissier wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm trying to use some POSIX MQ on Debian. > > I tried my code on Debian, FreeBSD and Cygwin, and it went well. > > I encountered a problem on FreeBSD about the maximum priority, then I > searched about a fixed maximum, a

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 mai 2013 à 22:25 +0200, Marc Haber a écrit : > >Do you actually run a kernel other than Linux > > Actually no, but it is a pleasure to see Debian move towards this > freedom with every new release. I disagree with this claim. The wheezy release for kfreebsd is a joke, and we should

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:51:04 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >For Exim, the one thing I would want to change would be to ship a >configuration that by default created an SSL certificate and enabled >MAIN_TLS_ENABLE to enable TLS SMTP transfers. For e-mail coming in from other clients, with the local

Re: Debian systemd survey

2013-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:59:09 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> Russ Allbery wrote: >>> Get rid of some of that complexity because it is pointless (you'll find >>> that much of it is working around inadequacies in sysvinit). > >> Explain. > >For example, all the PID file handling

Re: How to check for other init systems from sysvinit script

2013-05-31 Thread Philipp Kern
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:12:45PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Bernat writes: > > I still use /etc/init.d/ start by habit and I find it convenient to > > divert to systemd but I have no strong opinion on this. As long as > > upstart jobs mask init scripts when booting, we are fine. >

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 31 May 2013 08:41:56 +0200, Jean-Christophe Dubacq wrote: >Le 30/05/2013 18:29, Marc Haber a écrit : >> On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:56:02 +0200, Olav Vitters >> wrote: >>> Seems the solutions are very focussed on the assumption that things >>> cannot be changed. E.g. programs currently send em

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 20:25:12 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: >It's somewhat depressing when I ask for the person's email address and their >response is "I don't email", and they ask me for my Facebook ID and my >response is "I don't use Facebook". It's a cultural divide that ends up >causing an ele

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 30 May 2013 23:25:15 +0300, Christian PERRIER wrote: >MTA on average people's desktop machine are point less. Is there >anyone who is *not* a Linux "geek" to deny this? Non-Geeks are probably not aware that a system holds many packages of software that expects to be able to deliver status

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

2013-05-31 Thread Brian May
On 31 May 2013 20:19, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Gnutls is really crappy about suid > see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/03/msg00298.html 2+ years later or 2 Debian releases later, I would have hoped these issues would be, somehow, magically, fixed by now :-( Basically makes libpam-

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

2013-05-31 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:42 AM, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 04:04:47PM +0200, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >> > Cons: >> > >> > - not all crypto libraries are equivalent; choosing one will exclude >> > some functionality provided by others >> >> SEE compat layer >> > - we someho

Bug#710488: ITP: libxmpcore-java -- Adobe XMP Toolkit for Java

2013-05-31 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: libxmpcore-java Version : 5.1.2 Upstream Author : Adobe * URL : http://www.adobe.com/devnet/xmp.html * License : BSD Programming Lang: Java Description : Adobe XMP Toolkit for Java

Re: Can't find MQ_PRIO_MAX in include

2013-05-31 Thread Fabrice Boissier
linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev already installed, and the file /usr/include/linux/mqueue.h contains MQ_PRIO_MAX and the struct mq_attr. But the structure mq_attr in /usr/include/linux/mqueue.h is in conflict with the one declared in the /usr/include/mqueue.h (precisely in /usr/include/bits/mqueue.h

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Russ Allbery (2013-05-30 19:56:23) > Wouter Verhelst writes: > > On 30-05-13 19:29, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > >> Maybe the best way forward is to have backports activated by > >> default > > > No. > > > If we're going down that route, we might as well give up on doing a > > stable rel

Re: Can't find MQ_PRIO_MAX in include

2013-05-31 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 31 May 2013 11:21:15 +0200 Fabrice Boissier wrote: > macro MQ_PRIO_MAX. > How should I found MQ_PRIO_MAX correctly on Debian ? > Debian Squeeze (2.6.32-042stab076.8 #1 SMP Tue May 14 > 20:38:14 MSK 2013 x86_64), So a linux kernel, the match is: /usr/include/linux/mqueue.h:#define MQ_P

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 10:26:37PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > Of course it won't. Upstream and Red Hat have shown many times that > they just don't care. I've already replied with various examples before refuting this. -- Regards, Olav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.de

Re: systemd .service file conversion

2013-05-31 Thread Olav Vitters
On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 01:59:02PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > I can't speak to other distributions, but in Debian, the systemd maintainers > are in no position to decide that Debian will agree to rewrite its > system-level integration code (which works quite well already, I meant more that: -

Can't find MQ_PRIO_MAX in include

2013-05-31 Thread Fabrice Boissier
Hello, I'm trying to use some POSIX MQ on Debian. I tried my code on Debian, FreeBSD and Cygwin, and it went well. I encountered a problem on FreeBSD about the maximum priority, then I searched about a fixed maximum, and I found MQ_PRIO_MAX. On FreeBSD and Cygwin it works properly, but on Debian,

Re: Switching to mozilla ESR in stable-security

2013-05-31 Thread Raphael Geissert
Russ Allbery debian.org> writes: [...] > This would *enable* users to install software from backports if it either > didn't exist in stable at all or if they explicitly requested it from > backports, but would not install such software by default. Packages which, by the way, are not supported by

Re: default MTA

2013-05-31 Thread Bjørn Mork
Jean-Christophe Dubacq writes: > And in my experience, email tends to be much more fragile than dbus. The warm fuzzy feeling you get when you don't know there is a problem... > How many times have I suddenly looked > at the queue of a computer that has been mis-configured and that > accumulate