Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign On Sun, May 11 2014, Steve McIntyre wrote: Thinking about the poor people trying to bootstrap things, I'm tempted to suggest doing this as two separate source packages. Make is *so* far down the bottom of the stack that adding a dependency on another language

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:12:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: On 11 May 2014 03:13, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: su does a bunch of things that are perfectly appropriate for something that creates a new login. That's its job. I am still a bit confused, isn't this only when you

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 17:49:46 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov x...@debian.org wrote: Users of sysvinit, are of two categories, those that reverted to or wish to stay with sysvinit or those that simply use the default. It is desired to migrate simply use the default to the new default, systemd, if that

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 11:55:19 +0200, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Marc Haber: Will it be the norm that the binaries replacing well-used shell scripts on early boot only implement the features that Lennart deemed useful? That would be a major turn-off, adding to the fact that early

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 15:28:34 +0200, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: I did not make a technical statement about systemd. I understand the reasons why Tech-CTTE chose it and while I am skeptical about the attitude of some upstream and Debian developers regarding handling bug reports

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 18:00:02 +0200, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: Le Sat, 10 May 2014 16:00:39 +0200, Yet: I do think its about high time systemd developers and packagers adopt an attitude of never break userspace like the kernel developers do. Sure that the attitude I don't care

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:13:01 +0200, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Every compiler toolchain upgrade breaks a bunch of packages, sometimes in subtle ways, and mostly because the code was in some way non-standard. You don't complain about that, do you? So why is systemd different?

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 20:57:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 19:53 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de, 2014-05-10, 19:13: Every compiler toolchain upgrade breaks a bunch of packages, For end users? I don't think so. If a

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: A couple of quotes from your mail: I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of almost all systemd's defenders. You're not looking for flames? You're

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 22:13:01 +0200, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: I also would not expect an end user to add su foo -c /do/whatever to /etc/rc.local. Your opinion may differ, that's OK. Especially people who are not as Debian-centric as we are tend to do exactly this. Simply because

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 23:11:10 -0700, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 11:12:08AM +1000, Brian May wrote: The name start-stop-daemon would suggest this is inappropriate for cron jobs, is that an invalid assumption I made? Perhaps a better name could have been

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 15:38:24 -0700, Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: I consider it of the highest importance that the transition to systemd not break running systems. +1 Some of the regressions introduced are going to turn out to be bugs in systemd. Some of them are going to turn out to

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 10 May 2014 16:27:00 +0200, Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org wrote: This is the part you should _NEVER_ do. It is YOUR responsibitiliy, as a maintainer (you are the maintainer, right?), to make sure that a bug that is reported in the wrong place gets sent to the right place. It is GOOD that

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Adrien Clerc
Le 11/05/2014 09:22, Marc Haber a écrit : Systemd (as upstart) sidesteps this problem to a large degree by handling uid switching as a native directive, avoiding the need to call out to a separate command. Just out of curiosity: What do I do when I convert an init script that parses a mode

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:56:17AM +0200, Adrien Clerc wrote: In systemd, the ExecStartPre directive can be helpful. But the documentation doesn't say if it is executed as the user defined in the User directive, or as root. I guess the latter is done, but I'm too lazy right now to test it :)

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11): Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from an init script? start-stop-daemon has: -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] Mraw, KiBi.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 08:57:29 schrieb Marc Haber: IMVHO opening a PAM session in an initscript is a bad idea from day one, as you don't know which modules are being called, as it can create bogus audit trails or cause other subtile issues. Just curious as the maintainer of another

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: systemctl status tells you quite clearly what went wrong, journalctl shows you what the program printed in case it did get started … and so on. If the system boots. If it does not, you cannot stick '-x' into an init script either. I haven't yet seen a system where booting

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. Mai 2014, 21:36:42 schrieb Laurent Bigonville: Le Sat, 10 May 2014 19:13:01 +0200, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de a écrit : Hi, [...] Telling Go away, the bug is elsewhere is just not an approbiate reaction for developers of a low level system component.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. Mai 2014, 15:38:24 schrieb Steve Langasek: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 04:00:39PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: The root cause of this bug is in the initscript of dirmngr that us using su instead of start-stop-daemon. su is starting a PAM session which then call

