Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Thu, 29 Aug 2013, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > Is there a reason why we couldn't have incoming.d.o apt-able without > > lowering the dinstall frequency? > > That is also possible, however fewer dinstall runs mean less data to > push to mirrors and to archive on sna

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Bernd Zeimetz writes: > On 08/29/2013 12:13 AM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> Lucas Nussbaum writes: >>> Is there a reason why we couldn't have incoming.d.o apt-able without >>> lowering the dinstall frequency? >> >> That is also possible, however fewer dinstall runs mean less data to >> push to mi

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Am 29.08.2013 09:38, schrieb Raphael Hertzog: Can we separate dinstall and pushing to the mirrors ? Yes we can, but I don't see the need for dinstall without pushing the mirrors. The reason why we want to keep dinstall running often are notably: - closing bug earlier Not needed. Happens

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:38:55 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > The reason why we want to keep dinstall running often are notably: > - closing bug earlier bugs are closed in cron.unchecked, which runs every 15 minutes. > - informing users/developers earlier that updates are available (even >

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Luca Falavigna
2013/8/29 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : > Can dinstall be run every hour please? For me, if anything dinstall is > not frequent enough. No, dinstall takes more than an hour to finish... > If it takes longer than hour to execute, can it be optimised and sped up? ... and even if it can be reduced, there are

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Tue Aug 27, 2013 at 02:11:56 +0200, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 08/26/2013 12:33 PM, Neil McGovern wrote: > > I'm hoping that these raising of hands are also offers to help do the > > work to make it happen. > > > Guys, if you want it to happen, raise your hands *now* like Gustavo did. > O

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 29 August 2013 10:55, Luca Falavigna wrote: > 2013/8/29 Dmitrijs Ledkovs : >> Can dinstall be run every hour please? For me, if anything dinstall is >> not frequent enough. > > No, dinstall takes more than an hour to finish... > Ok. >> If it takes longer than hour to execute, can it be optimi

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi Is incoming.debian.org mirrored? From my end (UK) it looks like it's hosted in the USA, well 17 hops away with a ~10% packet loss along the way (could be blocked mtr/pings) Its not, what should it be mirrored for currently. Thats part of this thread, if we make it apt-able, THEN it will

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Dmitrijs Ledkovs > Is incoming.debian.org mirrored? No. > Can incoming be mirrored on e.g. eu & jp UploadQueue boxes? We'd probably not set up mirroring of it, no. We'd make it more easily available through other means, as outlined in the initial mail. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user fri

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-29 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > I am raising my hand here. I am willing to support the debian security > team. I will be able to do that during my paid work time, as my > employer, credativ, is backing this. > > Mid-term goal should be a Debian LTS version, but we can

to those who want to support Debian longer...

2013-08-29 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, please start with helping supporting the current stable release better: http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi?release=wheezy&rc=1 shows 255 RC bugs in wheezy, just four months after this counter was basically at zero. Output from my (sadly currently still "internal") tool: $ udd-tracker.sh udd-

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday 28 August 2013 22:58:03 Joerg Jaspert wrote: > * Have incoming.debian.org be an apt-able location (actually the buildd >locations, so it is suite/archive specific, not one global queue)[1] Are the package signatures verified at this point ? All the best -- https://github.com/

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Luca Falavigna
2013/8/29 Dominique Dumont : > Are the package signatures verified at this point ? Yes. Packages are listed in incoming.d.o after they have been accepted by dak. Cheers, Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Update policies for security bugs [Was, Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian]

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Update policies for security bugs [Was, Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian]"): > I don't think this is incompatible with my contention that updates for > security bugs should be driven by the security team. If we think a security > fix should not be pushed *immediately* to users,

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Raphael Hertzog writes ("Re: Less dinstall FTW?"): > It's probably a good idea to run dinstall more often but to push to > mirrors only once or twice a day. That would probably imply keeping > already processed packages for an entire day on incoming.d.o as well > so that they don't disappear there

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Adam Borowski writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): > Let's take a look at some sheets. Last time I looked at this I found a copy of the actual ASCII standards document from 1968 or so and it did mention this usage. > > I don't think that better UTF-8 support should involve needlessly > > converting 7-

