Bug#761152: ITP: python-strict-rfc3339 -- Strict, simple, lightweight RFC3339 functions

2014-09-10 Thread Florian Preinstorfer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Preinstorfer * Package name: python-strict-rfc3339 Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Daniel Richman, Adam Greig * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/strict-rfc3339/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: Python Des

Bug#761150: ITP: libpgobject-type-datetime-perl -- Datetime wrappers for PGObject

2014-09-10 Thread RJ Clay
Package: wnpp Owner: Robert James Clay Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpgobject-type-datetime-perl Version : 1.0.2 Upstream Author : Chris Travers License : BSD-2-clause Description :

Bug#761146: ITP: casacore-data -- Data for Common Astronomy Software Applications core library

2014-09-10 Thread Benda Xu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benda Xu * Package name: casacore-data Version : 0 Upstream Author : Australia Telescope National Facility * URL : https://code.google.com/p/casacore * License : LGPL Programming Lang: none Description : Data for

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 11/09/14 12:10 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > I will add that for a distribution that claims to be about it's users, > the systemd attitude of "We're *going* to use systemd so 'suck it up > Buttercup' really stinks at a social level. Especially since 'Free' is supposed to be 'as in Freedom no

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
For the heck of it, I will add that if in my job I pushed out crap like Network Manager and Pulseaudio at the time of introduction as 'the saviour of the Linux desktop' as a production release I would have fired long ago. Regards, Daniel On 11/09/14 12:10 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > I will

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
I will add that for a distribution that claims to be about it's users, the systemd attitude of "We're *going* to use systemd so 'suck it up Buttercup' really stinks at a social level. Not to mention, as many have pointed out, transition to systemd is *not* going to be painless and without problem

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I think the better way how to convert openvpn to systemd would be: > > to convert all AUTOSTART= VPNs to openvpn@ enabled instances and all > other to disabled openvpn@ instances at upgrade time. I guess there > might be a need to some more sub

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hi! Yes, please... I vote +1 for *not silently replace* sysvinit by systemd, when upgrading from Debian 7, to 8. Also, during Debian 8 installation, please, provide an "altinit" option ( http://pyro.eu.org/debian/pool/main/d/debian-altinit/ ?), so, people can choose between systemd / sysvinit (

Bug#761142: ITP: r-cran-pkgkitten -- GNU R package to create package skeletons

2014-09-10 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-pkgkitten Version : 0.1.1-1 Upstream Author : Dirk Eddelbuettel * URL or Web page : http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/pkgkitten.html * License : GPL (>= 2) Description : GNU R package to

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Daniel Dickinson
On 10/09/14 02:52 PM, Noel Torres wrote: > > Yes. Why to install OpenVPN which might not work? aptitude will tell you that > they are not coinstallable and the sysadmin will then have the option of > switching init system to a non default one, knowing what that means, and > having a working Ope

PackageKit cleanup: Do you use these functions?

2014-09-10 Thread Matthias Klumpp
Hello! (This is just a quick heads-up for the PackageKit-using people in Debian, so if you don't use PK, you can skip this mail.) We are currently cleaning up PackageKit[1] upstream, which means some functionality will soon no longer be available anymore. Short-term (= with one of the next uploads

Bug#761130: ITP: lgogdownloader -- downloader for GOG.com files

2014-09-10 Thread Stephen Kitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Kitt * Package name: lgogdownloader Version : 2.17 Upstream Author : Sude- * URL : https://sites.google.com/site/gogdownloader/ * License : WTFPL-2 Programming Lang: C++ Description : downloader for GOG.co

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Nick Phillips
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 18:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:44 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > > > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Steve Langasek: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > > What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but are > > crafted by hand? > > It's straightforward to check for init scripts that are not owned by any > packages. > … and besides, systemd

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 08:28:36PM +0100, Marcin Kulisz wrote: > What about cases when init scripts doesn't come from any package but are > crafted by hand? > Those can not be easily detected and compared for changes, as they are not > coming from any package and they may (and in some cases are)

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Marcin Kulisz
On 2014-09-09 18:23:58, Josh Triplett wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > Together with the /lib/sysvinit/init fallback binary in sysvinit and > > (and optionally my patch getting merged for grub [1]), this should > > provide for a hopefully seamless upgrade experience. > > Agreed, this seems like t

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 18:55:06 Adam D. Barratt escribió: > On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:47 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > > openvpn packag

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:47 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > openvpn package should Conflitcs systemd in order to avoid systemd being > > > installed > > >

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2014-09-10 at 17:44 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez

Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14

2014-09-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Please note the cross-post and Reply-To ] Hi folks, As promised, here's a quick summary of what was discussed at the BoF session in Portland. Apologies for the delay - it takes a while to write these up... :-/ Thanks to the awesome efforts of our video team, the session is already online [1].

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 05:25:44 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:26:28PM +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > openvpn package should Conflitcs systemd in order to avoid systemd being > > installed > > ITYM "to avoid openvpn being installed". No, I mean what I wrot

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Noel Torres
On Wednesday, 10 de September de 2014 03:12:16 Ben Hutchings escribió: > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > > > > > > > But if you don't (Is not uncommon to have serve

Bug#761075: ITP: fuzzylite -- fuzzy logic control library

2014-09-10 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: fuzzylite Version : 5.0 Upstream Author : Juan Rada-Vilela * URL : http://www.fuzzylite.com/cpp/ * License : LGPL3+ Programming Lang: C++ Description : fuzzy logic control library

Re: upgrades must not change the installed init system [was: Re: Cinnamon environment now available in testing]

2014-09-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014, at 04:12, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2014-09-09 at 21:24 +0100, Noel Torres wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 de September de 2014 21:18:55 Tollef Fog Heen escribió: > > > ]] Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez > > > > > > > But if you don't (Is not uncommon to have servers on remote locat

Bug#761065: ITP: cputool -- Utility which manages CPU usage and system load

2014-09-10 Thread Nigel Kukard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nigel Kukard * Package name: cputool Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Nigel Kukard * URL : https://gitlab.devlabs.linuxassist.net/cputool/cputool * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: C Description : Utility whic

Re: Seeking help with OpenVPN scripts and systemd

2014-09-10 Thread Ondřej Surý
Alberto, I think you might be too deep in sysvinit paradigms how we did (hack) things before. I personally think that mapping the functionality 1:1 is a wrong approach because you will end up in some impossible scenario in the end anyway. I think the better way how to convert openvpn to systemd

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > I guess I would want to see it installed on all non-chroot installs, hence > maybe hw-detect makes more sense. If there's a SCSI/ATA disk drive, install > smartmontools. Sounds good to me. You also need smart-notifier on desktops where the d

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there?

2014-09-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:46:08PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > It should likely be raised to priority=standard, which would make it part of > > the "standard system utilities" task. smartctl is relatively important for > > problem diagnosis wit

Re: More tasks option in Tasksel: what tasks do you want there? (reloaded)

2014-09-10 Thread Markus Koschany
On 10.09.2014 04:37, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Markus Koschany wrote: > >> Creating a games-all metapackage would be easily doable > > As someone who has been trying to maintain a system (rather than > metapackage) that is basically that (plus a bunch of games removed >

Bug#761035: ITP: xss-lock -- invoke external screen lock in response to X screensaver events

2014-09-10 Thread Ian Campbell
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ian Campbell * Package name: xss-lock Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Raymond Wagenmaker * URL : https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock * License : MIT Programming Lang: C Description : invoke external screen