Re: mass bug filing against packages that don't remove alternatives

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-02-23 21:59, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Andreas Beckmann , 2012-02-23, 21:49: >> I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently leave >> alternatives on the system after they were removed. Forgetting to >> remove alternatives usually leaves dangling symlinks on the system and >> i

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-02-04 08:55, Vincent Bernat wrote: > OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du jeudi 02 février 2012, vers > Andreas Beckmann disait : > >> I'm planning to file bugs against all packages that currently fail the >> piuparts test with a 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' error in >> w

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > Common init scripts are short enough to make them easy to debug. Its > more annoying when these shellscripts call other shellscripts which call > other shellscripts - but that is a different issue which needs to be > solved - but not

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riku Voipio, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 12:20:45 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:06:22AM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > > Common init scripts are short enough to make them easy to debug. Its > > more annoying when these shellscripts call other shellscripts which call > > other shellscripts - b

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault > One big difference, however, is that when your system is screwed, you > might however still have an editor. Rebuilding a systemd is a bit more > involved, you probably don't even have a compiler on your production > system... Why would you need a compiler to edit a systemd u

Bug#665041: ITP: etl -- Synfig extended template library

2012-03-22 Thread Denis Washington
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Denis Washington * Package name: etl Version : 0.4.4 Upstream Author : Synfig Studio Development Team * URL : http://www.synfig.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : Synfig extended template lib

Bug#665042: ITP: synfig -- vector-based 2d animation package

2012-03-22 Thread Denis Washington
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Denis Washington * Package name: synfig Version : 0.63.04 Upstream Author : Synfig Studio Development Team * URL : http://www.synfig.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : vector-based 2d animati

Bug#665045: ITP: synfigstudio -- vector-based 2D animation package (graphical user interface)

2012-03-22 Thread Denis Washington
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Denis Washington * Package name: synfigstudio Version : 0.63.04 Upstream Author : Synfig Studio Development Team * URL : http://www.synfig.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : vector-based 2D a

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tollef Fog Heen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 12:22:20 +0100, a écrit : > > One big difference, however, is that when your system is screwed, you > > might however still have an editor. Rebuilding a systemd is a bit more > > involved, you probably don't even have a compiler on your production > > system... >

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > file. While obviously the C components of other init systems are bug free. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#665085: ITP: ruby-rack-protection -- Protects against typical web attacks for Rack application

2012-03-22 Thread Youhei SASAKI
Package: wnpp Owner: Youhei SASAKI Severity: wishlist * Package name: ruby-rack-protection Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Konstantine Haase * URL or Web page : http://rubygems.org/gems/rack-protetcion * License : Expat Description : Protects against typical web at

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Marco d'Itri writes ("Re: On init in Debian"): > On Mar 22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > > file. > > While obviously the C components of other init systems are bug free. They are enormously smaller, so any bug is much less like

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-22 13:50, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andreas Beckmann writes ("Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command > not found' errors detected by piuparts"): >> I have revised the template to include a link to the discussion about >> not removing system users on package removal: > > I think i

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes ("Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts"): > I have revised the template to include a link to the discussion about > not removing system users on package removal: I think it would be better to wait with this MBF until we h

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
Samuel Thibault writes: > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > file. And if /bin/sh breaks on an init style system, you can fix it with an editor? -- Stig Sandbeck Mathisen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 13:35:15 +0100, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > > file. > > And if /bin/sh breaks on an init style system, you can fix it with an > editor? You can cp a known-to-work-stat

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault Hi, > Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 13:35:15 +0100, a écrit : > > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > > > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > > > file. > > > > And if /bin/sh breaks on an init style system, you can fix it with an >

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tollef Fog Heen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 15:47:45 +0100, a écrit : > > Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 13:35:15 +0100, a écrit : > > > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > > > > > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > > > > file. > > > > > > And if /bin/sh breaks

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Ian Jackson wrote: > > While obviously the C components of other init systems are bug free. > > They are enormously smaller, so any bug is much less likely to be in > the C portion. (And an implementation of similar functionality in C > is likely to be more buggy than an imp

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > How is this different from copying a known-to-work, statically compiled > > copy of systemd in? > > What init scripts use from the shell is way less complex than what > systemd implements, and it's independant from what is needed to achieve Actuall

Bug#665204: general: create package for pg_rman Postgres backup utiltity

2012-03-22 Thread David Magda
Package: general Severity: wishlist The "pg_rman" utiltity would be a useful addition to Debian for people who run PostgreSQL systems: pg_rman is an online backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL. The goal of the pg_rman project is providing a method for online backup and PITR as easy a

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Russell Coker, le Fri 23 Mar 2012 02:25:57 +1100, a écrit : > > the boot. You can copy over a woking systemd, fine, your system can > > boot, but you have to debug the issue with the non-working systemd, i.e. > > go back to a non-booting system. When a bug is in the shell and hits the > > init scri

