Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:14:23 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> "install it locally" is most easily done by "generate a package, install said >> package". Can we stop judging people by what they're trying to do, please? > >I didn't intend any judgem

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > "install it locally" is most easily done by "generate a package, install said > package". Can we stop judging people by what they're trying to do, please? I didn't intend any judgement, could you suggest an alternate wording that wouldn't

Re: Tests running as (real) root?

2014-10-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 12:27 AM, Svante Signell wrote: > I have a question about how to run tests for a package needing root to > run properly, fakeroot is not sufficient. I've made one of the packages > to build properly with: sudo run_test and fixed the sudoers file. But > how to fix that so th

Re: what free software is about/and supporting nonfree?, maybe add to clause 5?

2014-10-11 Thread Michael Ole Olsen
Free software is about the sharing of that freedom So there is nothing wrong with urging people to reconsider if non-free is really what they want (therefore my idea to add that to clause5) We shouldn't even be supporting non-free by hosting it, yet we do So it is a good idea to mention to peo

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Theodore Ts'o writes: > The flip side is that you can get burned by people trying to compile > from your git tree on either significantly older or significantly newer > system than what you typically use to develop against, and if autoconf > and friends have introduced incompatible changes to the

Re: dgit and upstream git repos

2014-10-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:26:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I understand why you feel this way, particularly given the tools that > you're working on, but this is not something I'm going to change as > upstream. Git does not contain generated files, and the tarball release > does, because thos

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:37:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > You have convinced me that in this case it's going to have to be that > > way, so my prejudices notwithstanding. I've rationalised the pain away > > by deciding it's no so bad as any competent programmer could see that is > > it onl

Bug#764887: ITP: node-etag -- entity tag creator - Node.js module

2014-10-11 Thread Leo Iannacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo Iannacone X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-etag Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Douglas Christopher Wilson * URL : https://github.com/jshttp/etag * License : Expat Programming Lang

Re: Packaging proprietary software

2014-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 07:19:07AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Mathieu Slabbinck wrote: > > > I was wondering if anyone could point me to the best practice way of doing > > this. > > Best practice would be to contact the copyright holder and ask them to > convert the

Re: Packaging proprietary software, maybe add to clause 5?

2014-10-11 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:46:27PM +0200, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: > having a too large non-free repos is not a good thing IMO. Be that as it may, there's no reason why Debian as a whole should agree with that. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Ob

Re: bash exorcism experiment ('bug' 762923 & 763012)

2014-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Russell Stuart writes: > Not really. I'm about documentation reflecting reality. Think of > putting an electrical component whose documentation says its 200 degrees > on a motherboard, only to find it fails at 190. When you ask why, is > "well we design it for 200, but only test it to 180" a s

Re: Tests running as (real) root?

2014-10-11 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 11 October 2014 17:27, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > > I have a question about how to run tests for a package needing root to > run properly, fakeroot is not sufficient. I've made one of the packages > to build properly with: sudo run_test and fixed the sudoers file. But > how to fix that so

Bug#764860: ITP: otb -- ORFEO Toolbox

2014-10-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Tille * Package name: otb Version : 4.2.1 Upstream Author : OTB Team * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/orfeo-toolbox/files/OTB/ * License : CeCILL Programming Lang: C++ Description : ORFEO Toolbox

Tests running as (real) root?

2014-10-11 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I have a question about how to run tests for a package needing root to run properly, fakeroot is not sufficient. I've made one of the packages to build properly with: sudo run_test and fixed the sudoers file. But how to fix that so the package can be built on a buildd? Thanks! -- To

Re: Bug#764567: ITP: obs-build -- Build DEB/RPM packages for various distributions inside a chroot

2014-10-11 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Dimitri, On Do 09 Okt 2014 11:55:00 CEST, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: So At the moment, I have exact same version as the upstream "releases" are in the openSUSE:Tools repository. Why should version numbers diverge from what's used in openSUSE and upstream? Ich kann nur ein bistchen Deutsch

Bug#764819: ITP: jenkins-matrix-auth-plugin -- Matrix Authorization Strategy Plugin for Jenkins

2014-10-11 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: jenkins-matrix-auth-plugin Version : 1.2 Upstream Author : Kohsuke Kawaguchi * URL : https://github.com/jenkinsci/matrix-auth-plugin * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java Description

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2014-10-11 Thread Brittster12
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Re: removable devices

2014-10-11 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, >> I use KDE on Sid. >> >> Lately (but I can't pinpoint the exact moment), plugging an USB drive >> has stopped generating any reaction and I need to mount manually. > > You need to grab udisks2 2.1.3-1 from snapshot.debian.org, any later version > doesn't work. This includes the current ve

Re: TLP package vs. pm-utils

2014-10-11 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, >> see [3] –, neither is pm-suspend called by systemd's sleep.target. > > Not by systemd as pid 1, but if you run with upstart or sysvinit, > systemd-shim will use pm-utils if it is installed, so that suspend > quirks still work. > > IMHO it is a bit unfortunate that all the suspend quirks a