Re: Bug#630196: Shotwell publishing plugin status in stretch

2017-06-05 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 04/06/17 17:15, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote: > Hello Daniel, > > first thanks for your comments. > > > Am Sonntag, den 04.06.2017, 12:44 +0200 schrieb Daniel Pocock: >> >> Looking at Shotwell in stretch, in the Plugins tab of the >> Preferences dialog, I see there are extra options now: >> >>

What does "freeze" mean?

2017-06-05 Thread Hans
Dear developers, I know, debian is now on freeze. But what does this actually mean? Does this man, only security fixes are implemented or does this also mean, packages, which are buggy are still be fixed. I am asking, because I filed a bugreport to "uswsusp" (running debian/testing i386 on an

Re: What does "freeze" mean?

2017-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Hans wrote: > I know, debian is now on freeze. But what does this actually mean? These links should help with getting an idea about that: https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives#s-testing https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ https://www.de

Re: What does "freeze" mean?

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: What does "freeze" mean?"): > Please note that the uswsusp shouldn't be needed any more as systemd > handles hibernation IIRC. It is possible that removing uswsusp will > fix the issue for you. uswsusp may not be needed *on machines running systemd*. > In addition, uswsusp

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Afif Elghraoui writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)"): > I completely agree. I've teken issue with packages recommending packages > in the spirit of "if you want this, you might also want X", which is the > literal sense of the word "recommends", but fits the de

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Before doing that, it would be wise to try to find the answer to the > key question which the TC will ask. Suppose A recommends B. In what > way, or in what circumstances, will A fail due to lack of B ? > > In #849619 I don't see the answer to

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)"): > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:43 AM, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > Before doing that, it would be wise to try to find the answer to the > > key question which the TC will ask. Suppose A recommends B. In what > > wa

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > It does seem that some maintainers are unclear on these principles, or > their application; despite what seems to me to be very clear wording > in policy. So I think we need some examples. To work well they > should have a high profile and be

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)"): > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Ian Jackson > wrote: > > It does seem that some maintainers are unclear on these principles, or > > their application; despite what seems to me to be very clear wording > > i

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:42 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on > mail-transport-agent)"): >> Respectfully, #849619 is not at all a very convincing test case yet. > > That's why I wrote, earlier: I think you're looking at this from the opposit

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Monday, June 05, 2017 02:42:37 PM Ian Jackson wrote: > Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail- transport-agent)"): > > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Ian Jackson > > > > wrote: > > > It does seem that some maintainers are unclear on these principles, or > > > the

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)"): > I think you're looking at this from the opposite perspective that I > am. If you intent to ask the TC to override a Debian maintainer, I > think your arguments need to be much more detailed and documented on

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)"): > Jeremy Bicha writes ("Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on > mail-transport-agent)"): > > I think you're looking at this from the opposite perspective that I > > am. If you intent to ask the TC to overr

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 03:03:08PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Recommends bloat as a whole is a serious problem for the whole > project. I disagree. Both from my personal POV as well as from the feedback I get from Debian users. There are many things in Debian being complained about, "recommend

Re: What does "freeze" mean?

2017-06-05 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2017-06-05 at 13:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Paul Wise writes ("Re: What does "freeze" mean?"): > > Please note that the uswsusp shouldn't be needed any more as systemd > > handles hibernation IIRC. It is possible that removing uswsusp will > > fix the issue for you. > > uswsusp may not

/root directory

2017-06-05 Thread jvieira33
Hi, In the Debian tutorials, somewhere in the Debian file system[1] page it states: “When you refer to root directory it means you talk about the root of the file system: ‘/’. This is different from the home directory for the root user: ‘/root’.” The use of the same term with different me

Re: /root directory

2017-06-05 Thread Marvin Renich
* jvieir...@sapo.pt [170605 11:33]: > Hi, > > In the Debian tutorials, somewhere in the Debian file system[1] page it > states: “When you refer to root directory it means you talk about the root > of the file system: ‘/’. This is different from the home directory for the > root user: ‘/root’.” >

Bug#864255: ITP: vzlogger -- log a wide variety of measurements from smartmeters and sensors

2017-06-05 Thread Andreas Moog
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andreas Moog * Package name: vzlogger Version : 0.6.1 Upstream Author : Steffen Vogel * URL : https://github.com/volkszaehler/vzlogger/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C++ Description : log a wide variety of m

Re: Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Terry McKenna
Regarding "bloat" > I think we should take a test case or two to the Technical Committee. This one may be at the extreme, but it is one I personally encountered. I was installing nmap on a system (no gui) and was a bit shocked. The problem is well articulated by one post (an my thanks to him

Re: Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Terry McKenna wrote: > This one may be at the extreme, but it is one I personally encountered. I > was installing nmap on a system (no gui) and was a bit shocked. The problem > is well articulated by one post (an my thanks to him for the work around). > > https://b

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Terry McKenna writes: > Regarding "bloat" >> I think we should take a test case or two to the Technical Committee. > This one may be at the extreme, but it is one I personally encountered. I > was installing nmap on a system (no gui) and was a bit shocked. The > problem is well articulated by

Re: Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Brian May
On 2017-06-06 10:37, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM, Terry McKenna > wrote: > >> This one may be at the extreme, but it is one I personally encountered. I >> was installing nmap on a system (no gui) and was a bit shocked. The problem >> is well articulated by one post (an

Bug#592985: ITP: pragha -- Lightweight Music Player

2017-06-05 Thread Gabriel F. T. Gomes
Package: wnpp Followup-For: Bug #592985 Owner: "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" I have this software installed in my computer as a Debian package. Now, I'd like to check with the community if the package is ready for Debian, or if more work is needed (I'm willing to make the required changes for making it

Re: Re: Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Terry McKenna
I did not intend to drag the conversation off topic. It was merely an attempt to demonstrate the daisy chain effect of bloat. How a new dependency in a CLI tool could daisy chain an install of X11. (and I thought it was still open). To clarify and close this tangent... nmap (bug 714320 open

Re: Too many Recommends (in particular on mail-transport-agent)

2017-06-05 Thread Afif Elghraoui
على الإثنين 5 حزيران 2017 ‫08:43، كتب Ian Jackson: > > I think we should take a test case or two to the Technical Committee. > > Before doing that, it would be wise to try to find the answer to the > key question which the TC will ask. Suppose A recommends B. In what > way, or in what circum

Re: /root directory

2017-06-05 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:08 PM, José Vieira wrote: > In the Debian tutorials, somewhere in the Debian file system[1] page it > states: > 1. https://www.debian-tutorials.com/debian-file-system FYI, this page isn't maintained by Debian so we can't fix it. You might want to leave a comment on the

Daftar di Ralali Sekarang, dapatkan Voucher 100,000

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Re: /root directory

2017-06-05 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 6 juin 2017 13:10 +0800, Paul Wise  : >> I’m not an IT educated person, so I recognize that I may be suggesting a >> nonsense. However, as a fairly recent user of a Debian based distro, I got >> quite confused and somehow frustrated for not properly understanding what >> the guidelines were te