Bug#760615: general: Shell scripts do not execute in gui.

2014-09-05 Thread Kenji Takashima
Package: general Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have been trying to execute multiple shell scripts in gui with no avail. The scripts succesfully executed in a terminal, however in the gui, the files would not execute when clicked on, and, when right-clicked, did not have a "run" option. O

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:01 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:52 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > > No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that > > > >

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:48:04PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:52 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that > > > you should always get this added service by default when you install

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 13:52 -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > > No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that > > you should always get this added service by default when you install > > a system with non-systemd init that doesn't need logind. Making

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 17:29 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture. > > Should we do this by default for x32 in d-i? (Yes, I know d-i doesn't > support x32 in other ways yet, but we might

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > systemd also pulls in a large amount of bloat (IIRC someone mentioned > 100ish packages in wheezy vs 146 in current jessie). Purging those is > nontrivial, as some had their priority bumped up. That seems much higher than I believe is the case. Wasn't there a detailed a

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Cameron Norman writes: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> In any case, IMHO a system that's been installed with wheezy, and >> then upgraded to jessie, should be identical to a system installed with >> jessie in the first place. > > Regardless of whether I agree or not,

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/05/2014 at 03:44 PM, Cameron Norman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: >> Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} >> subsystem not to switch to systemd (by whatever means, the >> details o

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Cameron Norman
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:20 AM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Noel Torres: >> * superior: plain no >> > Your opinion. Mine is "hell yes". Both opinions are completely worthless, > absent any reasoning. > Could we please stop the "systemd is good" vs. "systemd is bad" bashing? > > In any case,

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Cameron Norman
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Noel Torres wrote: >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) path. >> >> Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instead? > > No. Systemd is the default init system. The default dependencies sh

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:14:27PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:29:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture. > > > > Should we do this by default for x32

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2014-09-05 19:52 GMT+02:00 Zack Weinberg : >> Abstractly, I believe the ideal situation would be for all init systems in >> the archive to be *completely* co-installable, with /sbin/init a symlink >> under control of the administrator ... >

Re: Transition handling in Debian (was: systemd, again)

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Daniel Leidert: > Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > >In any case, IMHO a system that's been installed with wheezy, and > >then upgraded to jessie, should be identical to a system installed with > >jessie in the first place. > > That is nothing but wrong. [...] > Your argument is only reasonable fo

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matthias Klumpp: > I did not test this, but AFAIK PID 1 can not be a symlink... Obviously. (And why couldn't it be a symlink?) In fact: # ls -l /sbin/init lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 21 00:23 /sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd # -- -- Matthias Urlichs signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Daniel Pocock: > > >> c) offer a paid review service. FTP masters and assistants can sell > >> their time through an auction process. [...] > > > > I hope this is a joke. > > Not entirely > I was not suggesting people would pay to have their packages approved. > Only that there would be p

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 05/09/14 18:45, Ian Jackson wrote: > Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg"): >> This is really the root of the problem and I agree that it would be nice >> to find ways to help them. A solution is good for the FTP masters and >> good for the project. > > I agree. > >> A

Bug#760597: ITP: sosi2osm -- SOSI to OSM converter

2014-09-05 Thread ruben . undheim
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: ruben.undh...@gmail.com * Package name: sosi2osm Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Knut Karevoll * URL : https://github.com/Gnonthgol/sosi2osm * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : SOSI to OSM

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 07:25:13PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > And proposing a solution for a systemd-free (advanced) menu item in the > > installer will be accepted too? > If someone stands up and does the work, I guess so - but doing that is > a non-trivial task, since systemd is seeded by

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-09-05 19:52 GMT+02:00 Zack Weinberg : > Steve Langasek wrote: > >> No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that >> you should always get this added service by default when you install >> a system with non-systemd init that doesn't need logind. Making this >> a recomme

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:29:41PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture. > > Should we do this by default for x32 in d-i? (Yes, I know d-i doesn't > support x32 in other ways yet, but we

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Zack Weinberg
Steve Langasek wrote: No, that's not the true package relationship. There's no reason that you should always get this added service by default when you install a system with non-systemd init that doesn't need logind. Making this a recommends would be a workaround for bad metadata in the libpam

Re: Bug#760592: ITP: bsdowl -- bmake macros for building OCaml projects, TeX projects, and more

2014-09-05 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 18:57:50 +0200 Michael Gruenewald wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Michael Gruenewald > > * Package name: bsdowl > Version : 2.2.1 > Upstream Author : Michael Gruenewald > * URL : https://bitbucket.org/michipili/bsdowl

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-09-05 17:23 GMT+02:00 Svante Signell : > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:07 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: >> 2014-09-05 15:12 GMT+02:00 Svante Signell : >> > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> > How? All efforts so far and bugs reported are being brought down >> > activel

Bug#760592: ITP: bsdowl -- bmake macros for building OCaml projects, TeX projects, and more

2014-09-05 Thread Michael Gruenewald
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Gruenewald * Package name: bsdowl Version : 2.2.1 Upstream Author : Michael Gruenewald * URL : https://bitbucket.org/michipili/bsdowl * License : CeCILL-B FREE SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT Programming Lang: bmake

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 05, 2014 18:21:28 Daniel Pocock wrote: > On 05/09/14 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It is true that long NEW processing queues is a big problem. But it > > appears that a substantial amount of core team effort is being used to > > deal with poor submissions. If we can fix that

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg"): > This is really the root of the problem and I agree that it would be nice > to find ways to help them. A solution is good for the FTP masters and > good for the project. I agree. > Another way to look at your proposal may be to compar

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 05:05:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 08:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:57:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Noel Torres wrote: > > > > So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) >

