Bug#767881: ITP: python-junit-xml -- Create JUnit XML test result documents.

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Florian Preinstorfer * Package name: python-junit-xml Version : 1.3 Upstream Author : Brian Beyer * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/junit-xml * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Create JUnit

Re: Bug#766880: xscreensaver screensaver don't appear in mate-screensaver

Hi Tormod, (I Cc: debian-devel and debian-release MLs to get more external feedback on this.) On Sa 01 Nov 2014 12:03:05 CET, Tormod Volden wrote: --- screensavers-desktop.stub.old 2014-10-26 15:23:44.826806788 +0100 +++ screensavers-desktop.stub 2014-10-26 15:24:39.322497990 +0100 @@ -2,4

Re: dgit and git-dpm

On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > different as with other NMUs? Where is the difference to Thanks, you described this better than I could. bye, //mirabilos -- 15:41⎜ Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

tracking state of a binary package

How do I reliably inspect the status of a binary package in Debian? Concrete example: Which suites contain iceweasel-l10n-ak? It seems that package exists in Wheezy and Jessie but not Sid. It is listed at but if I follow links to

Re: tracking state of a binary package

On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:44:05 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > How do I reliably inspect the status of a binary package in Debian? rmadison? (devscripts) - it queries UDD, so should be a reliable answer, allowing for synchronisation latency. $ rmadison iceweasel-l10n-ak debian: iceweasel-l10n-a

Re: tracking state of a binary package

Quoting Neil Williams (2014-11-03 10:49:05) > On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:44:05 +0100 > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > >> How do I reliably inspect the status of a binary package in Debian? > > rmadison? Oh, silly me. Had my mind locked onto web pages :-/ Thanks for snapping me out! >> Concrete example

Packages using old dpkg tools paths

Hi! I was notified by Emmanuel Bourg that there are still packages making use of the old compat paths for u-a, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride in /usr/sbin. Those compat symlinks got removed in dpkg 1.17.0: ,--- * Remove update-alternatives, dpkg-divert and dpkg-statoverride compatibili

Bug#767890: ITP: python-getdns -- modern asynchronous DNS API (python bindings)

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ondřej Surý" -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: python-getdns Version : 0.2.0 Upstream Author : Verisign & NlNetLabs * URL : http://getdnsapi.org/ * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

Hello, sorry for resurrecting this post from such a long ago. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: > Ok, I think we need a wider audience - what d-d thinks about it? bonus > points if - in case we come out to add init info to every bug report - > a proper way to retrieve the init r

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

Am 03.11.2014 um 13:21 schrieb Sandro Tosi: > Hello, > sorry for resurrecting this post from such a long ago. > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Ok, I think we need a wider audience - what d-d thinks about it? bonus >> points if - in case we come out to add init info to ev

Re: Bug#741930: reportbug: add current init system information

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 03.11.2014 um 13:21 schrieb Sandro Tosi: >> Hello, >> sorry for resurrecting this post from such a long ago. >> >> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote: >>> Ok, I think we need a wider audience - what d-d thinks about it? bo

Time for a new kernel?

In my opinion, Linux would not be where it is today without Debian. RedHat may have convinced businesses to use Linux, but Debian really convinced everyone else to not only use Linux, but to like it. The decisions Linux kernel devs now make are from the angle of getting and keeping customers. It

Re: Time for a new kernel?

Jeremy, le Mon 03 Nov 2014 09:03:25 -0500, a écrit : > if only the kernel were replaced, the rest would still work as we al > like it to.  (This is evident with Debian GNU Hurd & kFreeBSD projects). It's not so easy :) > We all hear everyone say "The code is open for anyone to look for > exploits

Re: Time for a new kernel?

On Nov 03, Samuel Thibault wrote: > You'll end up with contradictory issues: having driver support and +---+ .:\:\:/:/:. | PLEASE DO NOT |:.:\:\:/:/:.: | FEED THE TROLLS | :=.' - - '.=:

Re: Time for a new kernel?