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:33:38PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > > Anyhow, I doubt we can reasonably expect to maintain *all* packages for a > > longer > > period. How about starting with a defined list of packages that we do care > > about in

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, as I have seen some confusion what this change means in practice and most answers ignored the second part of the proposal, here are some more explanations: dinstall and unchecked runs --- The archive processes uploads every 15 minutes ("cron.unchecked"). At this time

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ian Jackson (2013-08-29 13:56:09) > Adam Borowski writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): > > Let's take a look at some sheets. > > Last time I looked at this I found a copy of the actual ASCII > standards document from 1968 or so and it did mention this usage. > > > > I don't think that better

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > I don't want to build packages using local apt repository of uploads, > since e.g. I don't want to upload something that was build against > earlier uploaded $foo, which got rejected by ftp-masters for example. > Currently, it's sometim

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > The open question is if having earlier (easy) access to uploads is > worthwhile or That would only make sense if buildds would be given access to i.d.o, and I consider this to be very dangerous (so I am not proposing this, juste mention

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Uoti Urpala
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > In comparison the changing part of unstable: > > $ du -shc dists/unstable/*/{binary-*,source,Contents*.gz} | tail -1 > 665Mtotal > > So having two dinstall runs per day compared to four would reduce the > amount of changes by roughly 1.3 GB per day. Mirrors also

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 04:33:38PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Michael Meskes > wrote: > > > Anyhow, I doubt we can reasonably expect to maintain *all* packages > for a > > > longer > > > period. How abou

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ian Jackson wrote: > Please let's not do this. Doing this would mean that after an upload > there would be an even longer period where the archive database says > that sid has version X but in fact it's difficult to find a copy of > version X anywhere because the main archive and mirrors still hav

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Ansgar Burchardt writes ("Re: Less dinstall FTW?"): > as I have seen some confusion what this change means in practice and > most answers ignored the second part of the proposal, here are some more > explanations: Thank you for the clear explanation. I'm much less confused. > The latter is proba

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): > I believe the underlying issue is the one summarized here: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter_apostrophe#ASCII_encoding Yes. > How about we simply mention explicitly that `arcane quoting' - even if > arguably related to UTF-8 encoding,

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread James McCoy
On Aug 29, 2013 10:30 AM, "Ondřej Surý" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> >> The open question is if having earlier (easy) access to uploads is >> worthwhile or > > > That would only make sense if buildds would be given access to i.d.o, and I consider this to

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Now there are those of us who think that this is against "the spirit" of > having multiple dinstalls and that having apt-able incoming repositories > will only lead to people with "versionitis" repeatedly abuse apt-get > update, and not actually help development significantly

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:08:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I am disturbed by the repeated use of this disparaging "versionitis" term > in this thread. > > Wanting to be able to rapidly iterate as we develop a very complicated Key word: we The issue is, users will think "Oh sure, this'll be a g

Bug#721267: ITP: iwsy -- Analyze #includes in C and C++ source files

2013-08-29 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sylvestre Ledru * Package name: iwsy Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : Dean Sturtevant * URL : http://code.google.com/p/include-what-you-use/ * License : University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License Programming Lang: C

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Joey Hess, le Thu 29 Aug 2013 12:08:09 -0400, a écrit : > I am disturbed by the repeated use of this disparaging "versionitis" term > in this thread. > > Wanting to be able to rapidly iterate as we develop a very complicated > distribution is not "verionitis". The word is not about that usage, bu

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > The more interesting part of the proposal has so far been ignored by > most replies: we would make the incoming.d.o archive public. This would > mean all new uploads are available after ~15 minutes via APT, a lot > faster than the current interval between dinstall runs. >

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > Key word: we > > The issue is, users will think "Oh sure, this'll be a great way to get > packages! Faster is better, right?" Users are part of the development and testing infrastructure of Debian. (Disparaging our users is another problem some of us seem to have..) --

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Ian Jackson (2013-08-29 18:03:22) > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): >> I believe the underlying issue is the one summarized here: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter_apostrophe#ASCII_encoding > > Yes. > >> How about we simply mention explicitly that `arcane quoti

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:33:26PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Users are part of the development and testing infrastructure of Debian. > > (Disparaging our users is another problem some of us seem to have..) While I agree in general, this is *not* a slight against our users. I would never dare. Seri

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): > Quoting Ian Jackson (2013-08-29 18:03:22) > > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): > >> I believe the underlying issue is the one summarized here: > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter_apostrophe#ASCII_encoding ... > My aim was

Re: UTF-8 in jessie

2013-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Ian Jackson writes: > Jonas Smedegaard writes ("Re: UTF-8 in jessie"): >> How about we simply mention explicitly that `arcane quoting' - even if >> arguably related to UTF-8 encoding, should be classified not as >> release-critical bugs but as spelling errors. > I don't think it is a bug. What

Re: to those who want to support Debian longer...

