Re: #791857 ITP: daemonize -- tool to run a command as a daemon

2015-11-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 09 Nov 2015 13:33:57 +1100, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: >"daemon" [2] looks powerful but not easy to drop privileges, manage PID file >and log to syslog, comparing to "duende"... daemon and libslack have also been dead upstream for ten years. As soon as I have managed to migrate console-log to

Re: [HEADSUP] dropping xconsole support from default rsyslog configuration

2015-11-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Marco d'Itri, on Mon 09 Nov 2015 03:38:40 +0100, wrote: > I really doubt that many people still use it anymore. I do use it. Not mentioning the change in NEWS is fine however, people using it probably know where to look at when it stops working. Samuel

Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

2015-11-09 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hello all, As per my communication with Dave Crossland ¹², fonts-droid is now superceded by fonts-noto. Newer version of fonts-android will no longer ship binary package fonts-droid. But fallback variants will still be shipped with new binary package fonts-droid-fallback. (Yet to be packaged). S

Re: Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

2015-11-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
(Adding debian-boot@) Hi, Vasudev Kamath (2015-11-09): > As per my communication with Dave Crossland ¹², fonts-droid is now > superceded by fonts-noto. Newer version of fonts-android will no longer > ship binary package fonts-droid. But fallback variants will still be > shipped with new binary p

Re: (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.

2015-11-09 Thread Alec Leamas
On 08/11/15 19:28, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Sunday 08 November 2015 15:19:30 Alec Leamas wrote: >> Some tooling to build the new configuration from the old will indeed be >> required. This is actually some work - it includes a complete lircd >> command line parser with ~18 options. But it's cer

An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Daniel Baumann
[ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ I am sending it here by mail now. ] An abrupt End to Debian Live Debian can be great. But depending on who you are, where yo

Re: [HEADSUP] dropping xconsole support from default rsyslog configuration

2015-11-09 Thread Michael Biebl
I'm CCing the maintainers of syslog-ng and inetutils-syslogd. They also ship a configuration for xconsole. Maybe they are interested in doing the same change as in rsyslog and drop that from their config. Am 08.11.2015 um 22:55 schrieb Michael Biebl: > Hi, > > when first packaging the rsyslog pac

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Ed Dixon
So sorry to hear this Daniel! I feel what they have done here is so wrong, but I have noticed they are very totalitarian in their processes. To do this to someone who has contributed so much though is really stupid on their part! I will definitely be forking here as prior versions fit my needs perf

[ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread Ralph Amissah
I post not in anger but sadness, I should not let my voice go uncounted. Attached is my note to Daniel of earlier today, before his posting of "an abrupt end to Debian Live". Debian Live which he said Debian should have (as a Debian developer) in 2006 and went on to deliver, rather nicely (with (a

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 05:47:09PM +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > [5] https://bugs.debian.org/804315 FWIW, while I helped the vmdebootstrap folks at the recent Cambridge sprint with getting UEFI support in place, it was something of a surprise to me to hear that their tool would be called "live-bu

Re: [ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread Richard Newton
I agree, shame on those responsible. I have been using Debian for almost 15 years and this is the first time I have been ashamed. Add my name to the record "of conscientious objection." RIchard Newton On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Ralph Amissah wrote: > I post not in anger but sadness, I sho

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Brian May
Colin Watson writes: > FWIW, while I helped the vmdebootstrap folks at the recent Cambridge > sprint with getting UEFI support in place, it was something of a > surprise to me to hear that their tool would be called "live-build-ng". > This seems pretty over the top to me and I was expecting it to

Re: [ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread Ed Dixon
Be sure to share Daniels story via social media using the buttons on his blog. I hope it wakes up the entire community to what happens when you actually do something right around here! https://t.co/NwWs9AfW87 Thanks, On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 2:15 PM Richard Newton wrote: > I agree, shame on those

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Ben Finney
Daniel Baumann writes: > The live.debian.net server will be shut down end of month, the Git > repositories are read-only as of now and mirrored to GitHub[6] for > archival. > > So long, and thanks for all the fish[7]. Sorry to see it come to this. Thank you for scrupulously tracing the history

Bug#804621: ITP: liblightify -- library to control OSRAM LIGHTIFY products

2015-11-09 Thread Tobias Frost
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Tobias Frost * Package name: liblightify Version : 0 Upstream Author : Tobias Frost * URL : https://github.com/coldtobi/liblightify * License : BSD Programming Lang: C and C++ Description : library to control OSR

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 09/11/15 12:47 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > So long, and thanks for all the fish[7]. > > Daniel > > [7] http://live.debian.net/project/downstream/ > Enough bitter words have been said. I don't want to add any more. So: I'm proud. Indeed, that long list of downstreams does speak to the impact y

