Re: RFC/RFR: dh-exec -- Scripts to help with executable debhelper files

2011-12-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Gergely Nagy writes: > Vincent Danjean writes: > >> Le 15/12/2011 18:33, Gergely Nagy a écrit : >>> , >>> | dh-exec.DEADBEEF/etc/my-package/my-package.conf /etc/my-package >>> | examples/* /usr/share/doc/my-package/examples >>> ` >>> >>> As far as I see, this should cause no ill side-eff

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joey Hess writes: > Gergely Nagy wrote: >> At the moment, I have something that works like this: >> >> , >> | #! /usr/bin/dh-exec-install >> | # The next one will simply echo it back to dh_install >> | source-file /dest-dir/ >> | >> | # This one will copy the file itself, following similar h

Re: Binary blobs in source packages

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Koch writes: > Hi, > > I just made a fool of myself on the simple-build-tool list by claiming that > Debian would build scala without scala. I only checked debian/rules and > debian/control and since scala is in main, I assumed that I must be right. > > However scala comes with a bytecode

Re: Getting dh_install to do what we need

2011-12-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow writes: >>> My implementation copies the file to the desired destination, which may >>> or may not be a good idea - I'll do some more tests to see which one's >>> less painful and more safe. >> >> That breaks -X, --fail-missing, --list-missing, --sourcedir, and --tmpdir > > T

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery writes: > Zachary Harris writes: > >> My understanding of the FHS would be that if a library is a dependency >> of a binary in /bin or /sbin, then such library belongs in /lib, not >> /usr/lib. (If for some reason the library is also desired in /usr/lib >> then a sym link from /lib

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:34:16AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > (reducing CC as I guess that most are subscribed to -devel) > > Quoting Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org): > > > I don't think these things are alike. Separating /var and /tmp from the > > rest of the file systems is done because

Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roger Leigh writes: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:53:24PM -0500, Zachary Harris wrote: >> I could be wrong, but my (admittedly stereotyped) impression of the >> standard use cases is that if you've got someone who DOES want to mount >> /usr separately from "/" (e.g. over NFS or because of a sele

Re: RFC/RFR: dh-exec -- Scripts to help with executable debhelper files

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Gergely Nagy writes: > Josselin Mouette writes: >> Well, thanks for making my point. Implementing these (useful) features >> in debhelper would be less pain to write and less eyesore for looking at >> the implementation. > > Perhaps. But the executable thing is what is in debhelper, not the > va

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-16 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:19:54PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 15, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > You keep repeating arguments in favour of moving /{bin,sbin,lib}/ to > > > /usr/ :-) > > Well, I think I still need persuading that this is the right direction > > to move the files. I still thi

Re: RFC/RFR: dh-exec -- Scripts to help with executable debhelper files

2011-12-16 Thread Gergely Nagy
Goswin von Brederlow writes: >> And for the record, I'm seeking input on the dh-exec implementation >> here. Keep the anti-executable-debhelper-foo thing in the other thread, >> please. > > But that is the actualy problem. The executable-debhelper-foo thing is > in many peoples optinion bad. > >

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Josh Triplett writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >>Josh Triplett writes: >>> In all of the recent discussions about separate /usr partitions, most >>> people seem to acknowledge them as unusual, special-purpose >>> configurations, even those who use them. To the extent they have a use >>> at all, th

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 at 12:13:55 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > As for /var that should be a seperate partition. [...] > Overall it is a good idea and having it a > seperate partition is no burden for the normal user. I don't think that should be the default; remember that the default is what

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:52:49AM +, Simon McVittie wrote: I used to have a separate /, /usr and /home on my own machines, but I've given up on that; in practice I never got the size estimates right (e.g. "/usr was large enough, but then I wanted to try vegastrike", and life's too short to s

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:41:39AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 00:15 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > Hurd doesn't support PATH_MAX. So trying to allocate memory based on > > PATH_MAX isn't going to work on Hurd. However, with glibc (and with > > POSIX 1003.1-2008) we ca

