Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Christian Pohl
Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:26:56 +0100, Arthur de Jong > wrote: >>On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >>> Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be >>> controlled by the rcN.d links and if that interface is too hard for >>> people

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Montag, 28. Februar 2011, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > But #3. is still a bug and unless it's been at least tried to be reproduced > is no good behaviour to close it just "because I've not the time and I > prefer focusing on #1 and #2". I don't think it's the maintainers duty to prove that bu

Re: Bug#615476: general: many binaries are linked with non-existent libtiff.so.3 library

2011-03-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 28/02/2011 02:01, Andreas Rottmann wrote: > Most software allows this without issues -- just run "./configure > --prefix=$HOME". You need to adjust $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH inside > your shell startup scripts, and you're done. > > I'd however strongly suggest not adding any additional

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 27/02/2011 16:31, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > But then, we have a problem, because: > - ruby-foo need one of (ruby1.8-foo, ruby1.9.1-foo, jruby-foo, > rubinius-foo) installed to work correctly I find this dependency tedious. If someone installs ruby-foo, how can he expect it to work if he does no

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 02/27/2011 04:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Ideally, we would have binary packages named like that: > ruby-foo: arch-indep part of the foo library > ruby1.8-foo: arch-dep part of the foo library, built for ruby1.8 > ruby1.9.1-foo: arch-dep part of the foo library, built for ruby1.9.1 Here you'

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] "Christian Pohl" | Isn't update-rc.d the way to configure the rc.d scripts? Or am I | old-fashioned. The problem was at least until update-rc.d grew the «disable» argument that disabling a daemon using update-rc.d was quite hard. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky abo

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > The problem was at least until update-rc.d grew the «disable» argument > that disabling a daemon using update-rc.d was quite hard. update-rc.d foo disable is indeed convenient. update-rc.d and policy-rc.d are currently two separate interfaces. If I want to make sure tha

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 01/03/11 at 10:44 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > On 02/27/2011 04:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > Ideally, we would have binary packages named like that: > > ruby-foo: arch-indep part of the foo library > > ruby1.8-foo: arch-dep part of the foo library, built for ruby1.8 > > ruby1.9.1-foo: arch-

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Holger Levsen [110301 09:56]: > On Montag, 28. Februar 2011, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > But #3. is still a bug and unless it's been at least tried to be reproduced > > is no good behaviour to close it just "because I've not the time and I > > prefer focusing on #1 and #2". > > I don't think it'

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Timo Juhani Lindfors | Tollef Fog Heen writes: | > The problem was at least until update-rc.d grew the «disable» argument | > that disabling a daemon using update-rc.d was quite hard. | | update-rc.d foo disable is indeed convenient. | | update-rc.d and policy-rc.d are currently two separat

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Bernhard, "Debian Bug report logs - #615153 exec: 58: /usr: Permission denied Package: general; Maintainer for general is debian-devel@lists.debian.org;" I think you just volunteered ;-) cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
On 03/01/2011 11:17 AM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > On 01/03/11 at 10:44 +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> On 02/27/2011 04:31 PM, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >>> Ideally, we would have binary packages named like that: >>> ruby-foo: arch-indep part of the foo library >>> ruby1.8-foo: arch-dep part of the foo li

Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi, As you may have known, valgrind is a powerful and easy to use tool that can be used to detect many memory management issues on Linux. Details regarding valgrind can be seen here, http://valgrind.org I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands on Debian

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
2011/3/1 ximalaya : > I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used > commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps > -ef, ls -latr, top, etc. For short-running processes that's generally not a problem. -- Olaf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Aron Xu
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:54, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > 2011/3/1 ximalaya : >> I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used >> commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps >> -ef, ls -latr, top, etc. > > For short-running processes that's

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Tokarev
01.03.2011 14:56, Aron Xu wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 19:54, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> 2011/3/1 ximalaya : >>> I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used >>> commands on Debian 6.0, 5.0.7 and 4.0. These commands include netstat, ps >>> -ef, ls -latr, top, etc.

Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi, As you may have known, valgrind is a powerful and easy to use tool that can be used to detect many memory management issues on Linux. Details regarding valgrind can be seen here, http://valgrind.org I notice that, valgrind reports memory leaks against some frequently used commands of Debian

Re:Re:Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Agree with you all. For process that will terminate anyway, this may be not a problem really. While if there is any problem with the underlying libraries, it is worth looking into... At 2011-03-01 20:19:39,ximalaya wrote: Hi all, It's a surprise that you replied this email so quickly. Thanks f

Re:Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread ximalaya
Hi all, It's a surprise that you replied this email so quickly. Thanks for your timely comments! Several days ago, I ever posted to debian-u...@lists.debian.org, but got no response. BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. Thanks, Xmly At 2011-03-01 20:04:16,"Michael Tokarev" wr

