Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Bas Wijnen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Philippe Cerfon: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Christian PERRIER > > wrote: > >> Discussing infrastructure changes like what you're proposing (which I > >> have no advice about) s

Bug#809804: ITP: python-pager -- terminal/console pager module in pure Python

2016-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pager Version : 3.3 Upstream Author : anatoly techtonik * URL : http://bitbucket.org/techtonik/python-pager * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : terminal/

Bug#809808: ITP: python-toml -- library for Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language

2016-01-04 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-toml Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Uiri Noyb * URL : https://github.com/uiri/toml * License : Expat Programming Lang: Python Description : library for Tom's Obvious, Mini

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 10:14:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >Note that mounting /usr early, something we *already do*, is separate from >actually merging /usr with /bin and /lib. Once you mount /usr early, it's >rather less important whether you actually merge the file systems. While >it does let yo

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:30:24 +0100, Eric Valette wrote: >System admins do like using absolute path >for security reasons... Please also notice that this is the only option for ExecStart in systemd units. Well played, Lennart. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courte

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 23:55:08 +0100, Eric Valette wrote: >cannot really accommodate the /etc/defaut/pkg >configurable options... This will get worse, btw, since the systemd community ponders removing the EnvironmentFile option since "all distributions are using it wrong", especially looking upon D

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 22:06:32 +0100, Florian Lohoff wrote: >From my 25 year Unix experience i dont like the usr merge. Agreed. > As you sum >up very nicely and i agree on is that Debian has given up on being >slim at this point. There is no such thing as a single user mode boot >with only the root

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 2016-01-03 07:35, Christian PERRIER wrote: Quoting Philippe Cerfon (philc...@gmail.com): Package: general Severity: wishlist Tags: security Hi. I think Debian has the following two problems (or rather its security conscious users) with respect to software that gets into the system: No id

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:28:14 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >I do understand why people working in the embedded space care about some >unusual mount orderings, file system separations, and very light cores, >and I hope that we can accomodate and support all of their use cases >inside Debian. I think

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:35:39 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: >So that was the state in February of 2011, when the warning was added >to systemd and the systemd developers recommended the use of the >initrd: mounting /usr from a running system is broken. Either it is >already completely broken in som

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Marc Haber writes: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:28:14 -0800, Russ Allbery > wrote: >>But I don't get why people who are using non-embedded UNIX systems >>particularly care. > > I, for example, am afraid of having to merge /usr in existing systems > during upgrades, causing repartitions to be necessar

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then >you are automatically disqualified from taking part in this discussion >because you are not understanding the basic underlying issues. As friendly as al

MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Dear debian-devel, we are currently planning to start the transition of libpng. The transition bug can be found here: https://bugs.debian.org/650601. Out of the 463 rebuilt packages 117 FTBFS with the new libpng, however not every failure can be attributed to the library. Logs from the rebuild c

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:01:46 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:28:14 -0800, Russ Allbery >> wrote: >>>But I don't get why people who are using non-embedded UNIX systems >>>particularly care. >> >> I, for example, am afraid of having to merge /usr in exi

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Tobias Frost , 2016-01-04, 12:02: Logs from the rebuild can be found here: http://libpng.sviech.de, as well as a scratchpad with a short analysis:  https://titanpad.com/libpng16-transistion Plain-text version for people who don't enjoy running non-free JS code: https://titanpad.com/ep/pad/ex

Re: Failed to stop defining RPATH in libncl

2016-01-04 Thread Alec Leamas
On 04/01/16 11:40, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I'm trying to package libncl[1] but I failed to fight the following lintian error: E: ncl-tools: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath usr/bin/NCLconverter /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ncl I deactivated my quilt patches and the override_dh_auto_configure sinc

Re: Failed to stop defining RPATH in libncl

2016-01-04 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Alec, please do not move the thread from debian-mentors to debian-devel. For those reading here and are interested to answer do this on debian-mentors where it belongs to. On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:37:59PM +0100, Alec Leamas wrote: > > > >Andreas. > > > >[1] git://anonscm.debian.org/

Bug#694308: non-DFSG postscript embedded in fontforge

2016-01-04 Thread Hideki Yamane
On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 14:07:46 +0100 Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: >>No, it will help me on the lintian to get not rebuilt at build time fonts... >> >>Best will be to add a timestamp but i think it destroy reproductible >>build step, so if timestamp could be >>overriden by an env variable (so it could be

