Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-17 Thread envite
Sorry for top-posting Installing both is a waste of bandwidth (for netinst) and disk space. There are lovers of both, but most desktop users will never see any of the two. Having one easy text editor in command line is necessary. Both nano or joe will make that target. None of emacs nor vi does

Bug#761948: ITP: libsolv -- dependency solver using a satisfiability algorithm

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: libsolv Version : 0.6.5 Upstream Author : Michael Schröder (https://github.com/mlschroe) * URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: C Descripti

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-17 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 16 septembre 2014, 23.17:51 Joerg Jaspert a écrit : > On 13698 March 1977, Didier Raboud wrote: > >> > One thought... there will probably be trademark concerns with > >> > "unix".[1] So we might have to choose a name for the tasksel task > >> > to be someting like "unix-like". > >> > >>

Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 08:31 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > Tagged the bug moreinfo, over the next months I will look at existing > hardcoding, consult with service maintainers and try to come up with a > spec on the RepositoryFormat page about what data is needed. ftp-masters seem to be open to the id

Re: Bug#761348: ftp.debian.org: need machine-readable metadata about suites & repositories

2014-09-17 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Paul Wise wrote: > ftp-masters seem to be open to the idea but want a spec for what data > needs to be exported where. > > I would like to invite service maintainers and maintainers of derivative > distros to document what info they hard-code from the Debian archive and > thei

Re: Aborting installation on unsupported systems

2014-09-17 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 04:37:00PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Well, depends on how strict you want that parsing to be: > > grep -q '^flags.*\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo "SSE2 possible" > > This is good enough on i686 and x86-64, as the architecture itself does not > tolerate any diff

Re: rc bugs

2014-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Brian May writes ("rc bugs"): > Lets say there is a bug in a package X, however package X is still usable > by itself. > > However package Y depends on package X, and as a result of this bug it was > an RC bug. > > Is the bug against package X also RC? The question you are really asking, surely,

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Jackson Doak writes ("Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?"): > The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using > it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all > builders. Just something to consider I think dropping the package from i386 i

Re: Trimming priority:standard

2014-09-17 Thread Ian Jackson
Theodore Ts'o writes ("Re: Trimming priority:standard"): > That being said, if there are Debian users who are not Unix-heads, > they aren't going to miss any of these. What if we create a tasksel > task called "Unix" that installs these traditional Unix commands from > the BSD 4.x era? It would i

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-17 Thread Sébastien Villemot
Le mercredi 17 septembre 2014 à 14:29 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit : > Jackson Doak writes ("Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?"): > > The package infernal has also dropped i386 support for this reason. Using > > it's example, this can cause issues for downstreams with i386 arch:all > > bui

Bug#761988: ITP: libzypp -- openSUSE/SLES package management system library

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: libzypp Version : 14.29.1 Upstream Author : Michael Andres (https://github.com/mlandres) * URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/libzypp * License : GPL-2(+), Expat, Zlib Programming Lang: C++

Bug#761990: ITP: zypper -- command line software manager using libzypp

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Gabriel
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Mike Gabriel * Package name: zypper Version : 1.11.13 Upstream Author : Michael Andres (https://github.com/mlandres) * URL : https://github.com/openSUSE/zypper * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C++ Description

Installing debian-security-support by default

2014-09-17 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Hi, during the last security team meeting we decided that starting with jessie debian-security-support should be installed by default on all systems (both freshly installed and upgraded) to have a reliable notification channel in case security supports needs to be ended prior to the lifetime of t

Re: Can a leaf package require SSE2 on i386?

2014-09-17 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2014-09-17 15:47, Sébastien Villemot wrote: Concerning the buildd, I now realize that the package really needs SSE2 support at build time. The reason is that, Julia being a JIT-compiler, it is run at build time to create the binary image of its standard library. I'll see if that creates proble

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.6.0 released

2014-09-17 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Bill Allombert dixit: > 10.1 > Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library, > see policy for exceptions. It says there that exceptions *may* be granted, but not by whom. So, who can grant an exception for the (already existing) /bin/mksh-static file (which

Bug#762034: ITP: node-hicat -- cat with syntax highlighting.

2014-09-17 Thread Leo Iannacone
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Leo Iannacone X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-hicat Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Rico Sta. Cruz * URL : https://github.com/rstacruz/hicat * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaSc

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.6.0 released

2014-09-17 Thread Josh Triplett
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Bill Allombert dixit: > > 10.1 > > Binaries must not be statically linked with the GNU C library, > > see policy for exceptions. > > It says there that exceptions *may* be granted, but not by whom. > > So, who can grant an exception for the (already

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.6.0 released

2014-09-17 Thread gustavo panizzo (gfa)
On 09/18/2014 02:41 AM, Bill Allombert wrote: . 4.4 It is clarified that signature appearing in debian/changelog should be the details of the person who prepared this release of the package. what does it mean for a team maintained packages? should the u

Re: Installing debian-security-support by default

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Does anyone have a better suggestion? What about just bumping the Priority? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Debian Policy 3.9.6.0 released

2014-09-17 Thread Russ Allbery
"gustavo panizzo (gfa)" writes: > On 09/18/2014 02:41 AM, Bill Allombert wrote: >> 4.4 >>It is clarified that signature appearing in debian/changelog >>should be the details of the person who prepared this release of >>the package. > what does it mean fo