Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
On 24 October 2013 07:30, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. > This looks like the dependency is kernel/platform dependant: http://packages.debian.org/sid/gnome-settings-daemon has: dep: systemd [not hppa, hurd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:39:15PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The problem is the scope creep. It's perfectly fine for > > gnome-settings-daemon to depend on the dbus services provided by systemd; > No, not even that, as long a

Re: let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-23 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek : > > > [...] > > >> If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, > > >> this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support > > >> syst

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:25:52AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > > > Also, GNOME does _not_ absolutely need systemd. Proof: Ubuntu. This part > > of its packaging in Debian strikes me as being intentionally malicious to > > p

let's split the systemd binary package [Was, Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME]

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:21:25AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2013/10/24 Steve Langasek : > > [...] > >> If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, > >> this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd. > > Well, that's one more reason t

Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 02:09:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit : > > Also, GNOME does _not_ absolutely need systemd. Proof: Ubuntu. This part > of its packaging in Debian strikes me as being intentionally malicious to > push an agenda. And this is not the first time, we had this with Network >

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:47:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, > > this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd. > > Well, that's one more reason the init system and the d

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
On 24 October 2013 11:09, Adam Borowski wrote: > * it breaks other users of cgroups. I have not tested this personally > (mostly because of the above point), but if I understand it right, it takes > over the whole cgroups system, requiring anything that runs on the same > kernel instance to beg

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2013/10/24 Steve Langasek : > [...] >> If Gnome depends on gnome-settings-daemon, which now depends on systemd, >> this might be a worrying trend, as non-Linux kernels don't support systemd. > > Well, that's one more reason the init system and the dbus services should be > separated out in the pack

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 02:39:15PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The problem is the scope creep. It's perfectly fine for > gnome-settings-daemon to depend on the dbus services provided by systemd; No, not even that, as long as xfce4[1] and other non-GNOME environments require gnome-settings-daem

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-23 Thread James Cloos
As a side note to this discussion, more interesting than a list of all resolvers would be a list of /verifying/ resolvers. An easy way to find all packaged verifying resolvers, to choose one for local installation would help many users. And an easy way to depend on a local verifier would help bot

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 09:47:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On 24 October 2013 08:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > > No, please reread that mail from the release team. It is a *proposal* > > from the systemd maintainers to implement full systemd support. The > > release team have not said that they

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Brian May
On 24 October 2013 08:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, please reread that mail from the release team. It is a *proposal* from > the systemd maintainers to implement full systemd support. The release > team > have not said that they have endorsed this as a release goal (and frankly, > I > don't e

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 03:43:03PM +0200, Ondřej Surý a écrit : > > The proposed names are: > > authoritative-name-server - authoritative domain name server > recursive-name-server - recursive domain name server Dear Ondřej, I am planning a Policy update by the end of the month. My understandi

Re: a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 09:47:23PM +0200, Patrice Duroux a écrit : > > May be this is the wrong place or my subject has been already discussed > in different ways, but is it a crazy idea that a package provides kinds > of pre- prerm and/or post- postinst scripts regarding package(s) that > is(are)

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 11:06:39PM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/23/2013 10:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > I wouldn't have any issues with that, but at least right now systemd is > > for me not yet production ready (it seems to miss proper dm-crypt > > integration - o

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2013-10-23 at 23:06 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 10/23/2013 10:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > > systemd, GNOME or similar. > > I don't hope either, I'm tired of these. > > > I wouldn't have an

Re: s390 removed from jessie

2013-10-23 Thread Mark Hymers
On Wed, 16, Oct, 2013 at 11:42:47PM +0100, Steve McIntyre spoke thus.. > >Following the removal of s390 from jessie, we intend to complete the > >process by removing it from sid this weekend. If anyone has any > >objection to this, please let us know as soon as possible. > >As noted above by Julie

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 10/23/2013 10:30 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about > systemd, GNOME or similar. I don't hope either, I'm tired of these. > I wouldn't have any issues with that, but at least right now systemd is > for me not yet production

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - a decision is needed, patches exist

2013-10-23 Thread gregor herrmann
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:05:30 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > And practical usage has shown that distinguishing between bootstrap, cross > > and test deps is genuinely useful. Doko has also expressed this opinion, > > and in is one of the few people that has used this seriously. So I really > >

systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-23 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. Well I hope this doesn't turn into some kind of flame war... about systemd, GNOME or similar. In sid, gnome-settings-daemon depends now on systemd. I wouldn't have any issues with that, but at least right now systemd is for me not yet production ready (it seems to miss proper dm-crypt integ

Bug#727300: ITP: libmoosex-types-path-tiny-perl -- Path::Tiny types and coercions for Moose

2013-10-23 Thread Damyan Ivanov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Damyan Ivanov * Package name: libmoosex-types-path-tiny-perl Version : 0.006 Upstream Author : David Golden * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/MooseX-Types-Path-Tiny * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Perl De

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22/10/13 21:27, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Some people have been trying to identify small sets of essential > packages already, in the context of bootstrapping an architecture[1]. I > wonder if that's likely to overlap with this? It encompasses toolchain > and essential arch-specific packages

a stupid suggestion for dpkg?