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Bastien Roucaries
Le 4 janvier 2016 12:02:00 GMT+01:00, Tobias Frost a écrit : >Dear debian-devel, > >we are currently planning to start the transition of libpng. >The transition bug can be found here: >https://bugs.debian.org/650601. > >Out of the 463 rebuilt packages 117 FTBFS with the new libpng, however >not

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/04/2016 11:41 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jan 2016 13:28:14 -0800, Russ Allbery > wrote: >> I do understand why people working in the embedded space care about some >> unusual mount orderings, file system separations, and very light cores, >> and I hope that we can accomodate and supp

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Hi Sebastien, Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 12:00 + schrieb Bastien Roucaries: > >  > Add also bug to package using embeded libpng 1.6 like texlive ? Thanks for the hint, I frankly forgot to check for code copies. Yes, I guess the security team would be happy to drop embedded code copies or at

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/04/2016 12:15 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:01:46 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt >> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with >> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available >> post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /u

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Tobias, > I guess I'll drop Norbert a line for now to make him aware  > of the libpng transistion... (CC'ed) Oh, I would be more than happy to have libpng16 in unstable!!! I can rebuild texlive-bin at any time with system-libpng, just need a working copy. But first I need the other libs being

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Simon McVittie
On 04/01/16 12:50, Tobias Frost wrote: > Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 12:00 + schrieb Bastien Roucaries: >> Add also bug to package using embeded libpng 1.6 like texlive ? > > Thanks for the hint, I frankly forgot to check for code copies. https://lintian.debian.org/tags/embedded-library.html a

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/04/2016 11:44 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 21:35:39 +0100, Christian Seiler > wrote: >> So that was the state in February of 2011, when the warning was added >> to systemd and the systemd developers recommended the use of the >> initrd: mounting /usr from a running system is br

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Am 04.01.2016 um 14:06 schrieb Simon McVittie: > In addition to texlive: > > chromium and ice* might be able to move from their embedded copies to a > newer system copy, or not, depending whether they've patched them. Happily Icedove isn't using here a embedded version of libpng, that's a little

Re: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Eric Valette
Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said elsewhere

Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload

2016-01-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Le 22/12/2015 00:38, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : >> The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm >> not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more. >> Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with >> previous Debian releases, but another

Re: Bug#807019: tracking bin-num - broken unison due to binnmu upload

2016-01-04 Thread Mehdi Dogguy
On 2016-01-04 17:24, Stéphane Glondu wrote: Le 22/12/2015 00:38, Mehdi Dogguy a écrit : The change done in unison 2.48 to overcome this looks pretty big... I'm not sure I'll be able/willing to provide a unison2.40.102 any more. Moreover, this package was created to provide compatibility with pr

Re: Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Eric Valette
Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the systemd case as initscripts needs updates for sysvinit as was said elsewhere). So no reparti

Bug#809857: ITP: django-python3-ldap -- Django LDAP user authentication backend

2016-01-04 Thread Michael Fladischer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Michael Fladischer -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: django-python3-ldap Version : 0.9.8 Upstream Author : Dave Hall * URL : https://github.com/etianen/django-python3-ldap * License : BSD-3

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette: >> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with >> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available >> post-initramfs. The initramfs already takes care to mount /usr (for the >> systemd case as initscripts needs upd

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then > >you are automatically disqualified from taking part in this discussion > >because you are not understandi

Bug#809923: ITP: nordlicht -- a C library that creates moodbars from video files

2016-01-04 Thread Peter Spiess-Knafl
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Peter Spiess-Knafl" * Package name: nordlicht Version : 0.4.2 Upstream Author : Sebastian Morr * URL : https://github.com/nordlicht/nordlicht * License : GPL-2+ Programming Lang: C Description : a C library that

Bug#809925: RFA: neotoma -- parser generator for Erlang

2016-01-04 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Description-en: parser generator for Erlang Neotoma is a packrat parser-generator for Erlang for Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs). It consists of a parsing-combinator library with memoization routines, a parser for PEGs, and a utility to generate parsers from P

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > Your second item has been brought up before with different > focus/rationale/purpose. At least I remember there being an interest > in splitting "non-free" into "non-free/firmware" vs. various other > non-free sub components. Anothe

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Eric Valette
On 04/01/2016 20:43, Michael Biebl wrote: an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a separate partition. No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while. Did you actually test it? It works for me TM on fairly simple setup... -- eric