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 00:55:43 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do you call calling su

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 09:13:09 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sat, 10 May 2014 16:27:00 +0200, Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org wrote: This is the part you should _NEVER_ do. It is YOUR responsibitiliy, as a maintainer (you are the maintainer, right?), to make sure that a bug that is reported in

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 11 mai 2014 08:58 +0200, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de : Mind you, I am not defending the handling of this specific bug; certainly the systemd people's attitude is somewhat … let's call it abrasive … at times. And this abrasive attitude is hurting. It's hurting systemd, it's

Bug#747706: ITP: libtypes-datetime-perl -- type constraints and coercions for datetime objects

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-datetime-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster toby...@cpan.org * URL :

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:22:02 +0200, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: That is true, but it's even simpler if there's no script to stick '-x' into in the first place, because PID1 knows perfectly well how to do it on its own and will give you a complete status, including failed

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11): Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from an init script?

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:54:37 +0200, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ? 11 mai 2014 08:58 +0200, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de : Mind you, I am not defending the handling of this specific bug; certainly the systemd people's attitude is somewhat … let's call it abrasive … at

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:38:15PM -0700, Manoj Srivastava wrote: I would like to solicit the opinion of the developers about the value of adding Guile support to the default make package, at the expense of two smallish additional dependencies.

Re: Bug#706336: RFP: wmfs2 -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:24:49, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: wmfs2 Severity: wishlist WMFS2 is a lightweight and highly configurable tiling window manager for X written in C. wmfs2 is a free software distributed under the BSD license. it can be drive from keyboard or

Re: Bug#706338: RFP: dictator -- Rapid Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) text file reading

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:27:34, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: dictator Severity: wishlist Dictator is a program for on-screen reading of text files, developed with the intention of making it easier to read some of the fine electronic texts available on the net, such

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11): Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init script since 2001, how am I

Re: Bug#706342: RFP: alopex -- tiling window manager

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Du, 28 apr 13, 17:33:32, Anti Thesis wrote: Package: alopex Severity: wishlist Alopex is a tiling, tagging, window manager with status bar tabs. License: GNU GPL URL: https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/alopex Alternative URL:

Re: Bug#720394: RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, protable, self-sufficient containers

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp Control: retitle -1 RFP: lxc-docker -- create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers On Mi, 21 aug 13, 13:44:53, Johannes Graumann wrote: Package: lxc-docker Version: 0.5.3-1 Severity: wishlist Hello, As per http://www.docker.io/: Docker is an

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11): Just curious as the maintainer of another package using su in an init script since 2001, how am I supposed to start a non-root process from an

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Martin Steigerwald DESCRIPTION The su command is used to become another user during a login session. Invoked without a username, su defaults to becoming the superuser. The optional argument - may be used to provide an environment similar to what the user

Bug#747722: ITP: libmatch-simple-xs-perl -- XS backend for match::simple

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libmatch-simple-xs-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster toby...@cpan.org * URL :

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 mai 14, 18:56:24, Holger Levsen wrote: Having these bugs rott in a corner of the BTS almost nobody ever looks at is a disservice to our users. IMO there should be 0 bugs open against https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint= To also bring some numbers to this: $

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 03:18 AM, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: A couple of quotes from your mail: I find myself appalled at the rude and

Bug#747729: ITP: libtypes-uuid-perl -- type constraints for UUIDs

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-uuid-perl Version : 0.002 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster toby...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-UUID *

Bug#747731: ITP: libpackage-constants-perl -- list constants defined in a package

2014-05-11 Thread Niko Tyni
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niko Tyni nt...@debian.org * Package name: libpackage-constants-perl Version : 0.04 Upstream Author : Jos Boumans * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Package-Constants * License : Artistic or GPL-1+ Programming Lang:

Re: Guile language support in make

2014-05-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 11, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@ieee.org wrote: Building two binary packages from a single source seems hackish, since make and make-guile would require ./configure to be run again, and each target of the ./debin/rules might need cleanup/restart. Not unsolvable, but messy,

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:47:47PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: This one. The systemd package contains other dbus services that you don't want to try to exclude from a desktop system; and libpam-systemd provides necessary integration with policykit on those same systems. So basically what

Bug#747732: ITP: libtest-api-perl -- test a list of subroutines provided by a module

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtest-api-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : David Golden dagol...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.org/module/Test::API *

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Martin Steigerwald: Yet the su manpage clearly states that su doesn´t open a new login session. Does not. The manpage states that su is meant to change your UID _during_ a login session. If there is no such thing, the fact that it creates a new session for you should not be too surprising.

