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

2014-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le samedi 29 novembre 2014 à 16:37 +, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > […] > > > Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, interfaces > > that could be provided elsewhere. > > Is that “use” as in “if available” or is that actually “require

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philip Hands: > It seems to me that we could: > > Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to > multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less > confusing to outsiders, how about: > 2 & 5 --> graphical > 3 & 4 --> multi-user > Or we could

DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Josselin Mouette writes: > Le samedi 29 novembre 2014 à 16:37 +, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : > Josselin Mouette writes: […] >>> Desktops (not only GNOME) use a very tiny bit of systemd, >>> interfaces that could be provided elsewhere. >> Is that “use” as in “if available” or is

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 novembre 2014 10:10 GMT, Ivan Shmakov  : > > Directly: DEs provide more useful features (especially power > > management) with systemd but will work correctly without. > > I see nothing in the ‘apcupsd’ changelog [1] (which is about the > only package related to power managemen

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Vincent Bernat wrote: > A side-effect is that power management got a lot easier and reliable for > people not using GNOME, thanks to systemd. As a XFCE user, I have to contradict this statement. It is still a pain because xfce and systemd still don't act completely properly to

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephan Seitz may or may not have written... > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:41:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> On Nov 28, Svante Signell wrote: >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be >>> kept. >> I disagree: upgrades should get the default init sy

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 30 novembre 2014 10:10 GMT, Ivan Shmakov  : […] >> Or does the above concerns the users of “normally battery-powered” >> devices instead? > Previously, every DE would need to reimplement power management. > Now, this is handled by systemd (and hence not

Bug#771522: ITP: ruby-fog-xml -- XML parsing for fog providers

2014-11-30 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-fog-xml Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Michael Hale * URL : https://github.com/fog/fog-xml/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : XML parsing for fog provider

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > working upstream Are there any vendors of ARM-based devices who are doing that? -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 12:50 +, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : > > PolicyKit rely on logind to know if a user is locally connected. A > > non-local user won't be allowed things like network management, local > > device mounting or sound card access. > > That looks like a problem to

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 novembre 2014 12:50 GMT, Ivan Shmakov  : > > PolicyKit rely on logind to know if a user is locally connected. A > > non-local user won't be allowed things like network management, local > > device mounting or sound card access. > > That looks like a problem to solve, not a feature.

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Ivan Shmakov: > I agree that the issue gets trickier for multiuser hosts, but > I’m pretty sure that there still will be at least one user for > whom no such access restrictions should apply, – irrespective of > his or her “login locality.” > The access groups are stil

Re: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie

2014-11-30 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Darren Salt [141130 14:17]: > I demand that Stephan Seitz may or may not have written... > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 02:41:23PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >> On Nov 28, Svante Signell wrote: > >>> a) Upgrades should _not_ change init: whatever is installed should be > >>> kept. > >> I disa

Bug#771540: ITP: ruby-fog-voxel -- Module for the 'fog' gem to support Voxel

2014-11-30 Thread Balasankar C
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Balasankar C * Package name: ruby-fog-voxel Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Lance Ivy * URL : https://github.com/fog/fog-voxel * License : Expat Programming Lang: Ruby Description : Module for the 'fog' gem to

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 11/30/2014 at 06:56 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 30 novembre 2014 10:10 GMT, Ivan Shmakov : > >>> Directly: DEs provide more useful features (especially power >>> management) with systemd but will work correctly without. >> >> I see nothing in the ‘apcupsd’ changelog [1] (which is about the

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 novembre 2014 14:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette  : >> That looks like a problem to solve, not a feature. >> >> For home installs, I see no reason for the owner of the device >> to be /denied/ access to the sound card just because of using >> SSH. Why, it’s exactly what I do

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

2014-11-30 Thread Noel Torres
On Friday, 28 de November de 2014 07:45:29 Josselin Mouette escribió: [...] > This is nothing short of bullying. If you want to help our users, you > can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages in > Debian. But spreading your bitterness on development forums is only > about hurti

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Noel Torres
On Sunday, 30 de November de 2014 13:55:04 Vincent Bernat escribió: > ❦ 30 novembre 2014 12:50 GMT, Ivan Shmakov : > > > PolicyKit rely on logind to know if a user is locally connected. A > > > non-local user won't be allowed things like network management, local > > > device mounting or soun

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Josselin Mouette writes: > Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 12:50 +, Ivan Shmakov a écrit : […] >> For home installs, I see no reason for the owner of the device to be >> /denied/ access to the sound card just because of using SSH. Why, >> it’s exactly what I do. (I even did thi

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, The Wanderer: > Thus, having systemd provide power management would at best have no > effect, more likely increase the likelihood of power-management bugs > (and make documenting power-management behavior harder), You're forgetting a few things here. * The idea is for all the legacy code to

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

2014-11-30 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:59:06 + Noel Torres wrote: > On Friday, 28 de November de 2014 07:45:29 Josselin Mouette escribió: > [...] > > This is nothing short of bullying. If you want to help our users, > > you can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages > > in Debian. But spr

Re: Embedded systems and systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-11-30 at 21:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 3:11 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > working upstream > > Are there any vendors of ARM-based devices who are doing that? Most of the SoC vendors seem to be doing *some* work to get their chips supported upstream, but I

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands: >> It seems to me that we could: >> >> Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to >> multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less >> confusing to outsiders, how about: >> 2 & 5 --> graphical >>

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

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 30. November 2014, 18:05:54 schrieb Neil Williams: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 15:59:06 + > > Noel Torres wrote: […] > Debian: > > If you want to help our users, you > > can contribute to debianfork, or you can improve your packages in > > Debian. But spreading your bitterness on develo

