Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 15:26:06 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (h...@debian.org) [120609 02:31]: > > We'd just have to teach the tool to binNMU all arches when the target > > package would need it due to multiarch. Release team requests a binNMU of a > > package for som

Bug#676859: marked as done (general: Switch from ethernet to wifi connection problem)

2012-06-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 06/08/2012 09:15 AM, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi everyone, is this only me or do I have the feeling that we are going down the trench with Gnome? Repeatedly: - first login: nautilus segfaults in libnautilus-fileroller.so after log out and log in it sometimes works starting it manually mo

Re: Idea: mount /tmp to tmpfs depending on free space and RAM

2012-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 04:59:14PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/8 Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > > [Wouter Verhelst] > >> - You could mount your mail spool there, and make things go blazingly > >> fast [1] > > You could, but this is not related to /tmp. Sure; that was a joke, after all. > >>

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:51:19AM +0300, Serge wrote: > Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. [Lots of drivel, including thoroughly debunked statements, snipped. Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? Sorry for being angry, but there's a limit to how many times you

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:51:19AM +0300, Serge wrote: > Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. Sorry, but this is a biased summary, and therefore useless for what it intends to be. [...] > "/tmp on tmpfs is good" quotes > == > No real quotes here. Most

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Guillem Jover (guil...@debian.org) [120610 10:08]: > As I mentioned in the long ref-counting thread, I strongly disagree this > is a correct solution, it just seems like a hack to me. Instead I > think we should consider changelog (and copyright as long as it's in > machine parseable format) as d

Planned changes to Debian Maintainer uploads

2012-06-10 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, (Please send followup messages to -project.) The ftp team wants to change how allowing Debian Maintainers to upload packages works. The current approach with the DM-Upload-Allowed field has a few issues we would like to address: - It applies to all DMs listed as Maintainer/Uploaders. It is

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:52:24PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > Perhaps we could add the binNMU entry for the moment and fix the rest > later? Or whatever would make you more happy. Just I'd like to be able > to schedule binNMUs again on ma-packages. There is no such block in place. Kind regards

Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
[ Dropping the bug report, moving the discussion to debian-dpkg too ] Hi, On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-09 at 15:26:06 +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > However, we discussed that during the multi-arch bof last Debconf, and > > came to the conclusion that it would be b

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Adam Borowski wrote: >> Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. > Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? Yes, I know it was a biased summary. So as yours. But there's a difference between mine and yours. Mine is based on some real-world applications, yours

Re: Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Roger Leigh dixit: >However, if you have any lingering scripts without any LSB headers, >you'll need to fix them up or remove them to allow dynamic boot >ordering to be enabled. This is obviously not too desirable, since sudo apt-get --purge install file-rc insserv- bye //mirabilos -- 16:47⎜«m

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Bjørn Mork
Serge writes: > 2012/6/10 Adam Borowski wrote: > >>> Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. >> Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? > > Yes, I know it was a biased summary. I think you might start to piss off a few people now... Look at what you are quoting above

Bug#676921: ITP: amd64-microcode -- Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs

2012-06-10 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh * Package name: amd64-microcode Version : 0.20120117 Upstream Author : AMD, Inc * URL : http://www.amd64.org/support/microcode.html * License : proprietary Description : Processor microco

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Sorry, but this is a biased summary, and therefore useless for what it > intends to be. Yes, I know. It's biased toward the /tmp and real-world applications. >> "/tmp on tmpfs is good" quotes >> No real quotes here. Most of this and other threads were about why

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Uoti Urpala
Serge wrote: > 2012/6/10 Adam Borowski wrote: > >> Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. > > Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? > > Yes, I know it was a biased summary. So as yours. But there's a difference > between mine and yours. Mine is based on some real-wo

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread marcel partap
On 09/06/12 21:27, Roland Mas wrote: > here, but everything I've felt and read and heard is that the primary > focus of Gnome is no longer "everyone" but "users doing basic tasks", > and "users trying to be productive" (ie maximize the bandwidth of the > human-computer interface) are an afterthough

