Re: The story behind UPG and umask.

sense - it has the > benefit of simplicity, if not elegance. Agreed, but why not make the decision to use UPG explicit by setting "UPG = True" in a suitable configuration file in addition to each of the discussed heuristics? -- .''`. Wolodja Wentland : :' : `.

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:44 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > Also, we should mention somewhere (the install documentation?) that > non-free should be enabled to install microcode fixes which may be > critical to maintain the system stability. Could you elaborate on this please? I have been runnin

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 13:45 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > > I think this should be mentioned somewhere *much* more prominent. I > > consider myself pretty tech-savy, but only stumbled upon this just now > > on the this list. Can a non-fre

Re: Bug#712908: ITP: stencil-clojure -- implementation of the Mustache template system for Clojure

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 20:09 +0200, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza" > > * Package name: stencil-clojure > Version : 0.3.2 > Upstream Author : David Santiago > * URL : https://github.com/da

Re: Bug#716981: ITP: libcore-cache-clojure -- cache abstraction library

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 16:38 +0200, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: "Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza" > > * Package name: libcore-cache-clojure > Version : 0.6.2 > Upstream Author : Michael Fogus > * URL : https://github.c

Re: Bug#717083: ITP: pychef -- Python library to interact with the Chef server API

On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:23 -0300, Miguel Landaeta wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Miguel Landaeta > > * Package name: pychef > Version : 0.2.2 > Upstream Author : Noah Kantrowitz > * URL : https://github.com/coderanger/pychef > * License

Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: jackson-core Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : FasterXML, LLC, Seattle, USA * URL : http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java Description

Re: Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 00:09 +0100, Stephen Nelson wrote: > On 10 Aug 2013, at 19:17, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Wolodja Wentland > > * Package name: jackson-core > Version : 2

Re: Bug#719323: ITP: jackson-core -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 12:52 +0100, Stephen Nelson wrote: > On 11 Aug 2013 00:32, "Wolodja Wentland" wrote: >> It is not, but thank you for catching this and reviewing WNPP bugs! :) >> libjackson-json-java is version 1.* of the JSON processoe by FasterXML >> wh

Bug#720503: ITP: jackson-annotations -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java -- annotations

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: jackson-annotations Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : FasterXML, LLC, Seattle, USA * URL : https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-annotations * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang

Bug#720504: ITP: jackson-databind -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java -- data binding

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: jackson-databind Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : FasterXML, LLC, Seattle, USA * URL : https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Java

Bug#720505: ITP: jackson-dataformat-smile -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java -- Smile dataformat

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: jackson-dataformat-smile Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : FasterXML, LLC, Seattle, USA * URL : https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-smile/ * License : Apache-2.0

Bug#720506: ITP: jackson-dataformat-yaml -- fast and powerful JSON library for Java -- YAML dataformat

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: jackson-dataformat-yaml Version : 2.2.2 Upstream Author : FasterXML, LLC, Seattle, USA * URL : https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-yaml/ * License : Apache-2.0 Programming

Bug#726025: ITP: tigris -- Stream-based JSON string escaping for Clojure

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: tigris Version : 0.1.1 Upstream Author : Matthew Lee Hinman * URL : https://github.com/dakrone/tigris * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Clojure, Java Description : Stream

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 18:08 +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > On 10/24/2013 17:40, Steve McIntyre wrote: > > This would mean: > [...] > > * Tweak CD and installer builds: > >+ change what happens with no desktop selected to use xfce instead > > of Gnome (netinst, DVD, BD etc.) > >+ A

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little > discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the > day for the change to make sense. Now we have rather more time, I > feel. Let's change the def

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 09:00 +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:47:00AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-25 at 10:40 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Why force > > > *every* user of the installer to make that choice, when many of them > > > find the v

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 01:41 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Wolodja wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 16:40 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> This goes back to during the wheezy release cycle. There was a little > >> discussion around a change in tasksel [1], but rather too late in the > >> day fo

Re: Bug#648017: ITP: local-file -- small clojure library

On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > * Package name: local-file > Version : 0.1.0 > Upstream Author : Arthur Edelstein > * URL : https://github.com/arthuredelstein/local-file/ > * License : > Programming Lang: Java > Description

