Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-14 Thread Christoph Biedl
Paul Wise wrote... > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > In 5.18, upstream decided to discourage usage of smart matches and > > given..when after these have existed since 5.10 (or: more than six > > years) by marking them as experimental, and did this in a very harsh > >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 11:06:10AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Thorsten Glaser writes: • no /etc/init.d/$foo (to tabcomplete, no less!) any more I've been telling people to stop using this for years. You should stop Doesn’t matter in mixed environments. Suse SLES11 has the service command a

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Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Johannes Schauer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johannes Schauer * Package name: botch Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Johannes Schauer * URL : https://gitorious.org/debian-bootstrap/pages/Home * License : LGPL3+ with OCaml linking exception Programming Lang: OCaml,

Re: Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > - shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations > - analyzing cross bootstrap phase > - analyzing native bootstrap phase > - create a transition order cool. Can this also be used in a relative

Re: Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:39:41PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > > - shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations > > - analyzing cross bootstrap phase > > - analyzing native bootstrap phase > >

Re: Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 14:15 +0300 schrieb Niko Tyni: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:39:41PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 11:39 +0200 schrieb Johannes Schauer: > > > - shell scripts connecting the tools for meaningful operations > > > - analyzing cr

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Guile language support in make"): > Russ Allbery wrote: > >I think building two separate binaries makes more sense than adding Guile > >support by default for all the reasons you stated. We do similar things > >with Emacs, which has a -nox version to avoid pulling in to

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes ("Re: Guile language support in make"): > Well, I was thinking of build profiles for that. (Lesson for me: read the whole thread first.) > I know I can't do that until Jess is released and dpkg 1.17.2 is > in stable. Is it acceptable to put off providing

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Guillem Jover
On Wed, 2014-05-14 at 13:20:32 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > (It's a shame that the dpkg developers didn't adopt my suggestion of > [ ] for build-profiles, because that would have been > backward-compatible with old tools.) One of the reasons [0] it was not adopted was precisely because it is not ba

Re: Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Joachim Breitner (2014-05-14 12:39:41) > cool. Can this also be used in a relative ad-hoc manner to replace the > simple script at > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-haskell/tools.git;a=blob;f=order-sources.pl > which does > > Usage: $0 ... > > Each a

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 04:31:28PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 13 May 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > My opinion is that many users are migrating away from Debian because we > > are unable to make decisions on important technical topics and leave > > them with 3 different setups, n

Re: Bug#748102: ITP: botch -- Bootstrapping helper

2014-05-14 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Niko Tyni (2014-05-14 13:15:59) > Heh. FWIW we've been using > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-perl/scripts.git;a=blob;f=perl-5.10-transition/find-rebuild-order > > for transition ordering when preparing Perl transitions. That one uses > the system apt cache. I wonder if the P

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 01:16:05PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes ("Re: Guile language support in make"): >> Russ Allbery wrote: >> >I think building two separate binaries makes more sense than adding Guile >> >support by default for all the reasons you stated. We do similar thin

Re: Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-14 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 8 May 2014 19:16, Frank Bauer wrote: > Unfortunately, the userspace tools (nftables) are still missing even in > sid/experimental. Just to let you know: nftables is now on Debian [0]. Comments are welcome :) [0] http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/nftables.html -- Arturo Borrero González -- T

position independent executable issue

2014-05-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, for one of the Debian package that I maintained, bibtool to name it, it appears that the added option -pie (aka --pic-executable) caused some issue: #747519 While the upstream source is not subject to the reported bug, adding the hardening options renders the upstream source subject

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:48:12PM +, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 12:00:55AM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > > On 29/04/14 23:22, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > If there is any more you can tell me about this DNS zone, it would be > > nice to document it better at https://wiki

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Russ Allbery: > > How difficult would it be, for the sake of compatibility if nothing > > else, to teach su not to create a new PAM session when it doesn't > > already run within one? > > You don't want to do that in general since that defeats the primary > purpose of su: creating a new sessi

