Re: init system policy

2014-11-23 Thread Edward Betts
Philip Hands wrote: > Not if you take into account the fact that someone will have had to do > something like :wq! to get past the read-only state of the file. > > vim put's a [RO] after the filename when you open it, and says this when > you try to write it: > > E45: 'readonly' option is set

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-23 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Simon McVittie [141122 20:36]: > Perhaps more to the point, Debian's initramfs-generator has been > modified to mount /usr as well as the root, so only systems that have no > initramfs *and* split /usr will get as far as exec()ing systemd without > first mounting /usr (which is a situation consi

Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 05:06:25PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Wouter Verhelst , 2014-11-22, 08:25: > >>It appears that the appropriate resolution of #769106 [1] is to add a > >>new pre-depends on python-minimal in python. > >> > >>This issue at hand is that at the time python2.7-minimal is confi

Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 03:36:36PM +, Neil Williams wrote: > (arm64 & ppc64el are both release arches for Jessie but FTBFS in > packages which have never built on either of those are not RC.) To be exact, FTBFS in a package on an architecture for which it is not *currently* built is not RC. I

Bug#770704: ITP: wcwidth -- determine printable width of a string on a terminal

2014-11-23 Thread Sebastian Ramacher
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sebastian Ramacher * Package name: wcwidth Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : Jeff Quast * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wcwidth/0.1.4 * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : determine printab

Re: Help to review a patch in ELisp

2014-11-23 Thread Stéphane Aulery
Hello, Thank you very much for your accurate answers. I forwarded to the author for a decision knowingly. Regards, -- Stéphane Aulery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Age of built packages to be part of the jessie release?

2014-11-23 Thread Stuart Prescott
Svante Signell wrote: > I wonder how old a package build can be to be part of the release. Some > packages are built up to a year ago, and rebuilding them now FTBFS. As others have noted already, there are period archive rebuilds to check what would now ftbfs. Slightly orthogonal to your questi

Re: Bug#770704: ITP: wcwidth -- determine printable width of a string on a terminal

2014-11-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 01:58:09PM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote: > * Package name: wcwidth > * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wcwidth/0.1.4 > * License : Expat > Programming Lang: Python > Description : determine printable width of a string on a terminal > >

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-23 Thread Vincent Danjean
On 20/11/2014 21:44, Simon McVittie wrote: > noauto is appropriate for detachable/removable media that are not > normally present. The other option for such media is to leave them out > of fstab altogether, and use something like udisks to mount them > on-demand: that's what you'd typically do in G

Bug#770731: ITP: symlookup -- Utility for object symbol search in installed libraries

2014-11-23 Thread Dmitry Yu Okunev
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dmitry Yu Okunev * Package name: symlookup Version : 0.5.2 Upstream Author : Andrew A Savchenko * URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/symbol-lookup/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C (gnu99) Description : U

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 21/11/14 13:31, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > Otherwise that memory > might afterwards be regarded as lzo_memops_TU2_struct lzo_memops_TU2_struct is declared with __attribute__((__may_alias__)), so actually the right thing should be happening WRT aliasing in this case. On 21/11/14 13:21, Thorsten

Re: Bug#770704: ITP: wcwidth -- determine printable width of a string on a terminal

2014-11-23 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Adam Borowski , 2014-11-23, 16:12: Even better, it would be better to call libc's wcwidth() instead of reinventing the wheel -- as a bonus, the data would be current without need for manual intervention. Beware that wcwidth(2) is locale-dependent, which might or might not be desirable. --

packaging diaspora, final steps, looking for collaborators

2014-11-23 Thread Pirate Praveen
Hi, We've been working on packaging diaspora since last 2+ years. It is written in ruby on rails framework and has 206 dependencies https://people.debian.org/~praveen/diasbar/ So far we packaged around 86% of the dependencies. Now I created a diaspora package with remaining dependencies uploaded

Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-23 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday, November 23, 2014 13:41:47 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 05:06:25PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Wouter Verhelst , 2014-11-22, 08:25: > > >>It appears that the appropriate resolution of #769106 [1] is to add a > > >>new pre-depends on python-minimal in python. > > >

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/11/14 17:55, Simon McVittie wrote: > Unfortunately, on my x86-64 laptop, my patched liblzo2 with > -DLZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED on all architectures seems to be half as fast as > the unpatched one [...] > I'm trying out a slightly different approach: keeping the unaligned > accesses via casts like

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Julian Taylor
On 23.11.2014 23:11, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 23/11/14 17:55, Simon McVittie wrote: >> Unfortunately, on my x86-64 laptop, my patched liblzo2 with >> -DLZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED on all architectures seems to be half as fast as >> the unpatched one > [...] >> I'm trying out a slightly different approac

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/11/14 22:30, Julian Taylor wrote: > what works well is just replacing the offending memory loads with the > memcpy call. As the size of the memcpy call is constant the compiler > will take care of emitting code appropriate for the platform. Ah, even better; the timing on x86-64 comes out the

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-11-23 at 23:30 +0100, Julian Taylor wrote: > On 23.11.2014 23:11, Simon McVittie wrote: > > On 23/11/14 17:55, Simon McVittie wrote: > >> Unfortunately, on my x86-64 laptop, my patched liblzo2 with > >> -DLZO_CFG_NO_UNALIGNED on all architectures seems to be half as fast as > >> the un

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-11-23 Thread Simon McVittie
On 23/11/14 22:54, Ben Hutchings wrote: > in this function > > void copy_foo(struct foo *dst, const struct foo *src) > { > memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(*dst)); > } > > the compiler is still allowed to assume that src has the proper > alignment for struct foo and to opti

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-23 Thread Noel Torres
On Sunday, 23 de November de 2014 15:09:53 Vincent Danjean escribió: > On 20/11/2014 21:44, Simon McVittie wrote: > > noauto is appropriate for detachable/removable media that are not > > normally present. The other option for such media is to leave them out > > of fstab altogether, and use somethi

Bug#770783: ITP: libtest-perl-critic-progressive-perl -- gradually enforce coding standards

2014-11-23 Thread Robin Sheat
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robin Sheat * Package name: libtest-perl-critic-progressive-perl Version : 0.03 Upstream Author : Jeffrey Thalhammer * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Perl-Critic-Progressive * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Prog

Re: New pre-depends: python pre-depends python-minimal

2014-11-23 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 03:29:29PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Sunday, November 23, 2014 13:41:47 Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > As I understand the situation, that won't solve your problem. > > > > If python pre-depends on python-minimal (and the rest of the dependencies > > stay in place), th

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

2014-11-23 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 11:42:41AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > [...] > Before we enable a firewall by default, we should, IMO, have the > following: > > - A way for a user to configure it without understanding iptables. > - A way for a user to debug (without understanding iptables) if things >

Re: systemd, fstab, noauto and nofail

2014-11-23 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Noel Torres: > Anyway I see that you do not use the noauto option. Is that on purpose? > What? It's the very first option. In any case, I can see why three entries for the same mountpoint don't exactly fit systemd's view of the world -- I wouldn't get that idea either, since "mount /media/ph