2013-10-23 Thread Patrice Duroux
Dear Debian Developers, May be this is the wrong place or my subject has been already discussed in different ways, but is it a crazy idea that a package provides kinds of pre- prerm and/or post- postinst scripts regarding package(s) that is(are) just recommended or suggested by it? So that those s

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - a decision is needed, patches exist

2013-10-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:01:36PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Steve Langasek [2013-10-19 20:46 -0700]: > > Hi Johannes, > > My understanding is that all build-dependency loops in the archive can be > > broken with a single additional stage (stage1), so only one added profile > > and one added buil

Re: Bootstrappable Debian - a decision is needed, patches exist

2013-10-23 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve Langasek [2013-10-19 20:46 -0700]: > Hi Johannes, > > My understanding is that all build-dependency loops in the archive can be > broken with a single additional stage (stage1), so only one added profile > and one added build-dependency field would be required. No, that's wrong. We ne

Re: Bug#727194: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind game engine

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 19:22:12 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Would you be interested in packaging this within the Games Team? > > Also, it would be great if game-data-packager could be enhanced to build a > package for the data files (and we can help you with that). Never mind, I see Jon beat me to

Re: Bug#727194: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind game engine

2013-10-23 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Bret, On Mon, 21 Oct 2013 16:41:43 +0200, Bret Curtis wrote: > * Package name: OpenMW > Version : 0.26.0 > Upstream Author : Marc Zinnschlag > * URL : http://www.openmw.org/ > * License : GPLv3 > Programming Lang: C++ > Description : Reimplementatio

Bug#727212: ITP: cpp-netlib -- C++ Network Library

2013-10-23 Thread Ximin Luo
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ximin Luo * Package name: cpp-netlib Version : 0.10.1 Upstream Author : cpp-netlib authors * URL : http://cpp-netlib.org/ * License : Boost Software License - Version 1.0 Programming Lang: C++ Description : C++ Ne

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Steven Chamberlain dixit: >Come to think of it, it must take a day or more for m68k to rebuild >eglibc. This is a more serious problem than resources needed by Kernel takes a day now (on the fastest VMs), eglibc 3 days, gcc 5 days (since gcj got folded into it; add another day or so once gnat wi

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 23/10/13 12:55, Stewart Smith wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven writes: >> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Stewart Smith >> wrote: >>> Jenkins can have slaves on remote hosts, via SSH. It runs a small java >>> app there, so as long as the arch has a JVM then you're pretty right. >> >> For whatever

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Stewart Smith
Geert Uytterhoeven writes: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Stewart Smith > wrote: >> Jenkins can have slaves on remote hosts, via SSH. It runs a small java >> app there, so as long as the arch has a JVM then you're pretty right. > > For whatever definition of small. I've seen it consuming 1 G

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 22/10/13 23:36, Stewart Smith wrote: > Jenkins can have slaves on remote hosts, via SSH. It runs a small java > app there, so as long as the arch has a JVM then you're pretty right. That may be useful to set up on some arches, for things where Jenkins needs direct control over CPU-intensive tas

Re: Bug#727195: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

2013-10-23 Thread bret curtis
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > clone 727195 -1 > reassign -1 game-data-packager > retitle -1 game-data-packager: please support packaging Morrowind data > found -1 22 > thanks > > Hi Bret, > > Would you consider/have you considered joining the Debian Games Team? > I s

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Britt Dodd
Small is 64m ram not 256m. I just woke up and was catching up on things. My apologies. On Oct 23, 2013 7:20 AM, "Britt Dodd" wrote: > I run Jenkins at my job. Small is around 256mb. Plus the Jenkins server > can sit on a high-memory machine and the agent just sit on a 68k box doing > builds. Smal

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-10-23 Thread Britt Dodd
I run Jenkins at my job. Small is around 256mb. Plus the Jenkins server can sit on a high-memory machine and the agent just sit on a 68k box doing builds. Small is like 64M ram. You Amiga/Atari guys seem to have oodles of ram to work with Lol. On Oct 23, 2013 2:45 AM, "Geert Uytterhoeven" wrote:

Re: Bug#727195: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

2013-10-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
clone 727195 -1 reassign -1 game-data-packager retitle -1 game-data-packager: please support packaging Morrowind data found -1 22 thanks Hi Bret, Would you consider/have you considered joining the Debian Games Team? I seem to recall this being discussed in the team at some point. (Team mailing l

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Bug#727195: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

2013-10-23 Thread Bret Curtis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bret Curtis * Package name: OpenMW Version : 0.26.0 Upstream Author : Marc Zinnschlag * URL : http://www.openmw.org/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III

Bug#727194: ITP: OpenMW -- Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind game engine

2013-10-23 Thread Bret Curtis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bret Curtis * Package name: OpenMW Version : 0.26.0 Upstream Author : Marc Zinnschlag * URL : http://www.openmw.org/ * License : GPLv3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : Reimplementation of The Elder Scrolls III