Bug#665204: general: create package for pg_rman Postgres backup utiltity

2012-03-22 Thread Neil Williams
reassign 665204 wnpp retitle 665204 RFP: pgram -- an online backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL quit On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:28:15 -0400 David Magda wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > The "pg_rman" utiltity would be a useful addition to Debian for people who > run PostgreSQL

Processed: Re: Bug#665204: general: create package for pg_rman Postgres backup utiltity

2012-03-22 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > reassign 665204 wnpp Bug #665204 [general] general: create package for pg_rman Postgres backup utiltity Bug reassigned from package 'general' to 'wnpp'. > retitle 665204 RFP: pgram -- an online backup and restore tool for PostgreSQL Bug #665204 [

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-03-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Matthias Klose writes: > On 21.03.2012 11:26, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> Matthias Klose writes: >> >>> On 19.03.2012 15:34, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Did you read the wiki page? Yes. Is the kind of information on which calling convention, b

Bug#665275: ITP: libpadre-plugin-yaml-perl -- YAML support for Padre The Perl IDE

2012-03-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libpadre-plugin-yaml-perl Version : 0.05 Upstream Author : Zeno Gantner * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Padre-Plugin-

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO En ce début d'après-midi ensoleillé du mercredi 21 mars 2012, vers 15:56, Svante Signell disait : > How on earth would anybody be able to make a decision if there are no > comparisons between the alternatives available? Throw a dice, rely on > gut feelings, or what? Since everybody is so da

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 16:47 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > A few people that would have to be expert in all the areas that systemd > implements? There are a lot of knobs in the Debian sysv initscripts, > which are there for a reason that has been determined by experts of > the corresponding

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:02:59 +0100, a écrit : > Or we can break this circle and replace this by a simpler solution. Yes, > we will run into bugs that we wouldn’t have run into without doing > anything, at first. And have to re-invent the knobs that the wheel needs. Samuel -- T

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 23:05 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:02:59 +0100, a écrit : > > Or we can break this circle and replace this by a simpler solution. Yes, > > we will run into bugs that we wouldn’t have run into without doing > > anything, at first

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:32:55 +0100, a écrit : > Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 23:05 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:02:59 +0100, a écrit : > > > Or we can break this circle and replace this by a simpler solution. Yes, > > > we will run into b

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:43:07 +0100, a écrit : > Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:32:55 +0100, a écrit : > > Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 23:05 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > > Josselin Mouette, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 23:02:59 +0100, a écrit : > > > > Or we can break this circle

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 23:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 16:47 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > A few people that would have to be expert in all the areas that systemd > > implements? There are a lot of knobs in the Debian sysv initscripts, > > which are there for

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Samuel Thibault writes: > So you believe that systemd already implements all the important details > that readahead+inetd+udev+autofs+fsck+quota+swapon+kbd+getty+etc. have > polished over time? I suspect there are corner cases that are not yet polished properly, which is why people run it and re

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something > breaks!!! Network *should* work also in console mode... Looking forward > to the which nasty bugs in the future are caused by systemd/upstart! Wow. You *clearly* don't kno

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
On Thursday, March 22, 2012 19:07:43, Svante Signell wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 23:02 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Le jeudi 22 mars 2012 à 16:47 +0100, Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > > A few people that would have to be expert in all the areas that systemd > > > implements? There are a lo

Work-needing packages report for Mar 23, 2012

2012-03-22 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 430 (new: 0) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 151 (new: 1) Total number of packages request

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:07:43AM +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Speaking about buggy software: Today the libpcre3 update broke a lot of > functions on my computer, including start of gdm3. And since I'm using > the network manager for ethernet (some stuff does not work without it), > it was

Bug#665318: ITP: faac -- AAC audio encoder

2012-03-22 Thread Andres Mejia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Multimedia Maintainers * Package name: faac Version : 1.28 Upstream Author : Menno Bakker * URL : http://www.audiocoding.com/ * License : GPL, LGPL, BSD, other Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : AAC a

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, Samuel Thibault wrote: > A few people that would have to be expert in all the areas that systemd > implements? There are a lot of knobs in the Debian sysv initscripts, > which are there for a reason that has been determined by experts of > the corresponding area during the pa

Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-22 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Beckmann writes ("Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts"): > Better suggestions welcome. I'd like to give advice how to fix the buggy > postrm scripts *now* while being aware that general changes in user > handling may be needed later. If

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-22 Thread Chris Knadle
On Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:30:21, Andres Mejia wrote: > On Mar 21, 2012 10:57 AM, "Svante Signell" wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 14:44 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > ]] Svante Signell > > > > > > > Regarding who is expert or not, can the people who considers > > themselves > > > >

ITP: ecere -- The Ecere SDK is a cross-platform toolkit for building software applications. The SDK includes a compiler for the eC language, and its lightweight runtime environment includes a GUI tool

2012-03-22 Thread Jerome St-Louis
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jerome St-Louis * Package name: ecere Version : 0.44.01 Upstream Author : Ecere Corporation & Contributors * URL : http://www.ecere.com/ * License : New BSD Programming Lang: eC Description : The Ecere SDK is a c