Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 27 novembre 2014 à 21:29 +0100, Marc Haber a écrit : > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > wrote: > >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > >provide a modern init sys

Re: Javascript trigger design

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Tomas Pospisek: > At least the Ruby On Rails framework notices an updated JS and will > re-compress the whole JS blob from its parts. Does it call stat() on every constituent of these packed JS files on every web request, or does it do that with a periodic background checker? In any case, I'

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Troy Benjegerdes: > My argument for this (besides my personal bias), is that a *feature* of > mercurial is that history is immutable, while git has the feature which > allows rewriting history. (my opinion is that's more of a misfeature) > Git doesn't rewrite history; it merely allows you to

Re: Javascript trigger design

2014-11-27 Thread olivier sallou
Le Fri Nov 28 2014 at 01:55:26, Tomas Pospisek a écrit : > Am 28.11.2014 um 00:04 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > > Hi, > > > > Web application have evolved into monsters that needs lots of > > javascript. It's very common that these javascript applications are > > collecting all the .js library they u

Bug#771272: ITP: jnr-constants -- Java library to encapsulate constants in native libraries

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Potter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: jnr-constants Version : 0.8.5 Upstream Author : Wayne Meissner * URL : https://github.com/jnr/jnr-constants * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java, C Description : Java library t

Bug#771271: ITP: jnr-jffi -- Low-level library implementing the JNR Java foreign function interface

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Potter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: jnr-jffi Version : 1.2.7 Upstream Author : Wayne Meissner * URL : https://github.com/jnr/jffi * License : Apache-2.0, LGPL3+ Description : Low-level library implementing the JNR Java forei

Re: policy regarding redistributable binary files in upstream tarballs

2014-11-27 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 04:44:51PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Troy Benjegerdes: > > How hard would it be to add hooks/helpers to dpkg-buildpackage to know how > > to deal with git and mercurial repositories, and deterministically generate > > the 'source' tar.gz from the repo? > > >

Bug#771269: ITP: jnr-ffi -- Java library for loading native libraries without writing writing JNI code

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Potter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: jnr-ffi Version : 1.0.10 Upstream Author : Charles Nutter * URL : https://github.com/jnr/jnr-ffi * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java library for loading nati

Bug#771268: ITP: jnr-enxio -- Java extended native cross-platform I/O library

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Potter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: jnr-enxio Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Charles Nutter * URL : https://github.com/jnr/jnr-enxio * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java extended native cross-p

Bug#771267: ITP: jnr-unixsocket -- Java access to native libraries for unix sockets

2014-11-27 Thread Tim Potter
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tim Potter * Package name: jnr-unixsocket Version : 0.3 Upstream Author : Wayne Meissner * URL : https://github.com/jnr/jnr-unixsocket * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Java access to nat

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
It took me time to realize why writing the below didn't feel right in some uneasy way. That's because, allthough being logically completely correct (I boldly assert here...), what I wrote below completely misses the essence and is therefor just bullshit, which we can have a good laugh about. And th

Re: Javascript trigger design

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 28.11.2014 um 00:04 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > Hi, > > Web application have evolved into monsters that needs lots of > javascript. It's very common that these javascript applications are > collecting all the .js library they use, concatenate them into a single > file, and compress the result usi

Work-needing packages report for Nov 28, 2014

2014-11-27 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 621 (new: 1) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 147 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Bug#771253: ITP: gcab -- Microsoft Cabinet file manipulation tool

2014-11-27 Thread Stephen Kitt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Stephen Kitt * Package name: gcab Version : 0.4 Upstream Author : Marc-André Lureau * URL : https://wiki.gnome.org/msitools * License : LGPL-2.1+ Programming Lang: C Description : Microsoft Cabinet file manipulat

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 22:30:15 schrieb Vincent Bernat: > ❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald : > > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… > > Wild guess: because it manages processes like PID

Javascript trigger design

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi, Web application have evolved into monsters that needs lots of javascript. It's very common that these javascript applications are collecting all the .js library they use, concatenate them into a single file, and compress the result using all sorts of tools (node uglify is one of the implementa

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Marc Haber writes: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > wrote: >>Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces >>that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to >>provide a modern init system. > > Why does it initialize the network, p

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-27 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Neil Williams writes: > Atually, not particularly thinking of systemd at this point, but in > *general* there is a good technical advantage to this approach: > migrations & dependency control. It avoids the "fingers in every pie" > problem common to a number of source packages in Debian. > [.

