Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 08:41:17AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > > And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. > > Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim > > today. > If it w

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 18:53 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit : > > And logind replacements have not appeared yet, as expected. > > Because this is a misstatement of the problem. Logind works systemd-shim > today. If it works as well as logind without systemd as pid 1 in earlier versions (leadi

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Norbert Preining: > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrc&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2014-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 > > Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. > Everyone usi

Re: Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
> The interesting dependency chain is: Simon, thank you very much for this mail and the two ones following it. Your objectiveness and choice of words in this heated debate is really appreciated! Cheers, Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >>> Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount >>> of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought >>

Re: Nonfree Artifacts

2014-06-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Andrew Schurman wrote: > I'm looking into leveraging or creating a tool which can identify > non-free artifacts that should be removed as part of a debian package. You should clarify what you mean by non-free in this situation; * artefacts under licenses that pr

Nonfree Artifacts

2014-06-25 Thread Andrew Schurman
Hey guys, I'm looking into leveraging or creating a tool which can identify non-free artifacts that should be removed as part of a debian package. The tool would be used for java projects. Does such exist? In order to create one, I would first need to figure out what kind of artifacts are non-fre

Bug#752737: ITP: patchclamp -- basic tool for patch clamping physiology recordings

2014-06-25 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Yaroslav Halchenko * Package name: patchclamp Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Vadim Alexeenko * URL : http://patchclamp.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : basic tool for patch clamping physio

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:22:50AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jun 26, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrc&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2014-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 26, Norbert Preining wrote: > > http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrc&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2014-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 > > Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will.

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Jeremy Stanley
On 2014-06-25 14:03:20 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > This doesn't change anything else that you point out, but that's > why you run startx & and then log out of the virtual console. On my workstations and travel machines I have: alias x='startx&exit' ...in my ~/.bash_aliases file. Wor

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Norbert Preining
> http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=systemd-sysv+upstart+openrc&show_installed=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=2014-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 Unfair - because it is in the most cases not on free will. Everyone using Gnome - and that are a lot o

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 25, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I used the word "Insidious" as I would have use "Stealth", because it's > happening slowly, without us noticing, that everything in Debian is > being locked with systemd. Soon, we'll have no choice. This is why you should stop fighting: systemd has won. http://

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Simon McVittie writes: > Orthogonal to that, startx is basically terrible. It only works because > /usr/bin/X is setuid root, and that seems Bad™. Also, if you run it from > a virtual console, a locked X screensaver is worthless, because someone > can just switch virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+Fn,

Bug#752709: ITP: antimicro -- Graphical program used to map keyboard keys and mouse controls to a gamepad

2014-06-25 Thread Travis Nickles
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Travis Nickles * Package name: antimicro Version : 2.4 Upstream Author : Travis Nickles * URL : https://github.com/Ryochan7/antimicro * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Graphical program used to

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: > > If you don't like that depencendy, it's your job to offer a patch > > which supports an alternative to that maintainer. > > It's not reasonable to tell I'm responsible for all of this. > This "you" was meant to refer to the collective set of people who want a supported sy

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 20:03, Svante Signell wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> Upstream developers in various projects increasingly oppose group-based >> access, because membership of many "desktop stuff" groups essentially >> means "can ssh in and do bad things to a local u

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 19:51, Svante Signell wrote: > Looks like consolekit is the package fork if such a thing ever happens. > There are still patches, mainly for kFreeBSD, from 2013-2014 in the > freedesktop BTS since the last release. When was the Debian switch from > consolekit to policykit-1 made? Conso

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 17:38 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: > > Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev > > only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other > > architectures? > > The interesting dependency chain i

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 20:23 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 24 juin 2014 à 19:57 +0200, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Are there any chances that some version of policykit-1 could stay free > > from any *systemd* dependency? > > PolicyKit needs a session tracking mechanism, and with Conso

Bug#752696: ITP: soci -- C++ database access library

2014-06-25 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: soci Version : 3.2.2 Upstream Author : see http://soci.sourceforge.net/people.html * URL : http://soci.sourceforge.net/ * License : Boost Software License 1.0 Programming Lang: C++ Descrip

