Bug#732837: ITP: vcversioner -- Use version control tags to discover version numbers

2013-12-22 Thread Nicolas Dandrimont
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nicolas Dandrimont * Package name: vcversioner Version : 1.13.0.0 Upstream Author : Aaron Gallagher <_...@habnabit.org> * URL : https://github.com/habnabit/vcversioner * License : ISC Programming Lang: Python Descript

Re: Bug#732810: ITP: libtap-simpleoutput-perl -- simple closure-driven TAP generator

2013-12-22 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2013-12-22 00:13, gregor herrmann wrote: * Package name: libtap-simpleoutput-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Chris Weyl * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/TAP-SimpleOutput * License : LGPL-2.1 Programming Lang: Perl Description : simple clo

Re: Bug#732810: ITP: libtap-simpleoutput-perl -- simple closure-driven TAP generator

2013-12-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 14:07:00 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > >* Package name: libtap-simpleoutput-perl > > Description : simple closure-driven TAP generator > > > >TAP::SimpleOutput provides one function, counters(), that returns > >a number of > >simple closures designed to help output TAP

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-22 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 19:31, Russ Allbery wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > On 2013-12-21 18:04:19 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > >> That said, the display managers in Debian other than kdm and gdm are not > >> ready for systemd at the moment. I had to switch to gdm3 to use systemd > >> (by whic

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-22 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 28 November 2013 20:04, Niels Thykier wrote: > * Architecture Status >* ia64 in danger >* sparc/ppc/mips/kfreebsd at risk >* s390 dropped from testing Is "ppc" - powerpc or ppc64? Is ppc64 looking healthy enought to become a release architecture for jessie? What about x32? Is it g

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-22 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Dimitri John Ledkov (2013-12-22): > On 28 November 2013 20:04, Niels Thykier wrote: > > * Architecture Status > >* ia64 in danger > >* sparc/ppc/mips/kfreebsd at risk > >* s390 dropped from testing > > Is "ppc" - powerpc or ppc64? powerpc. (For ppc64, same answer as below.) > Is p

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-22 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 22 décembre 2013 14:41 CET, "Milan P. Stanic"  : > Really odd. With my testing/unstable installation on amd64 and armhf > (Asus TF101 tablet) systemd and lightdm combo works without any problem > for nearly a year. I am also using lightdm + systemd because slimd has some problems when started

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
"Milan P. Stanic" writes: > Really odd. With my testing/unstable installation on amd64 and armhf > (Asus TF101 tablet) systemd and lightdm combo works without any problem > for nearly a year. It's possible I had some local configuration issue of which I was unaware. I'll probably give it another

Bug#732921: ITP: pyviennacl -- Python bindings for ViennaCL linear algebra library

2013-12-22 Thread Toby Smithe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toby Smithe * Package name: pyviennacl Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Toby Smithe * URL : http://viennacl.sourceforge.net/pyviennacl.html * License : MIT Programming Lang: C++, Python Description : Python bind

GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
Hello, Debian ist still relying heavily on GnuTLS 2.12.x, and I do not think this is sustainable for much longer. State of Play: - In July 2011 with version 3.0 [1] GnuTLS switched to Nettle as only supported crypto backend. Nettle requires GMP. GnuTLS and Nettle are available under LGPL

init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
This email is not so much about the change of init system but just about the multiple-instance problem, regardless of which init we use. It is not a huge hassle but it is something that could be handled more smoothly. Some packages provide a way to start multiple instances in one shot from their

XBMC packaging (was: Re: Bug#732159: Should this package be removed?)

2013-12-22 Thread Balint Reczey
Hi Felipe, On 12/18/2013 07:10 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote: > On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 00:10:11 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >> Hi Felipe, > > Hi Andreas, > >> >> I did not checked whether xbmc would be compliant to Debian Multimedia >> policy. My statement was written under the assumption that the p

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > How to continue from here/solve this: > - > #1 Fork LGPLv2.1+ GMP (version 4.2.1) for Debian. This seems like the best idea, as it lets us use newer versions of GnuTLS that support elliptic curves with the minimum amount of

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock writes: > This email is not so much about the change of init system but just about > the multiple-instance problem, regardless of which init we use. It is > not a huge hassle but it is something that could be handled more > smoothly. > Some packages provide a way to start multiple

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 22/12/13 21:03, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Pocock writes: > >> This email is not so much about the change of init system but just about >> the multiple-instance problem, regardless of which init we use. It is >> not a huge hassle but it is something that could be handled more >> smoothly.