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: * Less wear of SSD drives. • Contrary to Serge's claims, SSDs are not an oddity, and it's not unlikely these will be a majority before wheezy becomes oldstable. He didn’t say they were oddities. He said you should more worry abo

Re: Dependency-based boot ordering and sysvinit in unstable

2012-06-10 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thorsten Glaser] > Roger Leigh dixit: > >>However, if you have any lingering scripts without any LSB headers, >>you'll need to fix them up or remove them to allow dynamic boot >>ordering to be enabled. This is obviously not too desirable, since > > sudo apt-get --purge install file-rc insserv-

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:38:42PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List: > > On 09/06/12 19:54, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > >+100 On that. Anyone that thinks 2 was better doesn't know much -- What > >most are saying is they liked the layout better (I think). In that case > >Cinamon is a good ch

Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Adam Borowski wrote: > This is not an insurmountable problem: /tmp might use some form of > overlay that uses tmpfs for regular use and starts shunting to some > area other than swap once it sees it is being used for large files. > Or alternatively, there could possibly be a dy

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 09:27:05PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > Stephen Allen, 2012-06-09 13:54:17 -0400 : > > [...] > > > +100 On that. Anyone that thinks 2 was better doesn't know much -- > > There's no call for that belittling. You're right, poor choice of words. My apologies. ;-D > > What

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Uoti Urpala wrote: >> Yes, I know it was a biased summary. So as yours. But there's a difference >> between mine and yours. Mine is based on some real-world applications, > > You've posted blatantly false claims. If you post claims like "1+1 > equals 2 because the moon is made of cheese"

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Stephan Seitz > Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions, > even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and LVM? Depends on what you mean by out of the box. I suspect you still need to turn on discard support (since it has security implications). It does not require

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Raphael Hertzog wrote: > As such, I suggest that we handle "binary rebuild" differently: > - debian/changelog is left unmodified since it's the source changelog > => it defines the ${source:Version} substvar > - debian/changelog.binary-rebuild (or any other better name) is created > when we wa

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Stephan Seitz Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions, even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and LVM? Depends on what you mean by out of the box. I suspect you still need to turn on discard suppo

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 06:13:24PM +0300, Serge wrote: > 2012/6/10 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > Sorry, but this is a biased summary, and therefore useless for what it > > intends to be. > > Yes, I know. It's biased toward the /tmp and real-world applications. > > >> "/tmp on tmpfs is good" quote

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap? (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: > Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system > uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was tempted more than once to file a RC bug with a title like this

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > swap file on / [...] is > really the direction that we should be going NO ! Does this need to be explained? :/ Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:28:59AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 06/10/2012 11:55 PM, Stephan Seitz wrote: Well, if I start Virtual Box on my notebook (4 GB RAM), the system uses the swap partition. Frankly, I don't know what the fuck virtualbox is doing with its memory management, but I was

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > As such, I suggest that we handle "binary rebuild" differently: > > - debian/changelog is left unmodified since it's the source changelog > > => it defines the ${source:Version} substvar > > - debian/changelog.binary-rebu

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:35:47PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:51:19AM +0300, Serge wrote: > > Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. > But, for the rest of us, here's a different summary. I've long thought that the wiki might be a good tool for trying

Re: Lets (eventually) find a good solution for /tmp

2012-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:31:36AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 06/11/2012 12:06 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > swap file on / [...] is > > really the direction that we should be going > NO ! > > Does this need to be explained? :/ Perhaps? Please point me at the msg-id of the explanation if I

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 12:01:12PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:38:42PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > Is Cinnamon detributed within Debian ? > > No not last time I checked. It's availabe from LMDE (LinuxMintDebian) > and since that distro works with Debian testing sou

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Philipp Kern
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:46:57PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >]] Stephan Seitz > >>Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions, > >>even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and LVM? > >Depends on what you