2013-08-29 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Holger Levsen schrieb: > please start with helping supporting the current stable release better: Indeed, actions speak louder than words. Here's four specific packages, where the security team could need some help for an oldstable-security update: - mysql-5.1 needs to be updated to 5.1.71 - Seve

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Ondřej Surý
Thanks for pointing this out, I have missed it on first read. In that case I still don't see a strong reason why to have a public apt-getable i.d.o. Ondřej Surý > On 29. 8. 2013, at 18:06, James McCoy wrote: > > > On Aug 29, 2013 10:30 AM, "Ondřej Surý" wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 a

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:21:43PM +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > I don't want to build packages using local apt repository of uploads, > > since e.g. I don't want to upload something that was build against > > earlier uploaded $foo, whi

Re: Longer maintainance for (former) stable releases of Debian (Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian)

2013-08-29 Thread gustavo panizzo
On 08/27/2013 06:53 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > stable. Having a team of people like Mike, Michael, Gustavo, me, etc > to take care of EVERY package is plain impossible, especially if we > want 5 years i didn't say EVERY package i say the packages we care about we simply don't have the manp

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13318 March 1977, Uoti Urpala wrote: >> So maybe 3293-3926 MB per day, i.e. about half of the actual package >> changes. > Could dinstall frequency vary by architecture? Most of the benefit in > frequent dinstall runs comes from AMD64, but most of the cost comes from > unimportant architectures

Re: Less dinstall FTW?

2013-08-29 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 13318 March 1977, Ondřej Surý wrote: >> The open question is if having earlier (easy) access to uploads is >> worthwhile or > That would only make sense if buildds would be given access to i.d.o, and I > consider this to be very dangerous (so I am not proposing this, juste > mentioning it). Yo

Work-needing packages report for Aug 30, 2013

2013-08-29 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: 532 (new: 8) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 149 (new: 0) Total number of packages request

Bug#721289: ITP: libapp-fatpacker-perl -- module to pack dependencies onto script files

2013-08-29 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libapp-fatpacker-perl Version : 0.009018 Upstream Author : Karen Etheridge * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/App-FatPack

Bug#721290: ITP: libmodule-reader-perl -- module to read the source of a module like perl does

2013-08-29 Thread gregor herrmann
Package: wnpp Owner: gregor herrmann Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libmodule-reader-perl Version : 0.002000 Upstream Author : Graham Knop * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Module-Reader *

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-08-29 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Vincent Bernat's message of 2013-06-01 03:24:02 -0700: > ❦ 1 juin 2013 00:44 CEST, Steve Langasek  : > > >> start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo) > >> stop on runlevel [016] > > > > FYI, it's strongly recommended to use 'start on runlevel [2345]' here as the > >

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-29 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Russ Allbery's message of 2013-08-27 13:47:01 -0700: > Clint Byrum writes: > > > Perhaps you missed the blog post [1] details? > > > "About ten months ago, we realized that the next installation of Debian > > was upcoming, and after upgrading about 20,000 machines since Debian 6 >

Re: Custom Reload command/signal in upstart

2013-08-29 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from John Paul Adrian Glaubitz's message of 2013-06-01 03:52:51 -0700: > On 06/01/2013 12:24 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > > I don't know how systemd behaves in this way (so this is not something > > to hold against upstart), but there are so many daemons that need to be > > started after th

Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian

2013-08-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Clint Byrum writes: > Dreamhost is a hosting company. It actually is quite possible that all > 20,000 machines mentioned are unique snowflakes in this case. Though it > is probably more likely that there at most 10,000 unique machines, with > some customers having only one, but others having 3 or