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 27 novembre 2014 22:02 +0100, Martin Steigerwald  : > And well, I also wonder why systemd --user functionality is in the *same* > binary than the PID 1 stuff… but well… Wild guess: because it manages processes like PID 1? -- /* Fuck me gently with a chainsaw... */ 2.0.38 /usr/src/lin

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 21:29:40 schrieb Marc Haber: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette > > wrote: > >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > >provide a modern init

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:50:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package >> sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu >> PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie e

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 11:53:18 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Yes, the logind-related parte _could_ be provided elsewhere, but part of >the features logind needs is already implemented in systemd. So using that >instead of rolling your own from scratch is simply common sense. It would be common se

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:19:14 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: >Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces >that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to >provide a modern init system. Why does it initialize the network, provide an NTP implementation a

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 nov 14, 15:06:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > It's also not the worst idea to remove stuff from third party > repositories before upgrading and only install them again after the > upgrade. This way you can sure that they aren't interfering (something > which can't be prevented and just

Re: upgrading to jessie broke usb_storage on a mode switched device

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 27.11.2014 um 17:12 schrieb Thomas Goirand: > On 11/27/2014 09:28 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> Hello, >> >> after upgrading to jessie(-with systemd) connecting my mobile to the >> latop as a usb storage device stopped working. >> >> I do have to "rmmod usb_storage && modprobe usb_storage" in ord

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:24:12 +0100 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Neil Williams: > > By having separate source packages, a stable API becomes mandatory. > > You're correct in that it is easier to keep an API stable when you > have separate repositories. But that is not a hard requirement. Th

Re: upgrading to jessie broke usb_storage on a mode switched device

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2014 09:28 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Hello, > > after upgrading to jessie(-with systemd) connecting my mobile to the > latop as a usb storage device stopped working. > > I do have to "rmmod usb_storage && modprobe usb_storage" in order for > the usb storage devices to become visible ev

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package > sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu > PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie etc.) from wheezy to jessie. That's probably why you had issues

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Neil Williams: > By having separate source packages, a stable API becomes mandatory. You're correct in that it is easier to keep an API stable when you have separate repositories. But that is not a hard requirement. There are other ways to keep APIs stable. Like, for instance, publishing a sp

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > > What exactly _is_ the point? It's one git repository instead of five, but > > what (technical) problem would having five repos and five Debian source > > packages, instead of one, actually solve? > > > > IMHO: None at all. Instead it creates busy-work, and a testing he

Bug#771202: ITP: ruby-redis-store -- redis stores for Ruby frameworks

2014-11-27 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-redis-store Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Luca Guidi * URL : http://redis-store.org/redis-store/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : redis stores for Ruby

Bug#771201: ITP: python-tempest-lib -- OpenStack Functional Testing Library

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-tempest-lib Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : OpenStack Development Mailing List * URL : https://github.com/openstack/tempest-lib * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python

Re: splitting source packages

2014-11-27 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:28:01 +0100 Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, > > Martin Steigerwald: > > But I think for most of the people that dislike systemd this is the > > main concern: systemd is a lot of system building blocks in *one* > > repository and *one* debian package and while they may be > >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 14:28:01 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Martin Steigerwald: > > But I think for most of the people that dislike systemd this is the main > > concern: systemd is a lot of system building blocks in *one* repository > > and > > *one* debian package and while they may be

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" is a nice boost to troop morale. :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:22:14PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Allthough apt-get dist-upgrade broke half

upgrading to jessie broke usb_storage on a mode switched device

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello, after upgrading to jessie(-with systemd) connecting my mobile to the latop as a usb storage device stopped working. I do have to "rmmod usb_storage && modprobe usb_storage" in order for the usb storage devices to become visible every time. What is the suggested procedure from here on shor

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > But I think for most of the people that dislike systemd this is the main > concern: systemd is a lot of system building blocks in *one* repository and > *one* debian package and while they may be separatable they are not separated. > > But well, its an upstream topic a

successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello list, I hope it's appropriate here, I just wanted to say *thanks to everybody*, in particular the low level package and infrastructure maintainers for the excellent work they've done. Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and installations (qgis packag

Re: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Michael Tautschnig
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 10:50:26 +, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo > > Some suggestions for improving this table: > > 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some > of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Deb

Bug#769907: New Project for you.

2014-11-27 Thread Frigo Tamara (Student TOU14)
Write to Mrs Ana Rita on anarhom...@outlook.com

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 11:53:18 schrieb Matthias Urlichs: > Hi, Hi Matthias, > Martin Steigerwald: > > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > > that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > > > provide a modern init system. >

Re: ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, Edmund Grimley Evans wrote: > of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian > architectures ILP32 or LP64? Any rare exceptions could be described in I think so. Probably even all Linux architectures? > 4. I'd like to see some information about va_list added as

ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo Some suggestions for improving this table: 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian architectures ILP32 or LP64? Any rare exceptions could be described in a foo

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Am 27.11.2014 um 01:19 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Yes, yes, and yes. This needs to be put in a frame and bashed in the > head of anyone who keeps repeating that systemd is about GNOME. What about the idea of being mindful of the tone of your conversation and keeping it conciously moderate, Jossel

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > that could be provided elsewhere. The real purpose of systemd is to > > provide a modern init system. > > I still wonder why there are provided within systemd then. > Yes, the logind-related part

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 27. November 2014, 01:19:14 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le mercredi 26 novembre 2014 à 16:05 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > And many of us who actually *are* Debian server administrators have said > > repeatedly that your gut is wrong, in the innumerable versions of this > > conve