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:43:01PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > No, they should add amd64 as a foreign architecture. Should we do this by default for x32 in d-i? (Yes, I know d-i doesn't support x32 in other ways yet, but we might as well get started at some point.) -- Colin Watson

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 05/09/14 17:48, Ian Jackson wrote: > It is true that long NEW processing queues is a big problem. But it > appears that a substantial amount of core team effort is being used to > deal with poor submissions. If we can fix that, we can fix the long > queue. > This is really the root of the

Transition handling in Debian (was: systemd, again)

2014-09-05 Thread Daniel Leidert
Matthias Urlichs wrote: >In any case, IMHO a system that's been installed with wheezy, and >then upgraded to jessie, should be identical to a system installed with >jessie in the first place. That is nothing but wrong. A system upgraded will (very probably) have a different configuration - becaus

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 08:47 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:57:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Noel Torres wrote: > > > So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) > > > path. > > > > Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-s

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 10:57:34AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Noel Torres wrote: > > So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) path. > > Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instead? > No. Systemd is the default init system. The default depend

Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg

2014-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Pocock writes ("Re: 2 months and no upload for pkg"): > There is one package I recently uploaded where I meant to use a > repackaged tarball to get rid of an embedded binary toolchain JAR. This > is a more nasty mistake of course but thanks to the diligence of the FTP > masters it was spott

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 12:51 +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: [...] > There are a few missing things. klibc builds for amd64 on x32, > which I will probably fix myself as it needs porting (upstream > is happy about me doing it); grub needs porting (or needs to > build for amd64 or i386 on x32) which I

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 16:07 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > 2014-09-05 15:12 GMT+02:00 Svante Signell : > > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > How? All efforts so far and bugs reported are being brought down > > actively. > Install systemd-shim + sysvinit-core, or simpl

Bug#760586: ITP: python-pint -- define, operate and manipulate physical quantities

2014-09-05 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pint Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Hernan Grecco * URL : https://github.com/hgrecco/pint * License : BSD-3-clauses Programming Lang: Python Description : define, operate

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: > Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"): > > It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or > > /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is > > _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever. > > Y

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-09-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On 05/09/14 16:03, Ian Jackson wrote: > Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"): >> It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or >> /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is >> _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever. > > You ne

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-09-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Simon McVittie writes ("Re: daemon user naming scheme"): > It is reasonable to use /var/lib/foo (or /run/foo or /var/cache/foo or > /var/games/foo) as the home directory of a system user whose name is > _foo, debian-foo, Debian-foo or whatever. You need to be careful that the directory chosen neve

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-09-05 15:12 GMT+02:00 Svante Signell : > On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Hi, > >> Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} subsystem not >> to switch to systemd (by whatever means, the details of which I personally >> am not at all interested in)

Re: systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 14:20 +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > Thus, unless the user explicitly tells the apt{-get,itude} subsystem not > to switch to systemd (by whatever means, the details of which I personally > am not at all interested in), a dist-upgrade should do so. How? All efforts so

Re: x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 12:51:41PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > grub needs porting (or needs to build for amd64 or i386 on x32) which > I may have a look at later; Hopefully not difficult: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760428 -- Colin Watson

systemd, again (Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing)

2014-09-05 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Noel Torres: > * superior: plain no > Your opinion. Mine is "hell yes". Both opinions are completely worthless, absent any reasoning. Could we please stop the "systemd is good" vs. "systemd is bad" bashing? In any case, IMHO a system that's been installed with wheezy, and then upgraded to je

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/05/2014 at 07:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/05/2014 at 04:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >> Noel Torres wrote: > >>> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for >>> the user) path. >>> >>> Should not logind depend on

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/05/2014 at 04:57 AM, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Noel Torres wrote: > >> So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the >> user) path. >> >> Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instead? > > No. Systemd is

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Noel Torres
On Friday, 5 de September de 2014 09:57:34 Josselin Mouette escribió: > Noel Torres wrote: > > So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) > > path. > > > > Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instead? > > No. Systemd is the default init system. The d

x32: a success story, and thanks to you all!

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA384 Hi everyone, some might have noticed that, once the Debian Linux Kernel Maintainers activated x32 support in the standard Debian kernels, I cross-graded my machine at work to it. I would like to say thanks to the various maintainers involved in thi

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-05 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 11:13:40AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > So please, do not outright dismiss scenarios you personally > cannot imagine. Please consider that your comments on the limited imagination of others can be felt as deliberately offensive. Cheers, -- Charles Plessy -- T

Re: Possible abuse of dpkg-deb -z9 for xz compressed binary packages

2014-09-05 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 5 Sep 2014, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > As I said, such lowmem embeded devices don't even need to install big > packages. Just you saying so doesn’t make it (more) true. Debian is a universal operating system… at least it tries to. Maybe one of these packages contains _one_ file you need to bui

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Noel Torres wrote: > So we are clearly failing to follow the least surprise (for the user) path. > > Should not logind depend on systemd-shim | systemd-sysv instead? No. Systemd is the default init system. The default dependencies should reflect that. And from a purely functional point of view

Re: Jessie without systemd as PID 1?

2014-09-05 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 3 de September de 2014 16:21:31 Svante Signell escribió: [...] > should be allowed, and I'm trying to find out how many of debian users > and developers are interested in working together with me on such a > solution. Best would be to have an option in the installer (hidden by [...]

Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing

2014-09-05 Thread Noel Torres
On Friday, 5 de September de 2014 02:37:18 Cameron Norman escribió: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 02:57:16PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:43 AM, envite wrote: > >> > Does this Cinnamon for Debian include syste