Bug#770915: ITP: utox -- uTox is a lightweight audio/video chat client based on the secure tox protocol.

2014-11-25 Thread gaffa
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: gaffa * Package name: utox Version : 0+git20141121 Upstream Author : notsecure * URL : https://github.com/notsecure/uTox/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : uTox is a lightweight audio/video chat

enforced systemd services (was: Misc Developer News (#37))

2014-11-25 Thread Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
On 25 November 2014 at 02:22, Paul Wise wrote: > > Making packages secure with systemd service files > - > > Packagers of Debian software, who are needing to create systemd service > files would benefit from learning from Lennart Poettering's recen

Re: enforced systemd services (was: Misc Developer News (#37))

2014-11-25 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:04:06 +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: >On 25 November 2014 at 02:22, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> Making packages secure with systemd service files >> - >> >> Packagers of Debian software, who are needing to create systemd se

Re: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-11-25 Thread Anthony F McInerney
I noticed that my last mail about 766187 being related to 768657 didn't actually go to the bug report. (which was about this bug being related) Anyway, both of these bugs seem to be about providing /etc/inittab in one form or another. Please see KiBi's last entry about providing it via D-I which ha

Re: enforced systemd services (was: Misc Developer News (#37))

2014-11-25 Thread Toni Mueller
Hi Marc, On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:54:39AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 10:04:06 +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez > wrote: > >On 25 November 2014 at 02:22, Paul Wise wrote: > >> [13] http://0pointer.net/public/systemd-nluug-2014.pdf > >This seems pretty interesting. > > Inde

Re: enforced systemd services

2014-11-25 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 25 novembre 2014 10:54 +0100, Marc Haber  : >>> [12] >>> http://ftp.nluug.nl/video/nluug/2014-11-20_nj14/zaal-2/5_Lennart_Poettering_-_Systemd.webm >>> [13] http://0pointer.net/public/systemd-nluug-2014.pdf >>> >> >>This seems pretty interesting. > > Indeed. Do we really have to pull that fr

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

2014-11-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 24 November 2014 at 18:56, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2014-11-23 14:27 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 othe

Re: enforced systemd services

2014-11-25 Thread Bjørn Mork
Marc Haber writes: > Indeed. Do we really have to pull that from a video or presentation > slides? Is this part of the official systemd docs anywhere? I don't know of any collection of all security related directives, but you can find an index of all unit file directives in systemd.directives(7)

Re: enforced systemd services (was: Misc Developer News (#37))

2014-11-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 25, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > Is there a Debian-specific policy on how to apply these directives? We are working on one, but the general idea is "please enable as many security features as feasible". :-) -- ciao, Marco pgpfFub5bB57R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Bug#770945: ITP: libemail-stuffer-perl -- A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails

2014-11-25 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libemail-stuffer-perl Version : 0.009 Upstream Author : Adam Kennedy , Ricardo SIGNES * URL : https://metacpan.org/releas

Bug#770948: ITP: bdbvu -- simple GUI tool to browse Berkeley DB databases

2014-11-25 Thread Benjamin Drung
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benjamin Drung * Package name: bdbvu Version : 0~svn20100509 Upstream Author : Ferruccio Barletta * URL : https://code.google.com/p/bdbvu/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : simple GUI tool to

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
On 22.11.2014 02:13, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > Someone will find a hole in something, and there will be fire when sysadmins > have to upgrade in the middle of the night and now are running systemd > instead of what they are used to. Well, in that case, I'd say a rain of fire isn't entirely what's

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Philip Hands
"Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" writes: > On 22.11.2014 02:13, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > ... we should leave people the choice. de·fault (d-fôlt) n. a. /Computer Science/ A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by an operating system a

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult: > people who're maintaining missing criticial systems, large datacenters, > etc, give a clear and absolute NO to systemd. Care to tell us why? Other than "ugh, it's written by Lennart"?? > Debian will immediately loose 30..50% user base Could we PLEASE stop

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Matthias Urlichs urlichs.de> writes: > Care to tell us why? Other than "ugh, it's written by Lennart"?? The “why” does not matter. Users do not have to justify why they need to use something. I worked in for company that had a strict “no PHP” policy once. I have encountered other more or less we

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Sascha Mester
I have never really understood the reasons for this discussion. I am not a system administrator ( at least none of a datacenter - just for my home infrastructure, containing 3 machines ), and although I also have a distribution running on one of those ( Arch ) which is using systemd, I never reali

please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
August 8th, Debian began supporting¹ choice among several init systems. August 21st, Debian changed² default init. To me, flexibility is an important feature of Debian. I am excited that Debian extends its flexibility to cover several init systems. Others agree, apparently³: Among those testing

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thorsten Glaser said: > Matthias Urlichs urlichs.de> writes: > > > Care to tell us why? Other than "ugh, it's written by Lennart"?? > > The “why” does not matter. Users do not have to justify why they > need to use something. I worked in for company that had a strict

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > August 8th, Debian began supporting¹ choice among several init systems. > August 21st, Debian changed² default init. > > To me, flexibility is an important feature of Debian. I am excited that > Debian extends its flexibility to cover several init systems. > >

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Sascha Mester wrote: > Can someone tell me the advantages ( and disadvantages ) of systemd ? > I'm about to leave Debian as an user - not because of systemd, but > because of that discussion. Wait, you are asking for a discussion about the advantages and d

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi Cyril, Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): >> August 8th, Debian began supporting¹ choice among several init >> systems. August 21st, Debian changed² default init. >> >> To me, flexibility is an important feature of Debian. I am excited >> that Deb

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 nov 14, 18:44:33, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 06:01:38PM +0100, Sascha Mester wrote: > > Can someone tell me the advantages ( and disadvantages ) of systemd ? > > I'm about to leave Debian as an user - not because of systemd, but > > because of that discussion. > > Wai

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > > I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for > > tests through their blog, Planet Debian, various Debian mailing > > lists, etc. is going to change anything here. > > You don't follow how ra

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Noel Torres
On Monday, 17 de November de 2014 20:45:19 Josselin Mouette escribió: > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' > `- On Tuesday, 25 de November de 2014 17:30:38 Stephen Gran escribió: > Cheers, > -- > - > > | ,''`.