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 14:15 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Svante Signell writes ("[Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp > patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]"): > > Dear Debian/Hurd, GNU/Hurd and Debian-devel people. This arrived today. > > Any ideas on how to proceed? Is it

Re: from / to /usr/: a summary

2011-12-16 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 08 décembre 2011 à 20:16 +0100, Marco d'Itri a écrit : > Let's try to summarize the possible configurations and what is needed to > support them: > > - / and /usr are in the same filesystem > * no changes are needed > - / and /usr are in different filesystems > - an initramfs is or c

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Simon McVittie writes: > life's too short to spend time booting in single-user mode and > resizing LVs. That's probably why we now have online resizing of LVs and filesystems -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 02:13:29PM +0100, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > Simon McVittie writes: > > > life's too short to spend time booting in single-user mode and > > resizing LVs. > > That's probably why we now have online resizing of LVs and filesystems resize2fs, at least, only supports o

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Svante Signell writes ("Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]"): > On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 14:15 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Where can I find the detailed explanation of why this patch is > > required and how it works to fix the probl

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Tanguy Ortolo
Lars Wirzenius, 2011-12-16 15:38+0100: > resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem > larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root > filesystem. This is also true of Ext* with resize2fs, and probably most file systems. Online shrinking is a ve

Bug#652354: ITP: kosd -- KDE On-Screen Display framework

2011-12-16 Thread Cyril Lacoux
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Cyril Lacoux * Package name: kosd Version : 0.8.1 Upstream Author : Marcel Hasler * URL : http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=81457 * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : KDE On-Screen Displ

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 14:20 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Svante Signell writes ("Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp > patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]"): > > On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 14:15 +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Where can I find the detailed explanation of wh

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 14:31 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:41:39AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 00:15 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > Hurd doesn't support PATH_MAX. So trying to allocate memory based on > > > PATH_MAX isn't going to work on H

Re: Bug#652011: general: Repeated pattern of FHS violation: Dependencies of /sbin and /bin, belong in /lib

2011-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 16, Roger Leigh wrote: > Please correct my confusion if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure I can see > why it wouldn't be possible to snapshot the rootfs whichever way we > migrate files. Both / and /usr would need to be snapshotted as a whole > in order to do proper rollbacks wouldn't they? So

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: > I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the > "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr > partition (discussions on -devel and the current practice convinced me > that a separate /usr is seomthing that probably belongs

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Svante Signell writes ("Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]"): > [ stuff ] It looks like I'm not expressing myself well enough. Or at any rate, I'm not getting through. Perhaps someone else would like to try to explain ? I'll ha

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Ian Jackson
Russ Allbery writes ("Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]"): > I haven't looked at the patch in this thread, but most of the time that > I've seen PATH_MAX used in software, it's indicated a design flaw in an > interface: use of sta

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Michael Biebl
On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: > Christian PERRIER wrote: >> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the >> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr >> partition (discussions on -devel and the current practice convinced me >> that a separ

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:32:35PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: > > Christian PERRIER wrote: > >> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the > >> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr > >> partition (di

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Michael Biebl (bi...@debian.org): > > I don't think that d-i should be on the leading edge of this discussion. > > Once Debian has made up its mind, d-i can be updated to follow the > > consensus. > > To me it looks like there is broad consensus that a separate /usr > partition should be

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 16, Ian Jackson wrote: > Indeed so. But if upstream won't take the memory allocation patch > then a "big enough" #define is surely better than not having a dhcp > client. If Hurd developers would suddenly start to act pragmatically, then they may suddenly question what they are doing with

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl writes: > On 16.12.2011 18:38, Joey Hess wrote: >> Christian PERRIER wrote: >>> I'm inclined to follow this advice and would indeed propose that the >>> "atomic" partman-auto recipe is kept, however without a separate /usr >>> partition (discussions on -devel and the current practic

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 09:11:22PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 12/16/2011 04:46 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > In all of the recent discussions about separate /usr partitions, most > > people seem to acknowledge them as unusual, special-purpose > > configurations, even those who use them. > >

Bug#652368: ITP: ruby-gelf -- Ruby GELF library - Graylog2 Extended Log Format library

2011-12-16 Thread Jonas Genannt
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Genannt -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 * Package name: ruby-gelf Version : 1.3.2 Upstream Author : Lennart Koopmann, Alexey Palazhchenko * URL : https://github.com/Graylog2/gelf-rb * License : Expa

Re: [Fwd: [ISC-Bugs #25979] What happened to the dhcp patch in ISC-Bugs #24697 (Debian Bug #616290)?]