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Holger Levsen writes ("potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main"): > piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first > alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends > on "adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (>= 7.5-1

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Ian, On Dienstag, 1. März 2011, Ian Jackson wrote: > Would it be possible to make piuparts cope by ignoring dependencies > which are not available in the target suite ? sure - patches welcome ;-) But... that's not as easy as one would wish. Look at /piupartslib/dependencyparser.py and at th

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:50:27AM +0100, Christian Pohl wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:26:56 +0100, Arthur de Jong > > wrote: > >>On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >>> Personally, I'd rather we didn't have them, as this is supposed to be > >>> con

Bug#615984: ITP: out-of-order -- comedy science fiction adventure game

2011-03-01 Thread Tobias Hansen
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Hansen * Package name: out-of-order Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Tim Furnish * URL : http://outoforder.adventuredevelopers.com * License : Freeware with permission to redistribute, see below Programming Lang

Bug#615153: exec: 58: /usr: Permission denied

2011-03-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Debian_bug_report [110301 14:57]: > My problem happen after I did the distro upgrade... I pass 2 months out of > my debian distro, and I used the testing version (Squeeze), but I return > yesterday to my debian distro and the Squeeze becomes stable... so I did > the change to Debian testing aga

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> Isn't update-rc.d the way to configure the rc.d scripts? > > No, it's a way for *maintainer scripts* to manage init scripts. > >> Or am I old-fashioned. > > You are using an interface that was never meant for administrator use. > Nowadays th

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:26:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> Isn't update-rc.d the way to configure the rc.d scripts? > > No, it's a way for *maintainer scripts* to manage init scripts. > >> Or am I old-fashioned. > > You are us

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:26:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> Isn't update-rc.d the way to configure the rc.d scripts? > >> > No, it's a way for *maintainer scripts* to mana

Bug#615996: ITP: librole-identifiable-perl -- Moose roles to identify things

2011-03-01 Thread Alessandro Ghedini
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alessandro Ghedini * Package name: librole-identifiable-perl Version : 0.005 Upstream Author : Ricardo Signes * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Role-Identifiable/ * License : GPL-1+ or Artistic Programming Lang: Perl

building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Oliver Korff
Hi, I just want to know, if there is anything, that I can do to make crafty (non-free) to be built on all architectures. Of cause there is a XS-Autobuild: yes in the control file, and the build was officially requested. https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=crafty It says, that auto-building wor

Re: building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2011-03-01, Oliver Korff wrote: > I just want to know, if there is anything, that I can do to make crafty > (non-free) to be built on all architectures. Of cause there is a > XS-Autobuild: yes in the control file, and the build was officially > requested. > > https://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?p

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:19:37PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 04:26:23PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > >> >> Isn't update-rc.d the way to configu

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Sean Finney
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 17:19 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > >> So what *is* the proper UI? > > > > The sensible abstraction for this is 'service' - but it doesn't appear that > > service has support for enable/disable yet :( > > Do other distro's use service for this? actually i think chkconfig

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Josselin: En fecha Domingo, 27 de Febrero de 2011, Josselin Mouette escribió: > Le dimanche 27 février 2011 à 14:50 +0200, Dmitry Baryshev a écrit : > > Who should do this investigation? I did it because I know how to debug > > this. If user don't know how to debug this, his bug report will be

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Jesús M. Navarro writes ("Re: What bug reports are for"): > Hi, Josselin: > > You seem to forget the very reason bug reports are here. Their point is > > not to offer a service to our users - if you want that, you?ll need paid > > support. Bug reports are here to help improving the distribution. >

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Russ: En fecha Martes, 1 de Marzo de 2011, Russ Allbery escribió: > "Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > > En fecha Domingo, 27 de Febrero de 2011, Josselin Mouette escribió: > >> Now, maintainers receive a lot of bug reports, and have limited time to > >> > >> spare on Debian. Given the choice betw

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > Is *that* Debian's official position? That the bug report system is > not there to offer a service to Debian users? The BTS exists to help maintainers fix and track fixed bugs in their packages. The service to users comes from the BTS enabling mainta

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > I think I'll go here into troubled waters but It's my opinion (as > somebody that has worked implementing and policying issue tracking > systems, so I think it's an informed opinion, but just an opinion > nevertheless) that there's no thing such too long a bug list.

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Ian: En fecha Martes, 1 de Marzo de 2011, Ian Jackson escribió: > Jesús M. Navarro writes ("Re: What bug reports are for"): > > Hi, Josselin: > > > You seem to forget the very reason bug reports are here. Their point is > > > not to offer a service to our users - if you want that, you?ll need

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Olaf van der Spek
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Sean Finney wrote: > well, for starters the interface sucks from a sysadmin point of view > compared to stuff like chkconfig/service.  i also think that there's (a > perhaps shrunken, haven't checked in a while) set of things that you > just can't do with update-rc.