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Re: mass bug filing about everything-in-usr

Am 02.11.2014 um 03:01 schrieb Marco d'Itri: > > For more information about everything-in-usr please read > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/md/usrmerge.git/tree/debian/README.Debian > Thanks for this initiative, Marco! It would be great to get all those bits into jessie. Michael -- Why is

Re: mass bug filing about everything-in-usr

On Nov 03, Michael Biebl wrote: > Thanks for this initiative, Marco! > It would be great to get all those bits into jessie. Indeed it would be great, because even without the conversion program in jessie then Debian systems could be installed with the new layout and just work without breaking o

Re: Time for a new kernel?

IDEA: To tackle the driver issue & avoiding binary blobs, the project should focus on ONE hardware platform (until the project solidifies, then consider porting). Commodore 64 was immensely successful, and only had one set of hardware to support. Also, look at the success of the Raspberry Pi. Fo

Bug#767944: ITP: jhighlight -- Embeddable Java library for syntax highlighting

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: jhighlight Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Geert Bevin * URL : http://svn.rifers.org/jhighlight * License : LGPL-2.1+ or CDDL-1.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Embeddable Jav

systemd - suggestions for the next version

Dear maintainers, I am running jessie with systemd. As I am using a construction other people might also use, please allow me to suggest some things, you should implement into systemd. My system has /, /boot, /home, /usr and /var on seperated partitions. The partitions /home, /usr and /var are

Re: Time for a new kernel?

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Jeremy wrote: [...] > Also, look at the success of the Raspberry Pi. [...] > Preferably open-source hardware. [...] [...] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/TargetedHardware#Unsuitable -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

I have just made this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the information you have. I have deliberately not listed use in regexps, because regexp engines

Bug#767709: bug is actually with system-monitor extension

This bug actually occurs only when I use the System-monitor extension found here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/120/system-monitor/

Re: mass bug filing about everything-in-usr

On 2014-11-02 03:01 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > I plan to open 10 other bugs like #767710 about packages that install > a symbolic link to a file with the same name in both /bin/ and > /usr/bin/, this way preventing a conversion to everything-in-usr. Thanks for doing that. Have you looked at ca

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

Stephane Chazelas writes ("Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging"): > Just a wee note: ... > > ^ package, name (in apt-get and other libapt-pkg old shells > > users) > [...] > > "old shells" (Thomson, Mashey, Bourne) and new ones: zsh (with > extendedglob), rc, es, aka

moodle_2.7.2-2_all.deb (was: Re: [moodle-packaging] experimental moodle .deb available, problem with gbp import-orig)

Hi, (A similar message was sent to pkg-moodle-maintainers@lists.alioth on Tue, Oct 28.). I am working on packaging Moodle 2.7.2: the one with long-term support (LTS) until May 2017; an extra-long period of support from Moodle HQ for 3 years. Preliminary .deb + source package is (for now) availab

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

2014-11-03 15:40:46 +, Ian Jackson: > I have just made this wiki page: > https://wiki.debian.org/Punctuation [...] Just a wee note: > Character Use in Debian packaging Other important >uses [...] > ^

Re: mass bug filing about everything-in-usr

On Nov 03, Sven Joachim wrote: > Thanks for doing that. Have you looked at cases where _different_ > packages do so? Yes, of the two cases one has been fixed and the other hopefully will be. Until then, there is a Conflicts directive. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signat

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 15:36 +0100, Hans wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > I am running jessie with systemd. As I am using a construction other people > might also use, please allow me to suggest some things, you should implement > into systemd. > > My system has /, /boot, /home, /usr and /var on s

Bug#767950: ITP: vorbis-java -- Ogg and Vorbis toolkit for Java

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Emmanuel Bourg * Package name: vorbis-java Version : 0.6 Upstream Author : Nick Burch * URL : https://github.com/Gagravarr/VorbisJava * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description : Ogg and Vorbis too

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

Hi Ben, > This was implemented in initramfs-tools 0.117. This is not yet in > jessie as these changes led to some serious regressions that have not > all been fixed. But I think we will have this working soon and get it > into jessie. this are great news! I already heard about the improvement o

Bug#767709: marked as done (general: nvidia 340.46-3 + latest jessie updates = periodic GUI hickup)

Your message dated Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:03:09 + with message-id <5457b54d.1010...@debian.org> and subject line Re: Bug#767709: bug is actually with system-monitor extension has caused the Debian Bug report #767709, regarding general: nvidia 340.46-3 + latest jessie updates = periodic GUI hickup