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: I believe all those bugs should be either reassigned to emacs23 (and soon 24) or just be closed with an informal message, also offering to reopen and reassign to emacs23/24 if applicable. [...] Closing them would be a disservice

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: Hi, is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? There are currently 184 reuqests open, some trivial requests already since two years (like [1]). I filed a ticket there a month ago, and still did not get any response yet. What is

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: start-stop-daemon has: -c, --chuid username|uid[:group|gid] Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD Unices? No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs),

Bug#747747: ITP: libtest-modern-perl -- precision testing for modern perl

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtest-modern-perl Version : 0.007 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster toby...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Modern

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11): Just curious as the

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:47:39 +0200, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: For other distributions (and other Unix based OS) most of (all?) the initscripts are already different anyway. Is it right to force that? Greetings Marc -- -- !! No courtesy

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: There is no way to avoid the userspace.exe blob Debian is soon made of. To be fair, the major Linuxes will soon be made of that. Red Hat wants it that way. Greetings Marc -- -- !! No

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de [140511 16:09]: On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Christian Hofstaedtler
* Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de [140511 16:12]: On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:47:39 +0200, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: For other distributions (and other Unix based OS) most of (all?) the initscripts are already different anyway. Is it right to force that? This is already

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Jörg Frings-Fürst
Hi, Am Sonntag, den 11.05.2014, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Daniel Pocock: On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: Hi, is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? [...] Other people have had problems with alioth too: - write permissions on VCS directory for new projects and by

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Matthias Klumpp
2014-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de: On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: There is no way to avoid the userspace.exe blob Debian is soon made of. To be fair, the major Linuxes will soon be made of that. Red Hat wants it that way.

Bug#747750: ITP: libtypes-uri-perl -- type constraints and coercions for URIs

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 * Package name: libtypes-uri-perl Version : 0.001 Upstream Author : Toby Inkster toby...@cpan.org * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/Types-URI *

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Daniel Pocock (2014-05-11 15:58:50) On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: is someone processing the items on the Alioth tracker? Thanks for raising that general question here, Ole. I have been wondering too. Other people have had problems with alioth too: [details snipped]

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2014 10:21 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote: 2014-05-11 15:55 GMT+02:00 Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de: On Sun, 11 May 2014 14:50:55 +0200, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: There is no way to avoid the userspace.exe blob Debian is

Re: Deprecating/removing racoon/ipsec-tools from Debian GNU/Linux and racoon from Debian/kfreebsd

2014-05-11 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hello, I wish racoon/ipsec-tools could stay for just a little longer. I'd like some time to evaluate it, against the *SWAN implementations, for GNU/kFreeBSD jessie. IPSEC has not been enabled yet in Debian default kernels, but it is a personal goal to have it in the jessie release. When I last

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that lintian detect these naked (not embeded) profile by default. Since it's something that not

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way to change that? I think it's quite clear and has been for a while that we need more active admins for Alioth. Other people have had problems with alioth too:

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes: Not for all eternity, but probably for as long as any significant number of people who are in a position to observe and participate in (or at least jump into) such a discussion have those concerns, yes. Meanwhile, many of the nice, polite, calm, and

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de (2014-05-11):

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 15:39 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: I believe all those bugs should be either reassigned to emacs23 (and soon 24) or just be closed with an informal message, also offering to reopen and reassign to