Re: Bug#648017: ITP: local-file -- small clojure library

Hi Mathieu, On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 12:28 +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Programming Lang: Java This should probably be "Clojure" and not "Java" :) -- Wolodja 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC signature.asc Description: Digital signature

FTBFS bugs against binary packages

Hello, we are seeing an increasing number of users in #debian-next asking about FTBFS bugs that are reported by apt-listbugs during upgrades. Most of those users are not familiar with acronyms such as FTBFS or if these bugs apply to their setup. The underlying problem seems to be that a subset of

Metapackages - What to do with them? (was: debian-ctte Re: Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome)

I am posting this on -devel because I think that it rather belongs here than in the context of #681834 and the discussion in -ctte On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:41 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 octobre 2012 à 22:07 -0600, Bdale Garbee a écrit : > > I personally believe that metapac

Re: git.debian-maintainers.org, or somewhere else

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 18:35 +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/vsftpd is refering to > http://git.debian-maintainers.org/?p=daniel/vsftpd.git. The > reference is in the left column of the page, under the links for > vsftpd title ( Debian Source Repository (Git) ).

Bug#699546: ITP: libslingshot-clojure -- Enhanced throw and catch library for Clojure

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Wolodja Wentland * Package name: libslingshot-clojure Version : 0.10.3 Upstream Author : Stephen C. Gilardi * URL : https://github.com/scgilardi/slingshot/ * License : EPL-1.0 Programming Lang: Clojure, Java

Re: DM upload permission

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 14:08 +0100, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mittwoch, 6. März 2013, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Fwiw since it is backwards compatible, dput-ng works fine from git in-place > your point being? I guess the point is that you can use dput-ng even if you don't want to replace your "

Re: to make debain package

On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 14:08 +0100, forum::für::umläute wrote: > On 2014-02-12 13:47, ANGESH KUMAR wrote: > > I want to make a debian package of my software so how to that > > one. I couldn't find any proper document. can you help me by document or > > link so that i can understand. a

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 16:19 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:42:19PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > And can I pass my granddad's phone call on to you when he is stuck > > choosing among names that are absolutely obscure to him like "GNOME", > > "Xfce", and "KDE"?

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 23:52 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Wolodja Wentland writes: > ... > > One thing I dislike about switching the default DE is that it puts a lot of > > people active in support in a position in which they might not actually be > > as > > fami

Re: Debian default desktop environment

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 12:55 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 04/04/2014 09:55 PM, Undefined User wrote: > > 2014-04-04 10:52 GMT-03:00 Jonathan Dowland > >: > > > > We go over the same ground over and over. I'm increasingly in favour > > of *no* > > default.

Dependencies of metapackages

Hi all, is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then recommend packages they are meant to pull in? The rationale behind this question is [0] that we see a plethora of users in #debian who ask questions like: "Why did apt remove all my system??⸘one!one!eleven!" and we h

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 09:26 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:40:30PM +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > is there a specific reason why metapackages depend rather then recommend > > packages they are meant to pull in? > The statement that metapackages de

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:32 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Wolodja Wentland (30/08/2011): > > It is my impression that the problems mentioned in my initial mail can > > be solved by changing metapackages (like those mentioned by Cyril in > > his reply) to use Recommen

Re: Dependencies of metapackages

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 17:37 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On mar., 2011-08-30 at 16:11 +0100, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > > > I agree that a general change of all metapackages is probably not a good > > idea, > > but I think that changing the root-nodes o

Re: DEP5: proposed versioned url for Format: does not work

On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 15:46 +0600, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > DEP5 is in the process of being incorporated into the debian-policy > > package, and once that is finished, there will be a stable URL to > > the spec (with a version number in the URL), something like > > > > http://www.debia

Re: Bug#762194: Summary:Re: Bug#762194: Proposal for upgrades to jessie (lendows 1)

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 12:30 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:14:07PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: > > That's even more unlikely than to add a debconf message (which would be > > package-owned). Yes, debian-installer is frozen. This would add new > > udebs, new strings, new