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

On 03/11/14 14:36, Hans wrote: > My system has /, /boot, /home, /usr and /var on seperated partitions. > The partitions /home, /usr and /var are luks-encrypted. Encrypting '/usr' but not '/' doesn't make a great deal of sense; '/' contains critical system libraries (in /lib), system account detail

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

Santiago Vila writes ("Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files"): > I have a laptop with testing which I use mostly on weekends. I have a > partial mirror there, which I try to update as soon as I login into > the system. Firstly, I

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

Hi, Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson: > There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some > corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the > information you have. apt-get supports appending - to a package name in its argument to ins

Re: dgit and git-dpm

Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: dgit and git-dpm"): > To do an NMU, one has to generate a debdiff anyway to post it to the > bug report (as the rules for NMUs mandate). Generating it and reading it are two different things. As I say, I intend for dgit to be able to send the debdiff to the BTS all b

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

On Nov 03, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 03/11/14 14:36, Hans wrote: > > My system has /, /boot, /home, /usr and /var on seperated partitions. > > The partitions /home, /usr and /var are luks-encrypted. > > Encrypting '/usr' but not '/' doesn't make a great deal of sense; '/' > contains critical sy

Re: Punctuation characters in Debian packaging

Quoting Joachim Breitner (2014-11-03 19:12:41) > Am Montag, den 03.11.2014, 15:40 + schrieb Ian Jackson: >> There are probably a lot of things missing. If you know about some >> corner of Debian tooling which has exciting syntax, please add the >> information you have. > > apt-get supports a

Re: A small thanks to the kFreeBSD porters

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:36:26 +, Ian Jackson wrote: [...] > While fixing the bug on a porterbox I got very helpful IRC support Hi Ian, did you get this on a particular channel? If yes, what channel? I also was bugged by a sockopt related FTBFS on kFreeBSD last weekend. I tried my luck o

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

On 2014-11-03 19:05:51 (+0100), Marco d'Itri wrote: > I like to keep advertising over and over the awesome grml-rescueboot > package which automatically provides in GRUB a copy of the awesome GRML > live CD for rescue purposes. > Ooohh! Why did I not know about that? Thanks! -- Kristof --

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:23:37AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Colin Watson >man-db >openssh (U) Thanks, I hadn't realised these paths had changed; I'm fairly sure that maintainer script code dates from a time when dpkg-statoverride was new and it wasn't safe to assume that it was prese

Re: Packages using old dpkg tools paths

On 2014-11-03 11:23, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > [...] > I'm planning on starting to file bug reports for the source packages > below (BCCed). I've not checked (yet) how severe the dpkg-statoverride > ones are, but if most of them do not get fixed, I might consider > reintroducing the compat sy

Re: dgit and git-dpm

* Ian Jackson [141103 19:13]: > The point is that the dgit user probably will have done git diff > before dgit build / push. git diff provides a more convenient diffing > tool than debdiff, and eyeballing the same thing twice is makework. git diff is a nice tool. But it has it limits. Try detect

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 09:20:57PM +0100, Kristof Provost wrote: > On 2014-11-03 19:05:51 (+0100), Marco d'Itri wrote: > > I like to keep advertising over and over the awesome grml-rescueboot > > package which automatically provides in GRUB a copy of the awesome GRML > > live CD for rescue purpo

Re: systemd - suggestions for the next version

Hi, Adam Borowski: > If you can get as far as fully running grub (ie, the partition with /boot > and thus usually / as well is readable), you can as well boot with the > bestest init system Debian has: the mighty /bin/bash! > The key word is "usually". If root is mountable, you could also start s

Re: Re: Arch-dependent files in /usr/share

Russ Allbery: I think it's worth considering whether we should just dump the > Lintian checks for arch-independent files in /usr/lib, and make a > corresponding change to Policy that says that packages are free to > put arch-independent files there. It would as a side-effect make you better al

Re: Bug#752450: ftp.debian.org: please consider to strongly tighten the validity period of Release files

[Dropping the bug, this is beginning to get OT] On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > * We could run a lightweight polling service on Debian infrastructure >which the computer could use to find out how out of date it is. This makes me think of the AMQP stuff DSA has setup as