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > • no /etc/init.d/$foo (to tabcomplete, no less!) any more > Why you think these are going away? They're not, not any time soon; and you can still use them when you're running systemd (assuming that you include the LSB functions, like init.d/skeleton has been advising you fo

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > OK. But who says this is to stay? The systemd developers are > hostile towards legacy stuff in a really intricate way. Take > not jornal here but something else as example: they support > running both ntpd and their own thing, to sweeten the deal > now, but plan on dropping

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thorsten Glaser: > There’s not really a line between them, you know. (But it was > nice to have a published list of those people who maybe could > accidentally be hit by a tactical small-bus…) > I hereby apologize to the list at large for replying to your earlier emails. *PLONK*. -- -- Mat

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, May 14 2014, Ian Jackson wrote: >> I know I can't do that until Jess is released and dpkg 1.17.2 is >> in stable. > > Is it acceptable to put off providing a guile-enabled make.deb until > jessie+1 ? Talking to various people I was convinced I was overthinking this, an

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Matthias Urlichs , 2014-05-14, 17:30: In fact, rescuing a system becomes way easier even without learning any magic tools. For example, when bootup breaks you get dropped into a rescue shell, same as before. The difference with systemd is that as soon as you manage to mount that recalcitrant

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/14/2014 12:07 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Matthias Urlichs , 2014-05-14, 17:30: > >> In fact, rescuing a system becomes way easier even without learning >> any magic tools. For example, when bootup breaks you get dropped >> into a rescue shell,

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Matthias Urlichs writes: > I see two cases here. > * I'm a logged-in user and use su to run … whatever. > In this case, whether it creates a new session or not doesn't matter > (because there already is one), so one more cannot add more blockage to > hibernation et al. than there already i

Re: Upgrade troubles with Perl

2014-05-14 Thread Niko Tyni
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:33:58AM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Second, there's a regression in the handling of in-memory file handle. > Broke my code when giving it a first try on jessie. And I am still > *very* upset why #747363 should be anything below RC. I find arguments about bug severit

Re: position independent executable issue

2014-05-14 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:12:09PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > for one of the Debian package that I maintained, bibtool to name it, it > appears that > the added option -pie (aka --pic-executable) caused some issue: #747519 > > While the upstream source is not subject to the re

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 14.05.2014 18:30, schrieb The Wanderer: > On 05/14/2014 12:07 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote: > >> * Matthias Urlichs , 2014-05-14, 17:30: > >>> In fact, rescuing a system becomes way easier even without learning >>> any magic tools. For example, when bootup breaks you get dropped >>> into a rescue shel

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
Don Armstrong writes: > The right solution for these (and other bugs which happen when source > packages are renamed) is for the bugs to follow the new source package > name. > > Eventually this is the way it will work in the BTS, but doing so > requires me to complete the postgresql migration wo

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-14 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Browning writes: > I agree (as far as emacsXY and guile-X.Y are concerned). Anyone should > feel free to reassign them to emacs24 (or guile-2.0 respectively). > > Otherwise, I'll plan to do it. And I hope it goes without saying, but I'm always happy to have help dealing with the bugs -- eve

Re: position independent executable issue

2014-05-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Andrey, thanks for your reply. On 14/05/14 19:51, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:12:09PM +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> for one of the Debian package that I maintained, bibtool to name >> it, it appear

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/05/14 15:25, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > In consultation with the mirror team, I will be dropping the mirror.debian.net > zone, today. Oh, that's unfortunate. And odd to remove the service on such short notice, unless I'm really the only person using it. It may have been preferable to replace

Re: Nftables in jessie?

