Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
As the sole driver and implementor of DEP9, I would like to see all reverse depends of update-inetd migrate to reconf-inetd. That is, assuming inetd is not entirely deprecated by systemd/upstart/whathaveyou by the time jessie is released. On a less boring note, I would like to see apt-listbugs bec

Re: GFDL in main

2012-12-12 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 12:10:05PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > These packages include documentation licensed under GFDL with > Invariant Sections or Cover Texts: [..] If I understand correctly, the way to go is to split every problematic source package in two different source packages, one for main

[DEP9] RFC: draft-> candidate

2012-02-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[cc'ing the maintainers of openbsd-inetd & xinetd] Hi, DEP9 is implemented in the new package reconf-inetd (currently in unstable) and is ready to be tested. I've opened wishlist bugs #660568 & #660569 for a couple of "Depends: update-inetd" packages (the legacy tool to be replaced). DEP0's crit

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:13:26AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 02/16/2012 12:22 AM, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > hi Goswin, > > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:27:48PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote > > [edited]: > >> One thing though: Can I ad

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 09:41:40AM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote [edited]: [..] > Putting local config into /usr/share is wrong though. the answer to all local policy questions is: like you always did; you edit inetd.conf. /usr/share/reconf-inetd fragments are input to a *maintainer* tool. yo

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-15 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
hi Goswin, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 02:27:48PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote [edited]: > One thing though: Can I add my own local fragments? Is there a fragment > dir in /etc for that? you can, and they should also go to /usr/share/reconf-inetd (as long as the filenames don't conflict with any

Re: [DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-13 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Ian, First of all, thanks for the feedback. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 12:36:40PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Serafeim Zanikolas writes ("[DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd > (update-inetd replacement)"): > > To test it, in a nutshell: > > > > - make

[DEP9] call for testing of reconf-inetd (update-inetd replacement)

2012-02-10 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi, reconf-inetd is the replacement of update-inetd, as per DEP9. Unlike past proposals for replacing update-inetd, this one is actually implemented and available in experimental. This should be of interest for services that - require separate inetd.conf entries for ipv4/ipv6 versions -

[DEP9] progress update (aka what kept me busy during DebConf)

2011-08-01 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hey all, Maintainers of servers that may be invoked via inetd might want to checkout DEP9, if not done so already. The implementation is not quite there yet but there's been considerable progress during DebConf: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/reconf-inetd.git;a=summary Even though the

Re: Anyone looking at darcs?

2011-05-20 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 09:51:45PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote [edited]: > The burden of learning such basics lies with the contributor. Lack of > such due diligence is not so welcomed. Yes, lack of such due diligence is not welcome in -devel. But that doesn't justify rudeness. If one is not patient

Re: Bits from the Release Team - Kicking off Wheezy

2011-03-30 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 07:21:08PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote [edited]: > Below an update of the release goals I advocated and some thoughts on > others. [..] > For the IPv6 and LFS legacy release goals I think it would be best if we A minor aspect of ipv6 support, is for maintainer scripts to be able

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-20 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:59:46AM +0200, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Serafeim Zanikolas writes: > > sysv-rc-conf works for any symlink-based system. > > If you want to make sure that only carefully chosen services are ever > running then you still need to maintain your ow

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-09 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 11:54:05AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 03:42:28PM +0200, Faidon Liambotis wrote: [..] > > Are you serious? How's that a sysadmin interface? Yes, everything can be > > done using sh/cp/mv/vi, but this is hardly something that's either > > p

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-02 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 12:37:25PM +, Simon McVittie wrote [edited]: > (Cross-posting to d-d-games for discussion of the Quake III-based games) > > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 at 15:20:52 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Speaking as someone who has a few of the DONT_NOT_DISABLE_SERVICE > > variables in

[DEP9] inet-superserver configuration by maintainer scripts

2011-02-28 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Title: inet-superserver configuration by maintainer scripts DEP: 9 State: DRAFT Date: 2011-02-28 Drivers: Serafeim Zanikolas URL: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep8 License: http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt Abstract: Motivation, requirements and functiona

Re: Skilled manpower vs. grunt work

2011-01-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:44:10PM +, Chris Carr wrote [edited]: > In both cases I ended up "pestering the team with newbie questions" because > of the complexities of d-i and of packaging, respectively - not because I > was unintelligent or unmotivated, nor because I had failed to read the > a

Re: squeeze will not have googleearth-package

2011-01-08 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 02:30:36PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote [edited]: > so googleearth-package was removed from squeeze, because of a RC bug, which > was fixed on mentors.d.n for 4 days already when it was removed. The sponsorship request should have been CC'ed to the RC bug report. -S -- To

how to identify firmware packages

2011-01-08 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:04:33PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote [edited]: > We should find a better way to identify firmware packages, allowing > hw-detect to find the correct ones without unpacking. Some options: an optional control field in binary packages or, perhaps better, a debtags facet

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-24 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 10:32:49PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 05:52:43PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > >>>>> "LN" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > > > Milan Zamazal > >cl-clx-sbcl > >cl-flexi

Re: Full install/removal/upgrade test results available

2010-11-21 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 05:52:43PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > "LN" == Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > Milan Zamazal >cl-clx-sbcl >cl-flexichain >cl-mcclim >cl-mcclim-examples >cl-spatial-trees >cl-speech-dispatcher >cl-swank (U) >slime (U) > > These, as well

Re: teaching users how to submit good bug reports

2010-07-25 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 05:06:14AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2010, Marc Haber wrote: > > You assume that users know that we're willing to take bug reports. > > If you can come up with a good way to inform users of that without > annoying users who already know that, by all means