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
Andreas Metzler schrieb: > #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. (..) > #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian > has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for > GMP. We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by running

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Daniel Pocock writes: > Just to clarify: does this mean systemd and upstart can refer to the > instances collectively or individually as required? E.g. you can tell > it restart all instances of httpd (on dpkg upgrade) or just restart one > specific instance (after a config change)? It looks li

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Moritz Mühlenhoff writes: > Andreas Metzler schrieb: >> #5 Declare GMP to be a system library. > (..) >> #5 was how Fedora looked at the OpenSSL library issue. Since Debian >> has another viewpoint on OpenSSL I somehow doubt we would use it for >> GMP. > We should do that (and also reevaluate

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 19:52 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > How to continue from here/solve this: > > - > > #1 Fork LGPLv2.1+ GMP (version 4.2.1) for Debian. > > This seems like the best idea, as it lets us use newer ver

gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Svante Signell
severity 724731 serious thanks Hi, This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still borked. lightdm is the rescue here: this is the _third_ box showing the same problem :( Logging in works, but the screen is frozen, e,g, iconizin

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 12/22/2013 11:22 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 > together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still borked. Could you be more specific, please? I'm using gdm3 without any issues all the time on two different machines running unsta

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > severity 724731 serious > thanks > > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 > together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still borked. Debian-devel is not a user support forum. If you cannot deal

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 23:30 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > > severity 724731 serious > > thanks > > > > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 > > together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still

Bug#732944: ITP: libemail-sender-transport-smtps-perl -- Perl module for sending mail via SSL/TLS

2013-12-22 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: libemail-sender-transport-smtps-perl Version : 0.02 Upstream Author : Fayland Lam * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Emai

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Svante Signell
reopen 724731 thanks On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 23:30 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 12/22/2013 11:22 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 > > together with gnome, meaning that gdm3 is still borked. > > Could you be more speci

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
Le 22 déc. 2013 22:00, "Ben Hutchings" a écrit : > > On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 19:52 +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:12:40PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > How to continue from here/solve this: > > > - > > > #1 Fork LGPLv2.1+ GMP (version 4.2.1) for Debian. >

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by > running it by the Software Freedom Law Center. > > Red Hat has real lawyers who looked into the issue, we should do the > same. Agreed, Debian has been promoting bad decisions due to deve

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:48:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > upstart calls this "instances" and systemd calls this "unit > templates". We too call them instances: an instance is created from a template. > Daniel Pocock writes: > > > Just to clarify: does this mean systemd and upstart can refe

Re: Release sprint results - team changes, auto-rm and arch status

2013-12-22 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 22 December 2013 16:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Dimitri John Ledkov (2013-12-22): >> On 28 November 2013 20:04, Niels Thykier wrote: >> > * Architecture Status >> >* ia64 in danger >> >* sparc/ppc/mips/kfreebsd at risk >> >* s390 dropped from testing >> >> Is "ppc" - powerpc or

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: > But this should be safe for instance units, so I'd like to see > 'systemctl stop/status/... server@*.service' implemented. That would be very useful for distribution packagers. If, for example, you support a multiple-instance Tomcat configuration (which is

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > > We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by > > running it by the Software Freedom Law Center. > > Red Hat has real lawyers who looked into the issue, we should do the

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek writes: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Dec 22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: >>> We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by >>> running it by the Software Freedom Law Center. >>> Red Hat has real lawyers who looked into t

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Shawn Wilson
My gut reaction was that #5 or #6 are the best option (leaning to #6). However I guess I don't understand what making something a system library effects the license? Andreas Metzler wrote: >Hello, > >Debian ist still relying heavily on GnuTLS 2.12.x, and I do not think >this is sustainable for

Re: gdm3: still buggy!

2013-12-22 Thread Nikolaus Rath
Svante Signell writes: > On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 23:30 +0100, Michael Banck wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:22:35PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: >> > severity 724731 serious >> > thanks >> > >> > This is really becoming an issue: I still cannot run the latest gdm3 >> > together with

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-12-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-12-22 09:31:09 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Milan P. Stanic" writes: > > Really odd. With my testing/unstable installation on amd64 and armhf > > (Asus TF101 tablet) systemd and lightdm combo works without any problem > > for nearly a year. > > It's possible I had some local configuratio

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Faidon Liambotis
On 12/23/13 02:15, Steve Langasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:25:40AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: On Dec 22, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: We should do that (and also reevaluate the position wrt OpenSSL) by running it by the Software Freedom Law Center. Red Hat has real lawyers who looked

Re: Bug#727708: init multiple instances of a daemon

2013-12-22 Thread Adrien Clerc
Le 23/12/2013 00:37, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit : It looks like both upstart and systemd don't provide direct mechanisms to manage all instances. That's true (I'm only speaking about systemd). There have been requests for such functionality before, but nothing was implemented. But I thi

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2013-12-22 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2013-12-22 Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > In July 2011 with version 3.0 [1] GnuTLS switched to Nettle as only > supported crypto backend. Nettle requires GMP. > GnuTLS and Nettle are available under LGPLv2.1+. GMP used to be > licensed LGPLv2.1+ ages ago but upgraded to LGPLv3+ in version 4.2