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Iustin Pop
On 2016-01-04 23:41:40, Eric Valette wrote: > On 04/01/2016 20:43, Michael Biebl wrote: > > >an initramfs is not mandatory as long as you don't have /usr on a > >separate partition. > >No initramfs + split /usr is not supported and has been broken for a while. > > Did you actually test it? It wor

Re: MBF Announcement: Transition libpng12 -> libpng16

2016-01-04 Thread Tobias Frost
Am Montag, den 04.01.2016, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Tobias Frost: For those want to test against libpng1.6:  Note that the libpn16 package in experimental does NOT Provide libpng- dev at the moment. As I've hacked something together for my rebuild, you can grab the dsc here:  https://libpng.sviech.de/l

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Adam Borowski
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette: > >> Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with > >> the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available > >> post-initramfs. The initramfs already tak

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.01.2016 um 01:17 schrieb Adam Borowski: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette: Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both availabl

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:21:06 +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: >On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: >> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >> >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then >> >you are automatically disqualified from taking p

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/05/2016 01:17 AM, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette: Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the same partition with the usrmerge proposal: they only have to be both available

Bug#809972: ITP: scrm -- A coalescent simulator for genome-scale sequences

2016-01-04 Thread Kevin Murray
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Kevin Murray * Package name: scrm Version : 1.6.1 Upstream Author : Paul R. Staab * URL : https://github.com/scrm/scrm * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : A coalescent simulator for genome-scale s

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 01/05/2016 01:34 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:21:06 +0100, Iustin Pop > wrote: >> On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: >>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then >>

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Philippe Cerfon
Hey Niels On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Philippe Cerfon: > Your second item has been brought up before with different > focus/rationale/purpose. At least I remember there being an interest in > splitting "non-free" into "non-free/firmware" vs. various other non-free > su

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Philippe Cerfon
Hey. On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Bas Wijnen wrote: > debian-project, or hopefully debian-devel. -project for talking about the > idea, -devel for discussing an implementation. Mehdi mentioned below that it would already land on debian-devel. So I'm not sure whether it makes sense to post i

Bug#809983: ITP: node-getobject -- get.and.set.deep.objects.easily = true

2016-01-04 Thread Jonathan Ulrich Horn
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonathan Ulrich Horn X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-getobject Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : "Cowboy" Ben Alman (http://benalman.com/) * URL : https://github.com/cowboy/node-getobject * Licen

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Nikolaus Rath
On Jan 05 2016, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 22:21:06 +0100, Iustin Pop > wrote: >>On 2016-01-04 12:03:07, Marc Haber wrote: >>> On Sun, 3 Jan 2016 19:15:18 +0100, m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: >>> >Anyway, if you think that the merged /usr scheme is about systemd then >>> >you a

Bug#809986: ITP: mosquitto-auth-plugin -- Authentication plugin for Mosquitto with multiple back-ends

2016-01-04 Thread Adam Majer
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Majer * Package name: mosquitto-auth-plugin Version : 0.0.7 Upstream Author : Jan-Piet Mens * URL : https://github.com/jpmens/mosquitto-auth-plug * License : BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Authenticati

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (2016-01-04 23:14:11) > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > > Your second item has been brought up before with different > > focus/rationale/purpose. At least I remember there being an interest > > in splitting "non-free" into "non-free/

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi, Quoting Jerome BENOIT (2016-01-05 08:25:47) > On 05/01/16 08:15, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (2016-01-04 23:14:11) > >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: > >>> Your second item has been brought up before with different > >>> f

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 08:15:37AM +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > while I would welcome this sort of information being captured using debtags, > this would not help me if I wanted to tell apt which packages are okay for me > and which ones are not because apt cannot set pin priorities according t

Bug#809705: general: let people use non-free software but opt-out of non-open software

2016-01-04 Thread Jerome BENOIT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 05/01/16 08:15, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli (2016-01-04 23:14:11) >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 07:45:37AM +, Niels Thykier wrote: >>> Your second item has been brought up before with different >>> focus/rat

Re: support for merged /usr in Debian

2016-01-04 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello all. On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 01:23:06AM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 05.01.2016 um 01:17 schrieb Adam Borowski: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Am 04.01.2016 um 19:12 schrieb Eric Valette: > Remember that / and /usr don't have to reside on the