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:47:58 +0100 "Jesús M. Navarro" wrote: > Hi, Josselin: > > En fecha Domingo, 27 de Febrero de 2011, Josselin Mouette escribió: > > Le dimanche 27 février 2011 à 14:50 +0200, Dmitry Baryshev a écrit : > > > Who should do this investigation? I did it because I know how to > >

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Don: En fecha Martes, 1 de Marzo de 2011, Don Armstrong escribió: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2011, Jesús M. Navarro wrote: > > Is *that* Debian's official position? That the bug report system is > > not there to offer a service to Debian users? > > The BTS exists to help maintainers fix and track fixed

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Russ: En fecha Martes, 1 de Marzo de 2011, Russ Allbery escribió: > "Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > > I think I'll go here into troubled waters but It's my opinion (as > > somebody that has worked implementing and policying issue tracking > > systems, so I think it's an informed opinion, but jus

Re: building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Oliver Korff
On 01.03.2011 18:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > Needs-Build means that no builder has come around to build it yet. This > includes reasons like "because non-free's not important, it's only built > when there's nothing else to do" (see mips*) and "there are no non-free > autobuilders for $arch" (see the

Re: What bug reports are for

2011-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
"Jesús M. Navarro" writes: > No, you didn't (not at least that I managed to understand as such). > What you did was telling what happened (that #3 bugs tend to cost too > much time for too short a benefit, a thing the bug triager is only able > to know after the fact, or else he could simply let

Re: building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:12:18PM +0100, Oliver Korff wrote: > On 01.03.2011 18:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > > Needs-Build means that no builder has come around to build it yet. This > > includes reasons like "because non-free's not important, it's only built > > when there's nothing else to do" (se

Re: Are circular dependencies inside a source package OK?

2011-03-01 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le dimanche 27 février 2011 16:31:29, Lucas Nussbaum a écrit : > But then, we have a problem, because: > - ruby-foo need one of (ruby1.8-foo, ruby1.9.1-foo, jruby-foo, > rubinius-foo) installed to work correctly ok > - ruby1.8-foo, ruby1.9.1-foo, jruby-foo, rubinius-foo need ruby-foo > instal

Re: re buildd's resolver and package's build deps

2011-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 07:12:00PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 03:36:47PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 05:08:18PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > This is correct. I was thinking about drafting a patch for Policy > > > about this. Current Policy

Re: building crafty (non-free) automagically

2011-03-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:09:37PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:12:18PM +0100, Oliver Korff wrote: > > On 01.03.2011 18:24, Philipp Kern wrote: > > > Needs-Build means that no builder has come around to build it yet. This > > > includes reasons like "because non-free's

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Sean Finney writes: > imho i think we need to step back and re-think the entire way we're > currently handling init scripts, both from the packaging point of view > and from the end-user/admin point of view. Yes. There are two issues here. The "short term" issue is figuring out if the current

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen writes: > There are two issues here. > The "short term" issue is figuring out if the current practice of > DONT_DISABLE_ENABLEMENT=false and friends in /etc/default is something > we want to keep doing. > The "long term" issue is having a toolset, for the end user, for >

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: Hi all, [snip] BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhile? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made fr

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> You are using an interface that was never meant for administrator use. >> Nowadays there's an 'update-rc.d enable/disable', but even that, I think, >> was intended to be a backend for the 'service' command. > > So

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Raphael Geissert
Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > I think insserv makes it even more complicated, since I believe services > might > be pulled in, even if they're disabled. (Or it might be that insserv > just throws its hands into the air and tells you it doesn't know how to > do something the next time update-rc.d is run

Re: potential MBF: first alternate depends not available in main

2011-03-01 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, February 28, 2011 10:05:22 am Holger Levsen wrote: > Hi, > > piuparts in master-slave mode currently cannot test packages which first > alternate depends is not available in main, ie the secvpn package depends > on "adduser, bc, ssh, ppp, timeout | coreutils (>= 7.5-1), sudo" and > time

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread sean finney
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:38:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: >> BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. >> > > This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are > upstream and other distros just not determining them worthwhi

Re: Potential memory leaks reported by Valgrind against some frequently used commands

2011-03-01 Thread Adrian von Bidder
Hi! On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03.38:42 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/01/2011 06:19 AM, ximalaya wrote: > > Hi all, > > [snip] > > > BTW, I ever tried on Redhat Linux 9, no such problem. > > This is the interesting part. Is RH keeping their patches, or are > upstream and other distros just not de

Re: enable/disable flags in /etc/default

2011-03-01 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Raphael Geissert | Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > I think insserv makes it even more complicated, since I believe services | > might | > be pulled in, even if they're disabled. (Or it might be that insserv | > just throws its hands into the air and tells you it doesn't know how to | > do somethin