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Uoti Urpala
Serge wrote: > 2012/6/10 Uoti Urpala wrote: > > You've posted blatantly false claims. If you post claims like "1+1 > > equals 2 because the moon is made of cheese", then you're a moron, even > > if 1+1 does equal 2. > > (I like this example :)) It could be, it's impossible to know everything > in

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Philipp Kern > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:46:57PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:12:11PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >]] Stephan Seitz > > >>Will Wheezy support SSDs out of the box with all trimming functions, > > >>even if your SSD partition is using LUKS and

Bug#676969: ITP: python-unshare -- Python bindings for the Linux unshare() syscall

2012-06-10 Thread Martín Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martín Ferrari" * Package name: python-unshare Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : "Martín Ferrari" * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-unshare/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python, C Description : Python

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:31:21PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Well, nice to hear, but I thought, discard was needed in all layers, > so in my example in LUKS, then in LVM and then in the filesystem. Or > is his only a function you activate via hdparm? It's available in all layers, but as Tol

Re: gnome is completely f^Mmessed up

2012-06-10 Thread Luke Cycon
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:15:42 +0900 Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > is this only me or do I have the feeling that we are going down > the trench with Gnome? > Repeatedly: > - first login: nautilus segfaults in libnautilus-fileroller.so > after log out and log in it sometimes works >

Re: [xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#676686: libxslt1.1: libxslt1.1 binNMU broke multi-arch installability

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Philipp Kern (pk...@debian.org) [120610 14:06]: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 01:52:24PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > Perhaps we could add the binNMU entry for the moment and fix the rest > > later? Or whatever would make you more happy. Just I'd like to be able > > to schedule binNMUs again on ma

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap?

2012-06-10 Thread Vincent Bernat
Thomas Goirand writes: > Let's put it this way: I can't run Virtualbox AND > Firefox at the same time, or my laptop becomes unusably > slow and non responsive. > > Am I the only one who experienced that? Is there something > I didn't understand, or is it Virtualbox that has a problem? I have the

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Andreas Barth
* Raphael Hertzog (hert...@debian.org) [120610 20:44]: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > > As such, I suggest that we handle "binary rebuild" differently: > > > - debian/changelog is left unmodified since it's the source changelog > > > => it define

Re: Is it me or virtualbox memory management crap? (was: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless)

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Thomas Goirand wrote: > Let's put it this way: I can't run Virtualbox AND > Firefox at the same time, or my laptop becomes unusably > slow and non responsive. Do you use 2.6 kernel and have FF profile and VB images on the same ext4 partition? Can you reproduce that with 3.2 kernel? PS:

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Charles Plessy
> >>> Some people asked for a thread summary. So here it is. > >> Seriously, can't you even read what's written to you? > > > > Yes, I know it was a biased summary. > > I think you might start to piss off a few people now... > > Look at what you are quoting above. You introduced your biased summa

Re: Handling of changelogs and bin-nmus

2012-06-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Andreas Barth wrote: > Do we have other tools than dpkg that parse the changelog to find out > the package version? Yes, debian/rules parses the changelog in a low-tech way in some source packages. Someone with access to the lintian lab might be able to say how many packages would be hurt by not

Bug#677000: ITP: python-passfd -- Python extension to pass file descriptors across UNIX domain sockets

2012-06-10 Thread Martín Ferrari
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Martín Ferrari" * Package name: python-passfd Version : 0.2 Upstream Author : "Martín Ferrari" * URL : http://code.google.com/p/python-passfd/ * License : GPLv2 Programming Lang: Python, C. Description : Python

Re: Summary: Moving /tmp to tmpfs makes it useless

2012-06-10 Thread Serge
2012/6/10 Uoti Urpala wrote: >> What false claim are you talking about? > > The problem is that you've posted quite a few of those false claims [...] > For example, the page you linked for your "SSDs can take 50 years > of writing before they wear out" claim has a first paragraph saying > durabili