2014-05-14 Thread Frank Bauer
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > Just to let you know: nftables is now on Debian [0]. Great news! Now I will let this and the fixed kernel 3.14 migrate to jessie and start playing... Frank -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 13 May 2014 20:08:18 +0100, "Adam D. Barratt" wrote: >adam@wheezy:~$ service |[6/505]mh@swivel:~/transfer$ service |.directorykarte4.png |fotovoltaik.png lageplan.png |karte1.pngpdns-backend-mysql_3.1-4.log |karte2.png

Re: Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Raphael Geissert
Hi, On Wednesday 14 May 2014 19:39:52 Steven Chamberlain wrote: [...] > Perhaps even http.debian.net, if Raphael wouldn't mind setting up the > (many) necessary wildcard virtual host to make it work. I don't think there are many users of $cc.$arch.mirror.debian.net, but if anyone fancies adding

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 13 May 2014 17:28:27 +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ? 13 mai 2014 15:01 +0200, Marc Haber  : >>>Thank you so much for volunteering to contribute to GNOME packaging and >>>to make it work on configurations nobody will actually ever use. >>> >>>We are eagerly waiting for your patches. >> >>

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/05/14 22:24, Raphael Geissert wrote: > I don't think there are many users of $cc.$arch.mirror.debian.net, [...] I don't think anyone can really know this currently? > but if > anyone fancies adding the DNS entries, http.d.n should now be accepting > anything with *.mirror.debian.net, and

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:39:39PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 14/05/14 22:24, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > I don't think there are many users of $cc.$arch.mirror.debian.net, [...] > > I don't think anyone can really know this currently? I looked at the logs on ns1.debian.org through ns4

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/05/14 23:00, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > I looked at the logs on ns1.debian.org through ns4.debian.org for the last > week. Not a single request that wasn't for SOA or RRSIG or DNSKEY, all from > debian machines. > > Some may have gone to easydns' name servers, I suppose, but the debian > namese

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Luca Filipozzi
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:32:07PM +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > On 14/05/14 23:00, Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > I looked at the logs on ns1.debian.org through ns4.debian.org for the last > > week. Not a single request that wasn't for SOA or RRSIG or DNSKEY, all from > > debian machines. > > > >

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Roger Lynn
On 13/05/14 20:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: > In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto: >> > service foo works across Linux distributions, with or without >> > systemd, and does the right thing. >> >> The big shame with service is that tab completion does not work proper

Re: mirror.debian.net down?

2014-05-14 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 14/05/14 23:34, Luca Filipozzi wrote: >> In the last week at least 13 of my own servers/VMs at two sites (each >> site has a caching DNS resolver), my desktop and also my laptop from >> offsite have been querying this zone, every day. I debootstrapped a new >> chroot using this zone only two da

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Roger Lynn writes: > On 13/05/14 20:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >> In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto: service foo works across Linux distributions, with or without systemd, and does the right thing. >>> The big shame with service is that tab completio

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
+++ Manoj Srivastava [2014-05-10 23:00 -0700]: > > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> > On Sun, May 11 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Thinking about the poor people trying to bootstrap things, I'm tempted > > to suggest doing this as two separate source packages. Make is *so* > > far down the

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-14 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Wookey wrote: > I'm not quite sure who actually controls these things That would be the stable release team, the processes for uploads to stable are documented here: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable -- bye, pabs ht

arm64 update - help wanted

2014-05-14 Thread Wookey
The debian-port arm64 rebootstrap is progressing nicely, and we just passed 4200 source packages built, with another few hundred pending. There are now 2 buildds running. In the course of that 344 have failed to build, (see http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/architecture.php?a=arm64&suite=sid

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: > Roger Lynn writes: >> On 13/05/14 20:30, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: >>> In data martedì 13 maggio 2014 19:42:32, David Goodenough ha scritto: > > service foo works across Linux distributions, with or without > systemd, and does the right

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Jordan Metzmeier writes: > It's not loaded from /etc/profile by default (which would probably > throw errors with other shells since all login shells source > /etc/profile). It is for me, via: if [ -d /etc/profile.d ]; then for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh; do if [ -r $i ]; then . $i