Re: Heads-up: dpkg-buildflags switching to -fstack-protector-strong

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 25.06.2014 17:26, schrieb Romain Francoise: > In preparation of this switch David Suárez did a full archive rebuild on > EC2, the results of which are detailed in the post linked above. > In summary, the bulk of the failures is for packages that explicitly use > an older GCC version, which doesn

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On 25/06/14 15:43, Svante Signell wrote: > Regarding mate desktop policykit-1 build-depends on libsystemd-login-dev > only for linux-any. What functionality is missing for other > architectures? The interesting dependency chain is: policykit-1 Depends libpam-systemd [linux-any] (degraded function

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-06-25 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le 25/06/2014 08:49, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > This happened a few times already but only with well know DD. For what it's worth, Ole is well known an respected in the area in which he has contributed most, the Debian Astro team, which he created. Kind regards, Thibaut. signature.asc Descri

Heads-up: dpkg-buildflags switching to -fstack-protector-strong

2014-06-25 Thread Romain Francoise
Hi, dpkg-buildflags will soon start using -fstack-protector-strong instead of -fstack-protector as the compiler flag used to enable stack protection. The new flag is a new feature introduced in GCC 4.9, more information is available here: https://lwn.net/Articles/584225/ http://www.outflux.net/

Bug#752679: ITP: python-persistent -- generic persistence implementation for Python

2014-06-25 Thread Barry Warsaw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Barry Warsaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: python-persistent Version : 4.0.8 Upstream Author : Zope Foundation and Contributors * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/persistent/4.0.8 * License

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 22:01 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > You are insinuating that people are surreptitiously adding dependencies > > on systemd components their packages don’t need, just so that they get > > installed on your system to piss

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/25/2014 03:59 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : >> Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount >> of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought >> back by insidious reverse de

Re: improving downloader packages (was: Re: holes in secure apt)

2014-06-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Christoph Anton Mitterer dijo [Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:24:07PM +0200]: > > I do feel the keyring-maint package is a leftover from days long > > gone. Nowadays the keyring is kept at a DVCS tree, and regularly > > exported to a publicly accessible instance. > Any reason for that "internal" repo? I m

Re: improving downloader packages (was: Re: holes in secure apt)

2014-06-25 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Raphael Hertzog dijo [Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 09:17:25AM +0200]: > > FWIW, I was thinking about including the possible disappearance as one > > of the points to talk about in the DebConf BoF we proposed regarding > > keyring-maint. > > Why not switch it to something more dynamic ? > > Make the packa

Re: Bug#752589: scowl: Please mark packages as Multi-Arch: foreign

2014-06-25 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 06:09:38PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Frédéric Brière wrote: > > Marking all packages providing wordlist as "Multi-Arch: foreign" would > > allow them to satisfy dependencies from packages of foreign > > architectures. […] > 2) This particular issue

Re: so, systemd now and teh world still turns...

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Svante Signell: > Thanks to the systemd-must-die package I've prevented a new sneak in of > systemd-sysv on one of my computers. (have to get rid of the one already > there, time to boot is minutes and time from login to desktop is also > minutes :-( Faster boot, bah!) > Please take a closer

Bug#752621: ITP: python-oslo.db -- database connectivity to the different backends and helper utils

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-oslo.db Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List * URL : https://github.com/openstack/oslo.db * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Descrip

Bug#752619: ITP: python-retrying -- simplifies the task of adding retry behavior

2014-06-25 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-retrying Version : 1.2.2 Upstream Author : Ray Holder * URL : https://github.com/rholder/retrying * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Description : simplifies the

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thomas Goirand: > On 06/25/2014 02:23 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Are you going to recommend a $package-must-die for each of them? > > Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount > of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought > back

Re: SV: MATE 1.8 has now fully arrived in Debian

2014-06-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 25 juin 2014 à 14:29 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit : > Do you know any other package like systemd, with a non-negligible amount > of users willing to *not* have it installed, but which is always brought > back by insidious reverse dependencies? “Insidious reverse dependencies”? You a