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 19:50 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > > > I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for > > > tests through their blog, Planet Debian, various Debian mailing > > > lists,

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Axel Wagner
Noel Torres writes: > Why is it that systemd proponents are the ones using this kind of signature? > Are they trying to insinuate that Debian is theirs? Wow! A dipshit crazy conspiracy theory about systemd and its proponents. Haven't seen one of those in a long time… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Noel Torres
On Tuesday, 25 de November de 2014 19:50:48 Axel Wagner escribió: > Noel Torres writes: > > Why is it that systemd proponents are the ones using this kind of > > signature? Are they trying to insinuate that Debian is theirs? > > Wow! A dipshit crazy conspiracy theory about systemd and its > propo

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:03:44PM +, Noel Torres wrote: > > > Why is it that systemd proponents are the ones using this kind of > > > signature? Are they trying to insinuate that Debian is theirs? > > > > Wow! A dipshit crazy conspiracy theory about systemd and its > > proponents. Haven't see

Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-25 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, Below is a proposal for a (partial) solution for the upgrade problem of keeping the installed init system: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765803 This has been discussed privately among selected users/DM/DDs and since the deadline for the ctte is December 4, it has to be

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

2014-11-25 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2014-11-25 11:14 Dimitri John Ledkov: On 24 November 2014 at 18:56, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: Would it make sense to trigger rebuilds (or binNMUs, or actions to the same effect) for all packages in a given architecture when there are important changes in the toolchain, e.g. the defa

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Noel Torres
On Tuesday, 25 de November de 2014 20:15:36 Andrey Rahmatullin escribió: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 08:03:44PM +, Noel Torres wrote: > > > > Why is it that systemd proponents are the ones using this kind of > > > > signature? Are they trying to insinuate that Debian is theirs? > > > > > > Wow!

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Philip Hands
Svante Signell writes: ... > Is this command something in debootstrap or the installer? > preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core" https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Installing_without_systemd Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-|

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

2014-11-25 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
On 25 November 2014 at 20:33, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > 2014-11-25 11:14 Dimitri John Ledkov: >> >> On 24 November 2014 at 18:56, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Would it make sense to trigger rebuilds (or binNMUs, or actions to the >>> same >>> effect) for all pa

Bug#771010: ITP: btest -- simple driver for basic unit tests

2014-11-25 Thread Hilko Bengen
Package: wnpp Owner: Hilko Bengen Severity: wishlist * Package name: btest Version : 0.53 Upstream Author : Bro Development Team * URL or Web page : http://www.bro.org/ * License : BSD Description : simple driver for basic unit tests This is a prerequisite for buil

Bug#771012: ITP: proj-rdnap -- RDNAP grid correction files for PROJ.4

2014-11-25 Thread Bas Couwenberg
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bas Couwenberg * Package name: proj-rdnap Version : 2008 Upstream Author : RDNAP * URL : https://www.kadaster.nl/web/Themas/Registraties/Rijksdriehoeksmeting/Transformatie-van-coordinaten.htm * License : RDNAPTRANS2008-N

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 19:50:48) > Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): >> Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) >>> I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for >>> tests through their blog, Planet Debian, various Debian mailing >>> lists, etc. is going to

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-26): > Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 19:50:48) > > Jonas Smedegaard (2014-11-25): > >> Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-25 18:31:33) > >>> I'm not sure why people seem to believe that broadcasting a call for > >>> tests through their blog, Planet Debian, various D

Re: Bug#668001: please help test proposed patch for bug#668001

2014-11-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (2014-11-26 00:31:18) > I'll probably stop replying here since I feel like I'm repeating > myself over and over and over and over again. You didn't repeat youself. Thanks for spelling out your opinions to me. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkit

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Noel Torres: > > [ largish .sig ] > Why is it that systemd proponents are the ones using this kind of signature? Signatures like this one may or may not be welcome here, but they are not a new phenomenon and have nothing whatsoever to do with systemd. Frankly, IMHO this is approaching paran

Re: Technical committee acting in gross violation of the Debian constitution

2014-11-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Noel Torres wrote: > Who our users are? Debian's users are the set of people and organisations who use Debian. That is changing every day as people discover Debian, discover other systems they like better, discover something about Debian they don't like, try a sys

Bug#771031: ITP: r-cran-kernlab -- GNU R package for kernel-based machine learning lab

2014-11-25 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Package: wnpp Owner: Dirk Eddelbuettel Severity: wishlist * Package name: r-cran-kernlab Version : 0.9-19 Upstream Author : Alexandros Karatzoglou, Alex Smola, Kurt Hornik * URL or Web page : http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/kernlab/index.html * License : GPL-2 Des