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:38:24PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: As the maintainer of the pam package in Debian, I assure you: this is a bug in dirmngr. System services should not (must not) call interfaces that launch pam sessions as part of their init scripts. su is one of those interfaces.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 11 May 2014 18:48:46 +0200, Laurent Bigonville bi...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber wrote: This will also cause double effort since Debian needs special handling that no other distribution obviously needs. Could you please explain me how it could cause double effort as the initscript the

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES roucaries.bast...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Jérémy Lal kapo...@melix.org wrote: Hi, Jonas Smedegaard brought to my attention that an image file [0] can embed a copyrighted ICC profile without license. Note that

Re: correct use of su

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Steve Langasek contributed: Yes. This has been the case for su in Debian since 1999, and to do otherwise would break a variety of configurations where session setup is required in order for, e.g., the su process to have access to the files of the target user. It

systemd-sysv: #747535 Was: Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Svante Signell
severity 747535 serious thanks Please Tollef :( On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 09:00 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2014 20:57:28 +0100, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 19:53 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: * Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de, 2014-05-10, 19:13:

dirmngr:#668890, #670700 Was: Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Svante Signell
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 18:48 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 13:16:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 11. Mai 2014, 12:53:39 schrieb Marc Haber: On Sun, 11 May 2014 10:04:15 +0200, Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org

Re: Avoiding systemd

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Russ Allbery contributed: by the non-stop sniping (for *months* now) by people like Kevin Chadwick, Well I have only responded to incorrect statements and have tried to ignore any that are not from debian developers and may not affect the future of debian but you can't

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: I haven't yet seen a system where booting with init=/bin/bash works but booting systemd in emergency mode does not. Have you added me to a killfile? I mentioned such a bug as happened in Arch testing in this very thread or do you mean a

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Kevin Chadwick
previously on this list Matthias Urlichs contributed: Will a script doing this be portable to other Linuxes or even BSD Unices? No. BSD has daemon(8). If you want portability, you probably need to check what's available. (start-stop-daemon, daemon (on BSDs), sudo) I can tell you

Bug#747812: ITP: python-fysom -- fysom provides a python finite state machine

2014-05-11 Thread Marcin Kulisz (kuLa)
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Marcin Kulisz (kuLa) deb...@kulisz.net * Package name: python-fysom Version : 1.0.15 Upstream Author : Maximilien Riehl m...@riehl.io * URL : https://github.com/mriehl/fysom * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 11/05/14 18:26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Daniel Pocock On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way to change that? I think it's quite clear and has been for a while that we need more active admins for Alioth.

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Daniel Pocock On 11/05/14 18:26, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Daniel Pocock On 08/05/14 12:27, Оlе Ѕtrеісhеr wrote: What is the reason that the processing there is so slow? Is there a way to change that? I think it's quite clear and has been for a while that we need more

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:29:22PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 15:39 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: [...] So, the natural thing to do would be to reassign them. I think the natural thing to do is to close with a message explaining how to reopen and reassign if the bug

Bug#747823: ITP: confiture -- Python library to parse configuration files

2014-05-11 Thread Antoine Millet
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Antoine Millet anto...@inaps.org * Package name: confiture Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Antoine Millet anto...@inaps.org * URL : https://github.com/NaPs/Confiture * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that [1] http://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=su+-c+path%3Adebian%2F+path%3Ainit If I counted correctly, there are 5

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 06:56:24PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Having these bugs rott in a corner of the BTS almost nobody ever looks at is a disservice to our users. IMO there should be 0 bugs open against https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint= If that's really desirable, I

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.05.2014 08:06, schrieb Norbert Preining: One of the things that systemd breaks (not checked on Debian, but on other systems), is that screen session are killed when logging out of the ssh session. This is a *fundamental* change in behaviour, and does break a lot of setups and systems.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Cameron Norman
El Sun, 11 de May 2014 a las 1:49 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org escribió: Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that [1]

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 11.05.2014 22:49, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 11.05.2014 19:37, schrieb Helmut Grohne: I trust you to be technically right on this. Still the number of packages getting this wrong is stunning[1]. Therefore I'd argue that [1]

Re: ignoring bugs with no maintainer (Re: Removal of emacs23 from unstable/testing)

2014-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 10 May 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: On Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2014, Rob Browning wrote: If we can, I'd like to remove emacs23 from unstable/testing before the freeze. To make that possible, any relevant packages will need to migrate to emacs24, or just include support for emacs24.

