Re: The 'git' Debian package in squeeze and possible mass bug filing

2010-04-09 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 08/04/2010 14:33, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Hm, making git-core a dummy/transitional package, which pulls the "git" >> package >> on upgrades sounds like a better idea to me. >> Otherwise git won't be updated when going from lenny to squeeze. > > Gerr

taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile

2010-04-09 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi, I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via volatile. Reason: Users of taxbird have to comply with certain legal requirements, and eg. Lenny's version of taxbird is unfit to create tax reports for this year, while the version in Testing pulls in a significant num

Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
Package: bash Version: 4.0-7 Severity: serious Having just had an argument on IRC about /bin/sh diversions, it appears that the situation in Sid has changed again since I last looked at it. As I understood the discussions at Debconf last year and on this list, dash is now essential and the defaul

Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?

2010-04-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Fri Apr 09 10:52, Matthew Johnson wrote: > Having just had an argument on IRC about /bin/sh diversions, it appears that > the situation in Sid has changed again since I last looked at it. Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. Matt -- Matthew Johnson signature.

Bug#577068: Acknowledgement (Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?)

2010-04-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#577068 acknowledged by developer (close)

2010-04-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#577087: ITP: spim -- MIPS R2000/R3000 emulator

2010-04-09 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jean-Christophe Dubacq" Owner: "Jean-Christophe Dubacq" This package previously existed in Debian/non-free, but was removed due to lack of maintainership and being non-free. Since I use this for teaching, and that the license changed to BSD (except for o

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 08, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > I also don't really see the issues with bindv6only=0. If you listen on > all interfaces, it makes is easier. If you only listen on specific > interfaces, it's not in the way. This is not true, the big problem with bindv6only=0 is that you will get IPv4 conn

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Friday 09 April 2010 16:14:57 Marco d'Itri wrote: > I will be happy to re-evaluate this at the time of the freeze if it will > be determined that setting bindv6only=1 by default will have a > noticeable impact on the general system usability. Have you considered that some people might want to us

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 16:14:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I am not aware of any Debian package which still has not been fixed. > xdmcp is still broken in at least gdm and xdm (I've got patches for both, but they're not in sid). Cheers, Julien signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#577107: ITP: gunicorn -- Event-based HTTP/WSGI server

2010-04-09 Thread Chris Lamb
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chris Lamb X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: gunicorn Upstream Author : Benoit Chesneau * URL : http://www.gunicorn.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Event-based HTTP/WSG

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 09, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > > I will be happy to re-evaluate this at the time of the freeze if it will > > be determined that setting bindv6only=1 by default will have a > > noticeable impact on the general system usability. > Have you considered that some people might want to use softwar

Re: taxbird & co: please provide updates via volatile

2010-04-09 Thread Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
On 09/04/10 10:05, Toni Mueller wrote: > I suggest that updates to taxbird and its dependencies are provided via > volatile. Why do you mail -devel and not taxb...@p.d.o or the maintainer or the bts? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:29:40 +0200, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >On Apr 09, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> And some people might want to develop software. >They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. Reality Check, Please. They will happily switch to CentOS or Windows inste

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Freitag 09 April 2010 18:29:40 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. Actually not. They'll just assume that binding the port first for IPv4, then for IPv6 will work. Eventually, they'll be surprised that it fails elsewhere (notably those that

Re: Default value of net.ipv6.bindv6only should revert to 0

2010-04-09 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
On Friday 09 April 2010 18:29:40 Marco d'Itri wrote: > They will have an opportunity to develop more portable software. My little real life example: I tried to compile weborf on opensolaris, and i was expecting it to compile and work without any problem, because i was only using POSIX calls. It

Re: Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?

2010-04-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
> Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. So, what's the matter? Please enlighten us all! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.o

Re: Re: Why does bash make itself unconditionally /bin/sh?

2010-04-09 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 08:40:19PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > > > Hmm, thanks to bwh for pointing out my mistake, sorry for the noise. > > So, what's the matter? Please enlighten us all! mjj29 was using a pbuilder chroot environment. pbuilder sets DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive so that y

Bug#577124: ITP: xen-unmodified-drivers -- Kernel drivers for paravirt-on-hvm devices

2010-04-09 Thread C.J. Adams-Collier
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "C.J. Adams-Collier" Owner: "C.J. Adams-Collier" * Package name: xen-unmodified-drivers Version : 3.4.3 Upstream Author : Xen developers * URL : http://www.xen.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description

Bug#577130: ITP: libcrystalhd2 -- Library for Broadcom Crystal HD video decoder cards

2010-04-09 Thread Chase Douglas
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Chase Douglas * Package name: libcrystalhd2 Version : git.20100408 Upstream Author : Jarod Wilson * URL : http://git.wilsonet.com/crystalhd.git/ * License : LGPLv2 Programming Lang: C Description : Library for B