Bug#771565: ITP: cme -- Check or edit configuration data with Config::Model

2014-11-30 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: cme Version : 1.001-1 Upstream Author : Dominique Dumont * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/App-Cme * License :

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

2014-11-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 19:59 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > You complain about people blaming Debian, or more exactly Debian technical > committee and GR decisions, for their decision to leave. Yes, it is anyone´s > decision to leave. No one to blame for it. > > But that also work

Bug#771583: ITP: libdata-validate-struct-perl -- Validate recursive hash structures

2014-11-30 Thread Per Carlson
Package: wnpp Owner: Per Carlson Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-validate-struct-perl Version : 0.08 Upstream Author : Thomas v.Dein * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Data-Validate-

Bug#771581: ITP: libsession-token-perl -- Secure, efficient, simple random session token generation

2014-11-30 Thread Per Carlson
Package: wnpp Owner: Per Carlson Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libsession-token-perl Version : 1.008 Upstream Author : Doug Hoyte * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Session-Token * License

Bug#771582: ITP: libdata-validate-perl -- Common data validation methods

2014-11-30 Thread Per Carlson
Package: wnpp Owner: Per Carlson Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdata-validate-perl Version : 0.09 Upstream Author : Richard Sonnen (son...@richardsonnen.com) * URL : https://metacpan.org/re

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

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 30. November 2014, 21:54:09 schrieb Josselin Mouette: > Le dimanche 30 novembre 2014 à 19:59 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > You complain about people blaming Debian, or more exactly Debian technical > > committee and GR decisions, for their decision to leave. Yes, it is > > any

Bug#771600: ITP: geopy -- Python client for several popular geocoding web services

2014-11-30 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Johan Van de Wauw * Package name: geopy Version : 1.4.0 Upstream Author : Brian Beck, other contributors * URL : https://github.com/geopy/geopy * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : Python client

I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, filebench and atop packaging

2014-11-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hello! I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, as well as unreleased filebench and atop 2.1 packaging work as I do not want to waste my energy with working in what I perceive as a hostile environment. I have been told to stop posting here and have even been moderated by a listmaster for

Re: I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, filebench and atop packaging

2014-11-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 01 Dec 2014, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I have been told to stop posting here and have even been moderated by > a listmaster for expressing my truth. And I believe this to be > unjustified and not neutral. Just for the record, listmaster@ has not moderated Martin. I have personally warned

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > * Other users only have access to audio devices through ACLs when > > physically logged on. > > Unless I be mistaken, ACLs are only applied at the time of > open(2). What about the pr

Re: I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, filebench and atop packaging

2014-11-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > Just for the record, listmaster@ has not moderated Martin. I have > personally warned him in regards to his recent content-less postings to > -devel in a private e-mail which was Cc:'ed to listmaster. Which is a listmaster statement ... I told you alread

Re: DE features dependent on Systemd

2014-11-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:10:09AM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 04:40:21PM +, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > > > Josselin Mouette writes: > > > * Other users only have access to audio devices through ACLs when > > > physically logged on. > > > > Unless I be mistaken,

Re: I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, filebench and atop packaging

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
Norbert Preining writes: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: >> Just for the record, listmaster@ has not moderated Martin. I have >> personally warned him in regards to his recent content-less postings to >> -devel in a private e-mail which was Cc:'ed to listmaster. > > Which is a listmas

Re: I am at least pausing my work on fio, fsmark, filebench and atop packaging

2014-11-30 Thread zlatan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 +1 Phil. Norbert's and TG's mail in this year (not all mail but everyone following ML's knows which one) are definition of bad behaviour that at least violates good manners and should be sanctioned so others don't feel they can call out their fel

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

2014-11-30 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Sat, 2014-11-22 at 11:42 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Except that if a firewall "protects" a user from using their printer > (random example, not sure how likely) Well most security guys are probably sceptical about any automagical confiugration of things like a printer... so "protects" can

Re: Bug#771269: ITP: jnr-ffi -- Java library for loading native libraries without writing writing JNI code

2014-11-30 Thread Potter, Tim (Cloud Services)
On 29/11/14 3:51 AM, "Emmanuel Bourg" wrote: >Hi Tim, > >I believe we already have that one: > >https://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jffi.html > Thanks Emmanuel. You're correct of course. The rest of the jnr-* modules require a big update (1.0.2 -> 1.2.7) to the jffi package, but I haven't been ab

FW: Bug#771592: RFP: python-pynlpl -- Python library for Natural Language Processing

2014-11-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Forward for -devel convenience only, bug is already reassigned, retitled, etc. Andrei - Forwarded message from Pander - Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:54:15 +0100 From: Pander , To: sub...@bugs.debian.org Subject: Bug#771592: TAG: python-pynlpl -- Python library for Natural Language Proces

Re: Bug#771591: TAG: python-isoweek -- Python module provide the class Week

2014-11-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 RFP: python-isoweek -- Python module to provide the class Week On Du, 30 nov 14, 22:54:27, Pander wrote: > Package: python-isoweek > Severity: RFP > > See also and link to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1273829 >

Re: Bug#771590: RFP: tg -- Command-line interface for Telegram

2014-11-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 RFP: tg -- Command-line interface for Telegram On Du, 30 nov 14, 22:54:22, Pander wrote: > Package: tg > Severity: RFP > > See also and link to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1284112 > > description: Command-line

Re: Bug#771593: RFP: python-nfc -- Python module to read/write NFC tags or communicate with another NFC device

2014-11-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 RFP: python-nfc -- Python module to read/write NFC tags or communicate with another NFC device On Du, 30 nov 14, 22:54:31, Pander wrote: > Package: python-nfc > Severity: RFP > > See also and link to https://bugs.launchp