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, May 11, 2014 at 03:58:50PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit : Other people have had problems with alioth too: - write permissions on VCS directory for new projects - mailing list creation requests waiting for admin approval Thanks Daniel for raising the issue. For mailing lists, I

Re: copyrighted embedded ICC profiles in images

2014-05-11 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le samedi 10 mai 2014 à 13:37 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit : This sounds like a ludicrous overreach of copyright. Isn't an ICC descriptive, rather than creative? According to the International Color Consortium, profiles provide content

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Russell Stuart
On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 21:38 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: I'm not disagreeing, I think we're providing a much poorer service level for Alioth than what we should do. Sadly, I don't have the motivation to spend much time there nowadays. I have for years hosted my own projects in a minimalistic

Re: Alioth tracker

2014-05-11 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Russell Stuart wrote: sourceforge is closed source. That is no longer the case, sourceforge folks implemented a new codebase called Allura, are running it, released it under the Apache license and continue to develop it as an Apache Software Foundation project.

Re: systemd pulled in automatically

2014-05-11 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:20:33PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote: Can we please separate the bugs in this thread: This one is about dirnmgr not network-manager and gdm3 dragging in systemd as init default, #747535. Speaking of that, I made a suggestion that AFAIK fixes the issue, which isn't in

Re: Avoiding system d

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 11/05/14 09:18, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2014 19:47:10 +0100, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sat 10 May 2014 at 12:05:25 -0400, John wrote: A couple of quotes from your mail: I find myself appalled at the rude and domineering attitudes of almost all systemd's defenders.

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez
On 10/05/14 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: we should also prepare for that situation and ensure that any switch of an init system via package installation results in a critical debconf warning so that no one is caught by surprise. This has the advantage of future-proofing against any later

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com writes: On 10/05/14 00:50, Russ Allbery wrote: we should also prepare for that situation and ensure that any switch of an init system via package installation results in a critical debconf warning so that no one is caught by surprise. This has

Re: systemd pulled in automatically

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Bas Wijnen wij...@debian.org writes: If the order of the dependencies of libpam-systemd is switched, so it becomes systemd-shim | systemd-sysv, the result will be: - If systemd is not installed, systemd-shim will be installed and the original init system will continue functioning. - If

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 08:06:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: One of the maintainers of systemd says that otherwise he don't thinks this behavior is unsuitable for release: https://bugs.debian.org/747535#46 This, however, *is* the wrong way to have this discussion. Arguing over whether

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org writes: RC bug severity has an important function in blocking package migrations to testing. If someone is concerned that a particular regression in behavior is sufficiently severe that it should block the new version of the package from testing, they

Re: systemd-fsck?

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 09:10:21AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: The plain fact: Using systemd breaks something that worked for probably a decade or longer before however long that su is in that init script. So on what account do you call calling su in an init script a bug? It may not be the

Accepted aumix 2.9.1-3 (source all amd64)

2014-05-11 Thread Stefan Ott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:06:42 +0200 Source: aumix Binary: aumix-common aumix aumix-gtk Architecture: source all amd64 Version: 2.9.1-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Stefan Ott ste...@ott.net Changed-By: Stefan Ott

Accepted libio-socket-ssl-perl 1.984-1 (source all)

2014-05-11 Thread Angel Abad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 10:01:07 +0200 Source: libio-socket-ssl-perl Binary: libio-socket-ssl-perl Architecture: source all Version: 1.984-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Perl Group

Accepted libpath-tiny-perl 0.054-1 (source all)

2014-05-11 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 21:07:24 +0200 Source: libpath-tiny-perl Binary: libpath-tiny-perl Architecture: source all Version: 0.054-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Perl Group

Accepted wajig 2.14 (source all)

2014-05-11 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 09:47:20 +0200 Source: wajig Binary: wajig Architecture: source all Version: 2.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Graham Williams graham.willi...@togaware.com Changed-By: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe

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