Re: [ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread Robert Edmonds
Or perhaps we could assume good faith on the part of all participants to this dispute rather than trying to stir up a great moral crusade. Ed Dixon wrote: > Be sure to share Daniels story via social media using the buttons on his > blog. I hope it wakes up the entire community to what happens when

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Kay Hannay
Hello Daniel, I'm really sorry to hear that! I would like to say thank you for your hard work on the live-build project. This tool is/was really helpful to realize my little project and I was happy when I found this great solution back in 2009. All what I have read in regard to the end of Debian

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Russell Stuart
On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 17:47 +0100, Daniel Baumann wrote: > An abrupt End to Debian Live As a person who recently used Debian Live to set up a PXE boot image after trying several different alternatives including debian-cd, I am sorry to hear this and sad to see debian-live go. It will be missed, b

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Richard Nelson
Greetings, Well said. I only add that if one can not see the inequity clearly they need to remove the blinders. Thank you Daniel and fellow Debian Live team members for a project which allowed me an opportunity to serve others in the Debian community. On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Ben Armstro

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread chals
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 09/11/15 12:47 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: >> So long, and thanks for all the fish[7]. >> >> Daniel >> >> [7] http://live.debian.net/project/downstream/ >> > > Enough bitter words have been said. I don't want to add any more. So: > Those ar

Re: [ralph.amis...@gmail.com: outrageous, thievery]

2015-11-09 Thread chals
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Ralph Amissah wrote: > I post not in anger but sadness, I should not let my voice go uncounted. > > Attached is my note to Daniel of earlier today, before his posting of > "an abrupt end to Debian Live". Debian Live which he said Debian should > have (as a Debian de

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Steven Shiau
Hi Daniel, I am really sorry to hear this. Back to 2007 we were happy to find Debian live so that we could create Clonezilla live easily in these years. It's really sad to see this happening. Thanks for all your efforts and thanks to all the Debian-live project members. Best regards, Steven.

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Monday 09 November 2015 17:47:09 Daniel Baumann wrote: > An abrupt End to Debian Live I am extremely saddened by what happened and I find it disgraceful the way it happened. I feel very proud that Debian Live was one of the first Debian projects I actually made a contribution to and seeing m

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread chals
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Daniel Baumann wrote: > [ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: > https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ > I am sending it here by mail now. ] > > > An abrupt End to Debian Live > ---

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Harshad Joshi
Count me in for your new fork, let's not give up so easily. Sent from my Cyanogen phone On 09-Nov-2015 10:33 pm, Daniel Baumann wrote: [ I don't know why this post is not showing up on planet.debian.org: https://danieltmp.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/an-abrupt-end-to-debian-live/ I am sending it

Re: An abrupt End to Debian Live

2015-11-09 Thread Michael .
I'd also like to remain a user if at all possible. On 10 November 2015 at 12:07, Harshad Joshi wrote: > Count me in for your new fork, let's not give up so easily. > > Sent from my Cyanogen phone > On 09-Nov-2015 10:33 pm, Daniel Baumann < > daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.com> wrote: > > [

Bug#804315: Renaming package live-build-ng to live-wrapper

2015-11-09 Thread Iain R. Learmonth
retitle 804315 ITP: live-wrapper -- live image wrapper for vmdebootstrap kthxbye Hi All, My original aim for this was that this new tool would be integrated into the existing Debian Live project, and that we would bring the Debian Live project into Debian. This is not the way it has gone. The na

Re: Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

2015-11-09 Thread Vasudev Kamath
Hi, Cyril Brulebois writes: >> >> And reverse build depends on package kodi as reported by >> build-rdeps script from devscripts package. >> >> I'm attaching a dd-list with this mail. I will start filing bugs against >> all these packages. > > Is this change going to impact the fonts-android-ud

Re: Migrating from fonts-droid to fonts-noto

2015-11-09 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Vasudev Kamath (vasu...@copyninja.info): > > Is this change going to impact the fonts-android-udeb binary package > > which is now being used within the Debian Installer? > > No, as of now upstream git repository of android source provides 2 > fallback variants DroidSansFallback and Droid

Bug#804646: ITP: partitionfinder -- programs for simultaneously choosing partitioning schemes and models of molecular evolution for sequence data.

2015-11-09 Thread Kevin Murray
X-Debbugs-CC: Debian Med Packaging Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: partitionfinder Version : 2.0.0 Upstream Author : Brett Calcott and Rob Lanfear * URL : https://github.com/brettc/partitionfinder * License : GPL-3+ Prog