2011-12-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 19:46 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 16, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Indeed so. But if upstream won't take the memory allocation patch > > then a "big enough" #define is surely better than not having a dhcp > > client. > If Hurd developers would suddenly start to act prag

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > There isn't. There's just a broad consensus among those who are talking > about changing things. Yes. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > Lars Wirzenius, 2011-12-16 15:38+0100: > > resize2fs, at least, only supports online resizing to make the filesystem > > larger, not smaller. It's not particularly useful for, say, the root > > filesystem. > > This is also true of Ext* with resize2fs, and probably most file

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Joey Hess
Josh Triplett wrote: > Exactly my point, then. The guided partitioning option I mentioned > makes /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp all separate partitions. You just > said you don't want a separate /home, and you do want a separate /var. > Thus, you have custom requirements that don't fit the guided o

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 16, Josh Triplett wrote: > A configuration with everything in one partition needs no extra > configuration; anyone who wants such a configuration will like what the > guided partitioner comes up with. A configuration with five separate > partitions seems almost impossible to provide sensi

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Langasek wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > To me it looks like there is broad consensus that a separate /usr > > partition should be considered deprecated and this option removed from > > the installer. > > There isn't. There's just a broad consensus among those who are talking > about chan

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:13:55PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > Russ Allbery wrote: > >>Josh Triplett writes: > >>> In all of the recent discussions about separate /usr partitions, most > >>> people seem to acknowledge them as unusual, special-purpose > >>> confi

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Thomas Goirand
Hi Josh, Seems you're as much passionate about this topic as I am! :) At this point, I don't remotely hope to convince you, but perhaps you will find some of my points valid. On 12/17/2011 02:46 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Hence why I said "most people" (because I didn't want to imply > unanimity)

Re: Bug#652275: Guided partitioning should not offer separate /usr, /var, and /tmp partitions; leave that to manual partitioning

2011-12-16 Thread Josh Triplett
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 04:13:50AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Seems you're as much passionate about this topic as I am! :) > At this point, I don't remotely hope to convince you, but perhaps you > will find some of my points valid. Likewise. :) > On 12/17/2011 02:46 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: >

Bug#652423: ITP: v3c -- C/C++/sh/make/automake/Debian utility toolkit

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: v3c Version : 2.5.0-01 Upstream Author : Name * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c/ * License : (LGPL) Programming Lang: C, C++, make, m4 Description : C/C++/sh/make/automake

Bug#652425: ITP: treedb -- on-disk memory library

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: treedb Version : 1.3.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/treedb/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++,m4 Description : on-disk memory

Bug#652429: ITP: meta-treedb -- on-disk memory library using meta-data

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: meta-treedb Version : 1.4.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/meta-treedb/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++, m4 Description : on-d

Bug#652432: ITP: v3c-dcom -- Baby steps to DCOM

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: v3c-dcom Version : 0.5.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-dcom/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, C++, m4 Description : Baby steps

Bug#652433: ITP: v3c-qt -- v3c/automake wrapper for QT

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: v3c-qt Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-qt/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: m4 Description : v3c/automake wrapper f

Bug#652435: ITP: v3c-qt-examples -- v3c/automake wrapper for Qt4 - examples

2011-12-16 Thread Philip Ashmore
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Philip Ashmore * Package name: v3c-qt-examples Version : 0.7.0-01 Upstream Author : Philip Ashmore * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/v3c-qt/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : v3c/automake