Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread frank paulsen
Andrey Rahmatullin writes: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:12:25AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> >> And, in any case, for your example on Debian you will do 6 -> 7 -> 8. > It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL > releases). there were three years between Woody and S

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Brian May
On 2017-04-27 16:19, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: It seems you've missed the point (which was about 4 years between RHEL releases). There was almost three years between Woody (July 19th 2002) and Sarge (June 6th 2005), yet we still allowed upgrades from Woody to Sarge. The time duration is irr

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 02:12:25AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > The reason that you can't dist-upgrade RHEL is that there's too large > > a gap between releases. > [...] > > You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dis

Re: I need your advice

2017-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Pavlo Solntsev wrote: > will not work so easily. I need to rebuild libgda and glib. It is > doable but, as you understands, I would prefer leave this solution as > my last chance. Both of these are in Debian already, you might want to file bugs asking to get the

Re: I need your advice

2017-04-26 Thread Pavlo Solntsev
Dear Paul. Thank you for quick response. > Your options are: >  > Manually build libgdamm/etc and install them in ~/ or /opt or > /usr/local will not work so easily. I need to rebuild libgda and glib. It is doable but, as you understands, I would prefer leave this solution as my last chance.

Re: I need your advice

2017-04-26 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Pavlo Solntsev wrote: > I need your advice about development under Debian. I use testing repo. > My desktop environment is Gnome and I contribute to some Gnome's > projects. For me the big challenge is to work with upstream libraries. > Basically, questions lays i

I need your advice

2017-04-26 Thread Pavlo Solntsev
Dear friends. I need your advice about development under Debian. I use testing repo. My desktop environment is Gnome and I contribute to some Gnome's projects. For me the big challenge is to work with upstream libraries. Basically, questions lays in the plane how to maintain upstream library that

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Luca Capello
Hi there, On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: > The reason that you can't dist-upgrade RHEL is that there's too large > a gap between releases. [...] > You can't dist-upgrade RHEL from 6 to 7 and you can't dist-upgrade > Debian from 6 to 8 in one leap. Debian *does* support dist-upgr

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 07:55:48PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > rpm doesn't have a problem with config file handling and deals with > > config files in a similar way that dpkg uses the "conffile" attribute > > to deal with them. rpm spec files use two (one-and-a-half?) macros: > > > > - "%confi

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 07:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > > The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of > > doing things is prevalent in the RPM world; in Debian, however, we > > traditionally have packages drop fi

De 10 Fatale Fouten bij het Delegeren

2017-04-26 Thread Roger Van Loocke
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Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > > All of this is caused by Red Hat having no support for upgrades: > > https://access.redhat.com/solutions/21964 > > # Red Hat does not support in-place upgrades between major versions 4, 5 and > # 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. (A major vers

Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

2017-04-26 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > The "packages drop files in /usr/*, sysadmins override in /etc" way of > doing things is prevalent in the RPM world; in Debian, however, we > traditionally have packages drop files in /etc, and let the maintainer > change them in place. T

Bug#861227: ITP: bfs -- Breadth-first version of find(1)

2017-04-26 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: la...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: bfs Version : 1.0-1 Upstream Author : Tavian Barnes * URL : https://github.com/tavianator/bfs * License : WTFPL Programming Lang: C Descript