Re: call for python/pylons hackers

2010-06-23 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:12:16AM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote [edited]: > A short update: [..] Great! You should report to the list at http://workaround.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debexpo-devel (hosted by the gsoc mentor of debexpo) Cheers, Serafeim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-deve

Re: RFA: a lot of packages

2010-06-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Ola, On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 04:55:43PM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote [edited]: > Bug#586410: RFA: ntop -- display network usage in top-like format Has there been a resolution for possible-gpl-code-linked-with-openssl? -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: call for python/pylons hackers

2010-06-17 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi Jan, On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:38:27PM +0200, Jan Dittberner wrote: > I'm experienced with Python + Pylons and used mentors.d.n quite regularly > until > I got a DD. I will have a look at the current code base as soon as I find some > free time. Is there a list of current pending issues or id

call for python/pylons hackers

2010-06-16 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:13:35AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote [edited]: > Some of the above is part of the proposed design for debexpo, which > really needs folks to step up and work on it (hint hint). No need for subtlety. debexpo is dead: it hasn't had a commit in 11 months. debexpo needs a new pro

Re: Package upgrade in Debian without corresponding changelog entry

2010-01-30 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:41:46AM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Saturday 30 January 2010, Ben Finney wrote: > > So, the version was upgraded to ‘1.2.1-1+b1’, but there latest > > entry in the changelog is still only ‘1.4.1-1’. There is no entry > > describing the changes in the latest releas

Re: automake and intermediate files generated by yacc, lex, valac

2009-12-29 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 03:23:21AM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote [edited]: > there are several tools that generate C source code that is later > complied in object code, e.g. yacc, lex or valac. automake defaults to > distribute these built intermediate files, so they are usually not > regenerated

Re: is it ok to listen on a localhost port for tests during build time?

2009-12-06 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:56:37AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Serafeim Zanikolas > > | The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has no > | way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Would it be acceptable if I > | were to patch the

Bug#559681: ITP: flapjack -- scalable and distributed monitoring system

2009-12-06 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas * Package name: flapjack Version : 0.tag.0.5 Upstream Author : Lindsay Holmwood * URL : http://flapjack-project.com * License : BSD Programming Lang: Ruby Description : scalable and

is it ok to listen on a localhost port for tests during build time?

2009-12-02 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi all, I'm packaging an in-memory message queuing service [0] that ships tests, which require listening on a non-privileged port for the 1-2 seconds that the tests last. The service supports no authorisation/authentication and, as of now, has no way of limiting the size of inserted messages. Wou

Bug#557128: ITP: beanstalkd -- simple, in-memory workqueue server

2009-11-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas Severity: wishlist * Package name: beanstalkd Version : 1.4.2 Upstream Author : Keith Rarick  * URL : http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : simple, in-memory

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-15 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
[apologies for the late response] On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 05:35:37PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:13:45AM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > > > On Mon, Sep 07,

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-07 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 01:59:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 09:40:51PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > > but the primary benefits are making inetd support in maintainer scripts > > both robust and idempotent. > > update-inetd in its present form can already be us

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-07 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
tag 8927 + wontfix thanks On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 11:30:25PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote [edited]: > On Sep 04, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > > * abolish /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/xinetd.d/ and instead auto-generate > This is unacceptable, and I say this as the openbsd-inetd maint

Re: RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-05 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:02:21PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote [edited]: > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 09:54:19PM +0200, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > Invocations of update-inetd that lead to local policy overrides are bugs in > the caller, not in update-inetd. There is an explicitly reserve

RFC: update-inetd migration to dpkp-triggers

2009-09-04 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hello world, As the new vict^Wmaintainer of update-inetd, I'd appreciate a review of the proposal below to migrate it to dpkg triggers [0] The Current Messy State of Affairs update-inetd script is problematic (maintainer scripts use it to update the /etc/inetd.conf conffile leading to local-poli

OK to reduce priority of update-inetd to optional?

2009-09-03 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Hi, Is it OK to reduce update-inetd's priority to optional, to agree with the archive admin's override? (It should be, as all its rdepends are at most optional) It should be Priority: standard only if people use it interactively, and expect it to be part of a standard installation (but I'm guessi

Re: mpg321 package adoption

2009-06-19 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 03:20:50PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote [edited]: > can you please help to find the way which i can adopt an orphaned In http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ read the parts related to ITA. -S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Bug#513003: ITP: pdfshuffler -- merge, split and re-arrange pages from PDF documents

2009-01-25 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas * Package name: pdfshuffler Version : 0.3.1 Upstream Author : Konstantinos Poulios * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfshuffler * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Bug#490707: ITP: socnetv -- social network analysis and visualisation application

2008-07-13 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: socnetv Version : 0.44 Upstream Author : Dimitris Kalamaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://socnetv.sf.net * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++

Re: packages up for adoption

2008-05-22 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:59:55AM -0500, Anibal Avelar wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hi Joey. > > Im' very interested to adopt this packages: > > > archivemail Anibal, funny as it may sound, would you mind letting

Bug#473039: ITP: python-nodebox-web -- collection of web-related Python modules

2008-03-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-nodebox-web Version : 1.9.2 Upstream Author : Tom De Smedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Web/ * License : GPL

Bug#473038: ITP: indywiki -- visual Wikipedia browser

2008-03-27 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: indywiki Version : 0.9.8 Upstream Author : Markos Gogoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http

status of the DDTP project?

2005-01-08 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
afeim -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Fwd: greek translation in DDTP Date: Saturday 18 December 2004 02:02 From: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Michael (cc: to DDTP coordinators), Can you ple

Fwd: greek translation in DDTP

2004-12-13 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
- Subject: greek translation in DDTP Date: Sunday 12 December 2004 01:54 From: Serafeim Zanikolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I'm interested in translating the Debian package descriptions in greek, as part of the DDTP. I can see that there is no greek team in this pr