important changes in ifupdown 0.7~beta2

2011-11-13 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, Few moments ago ifupdown 0.7~beta2 entered experimental. This release, amongst others, fixes this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/477650. The change makes ifupdown to put interfaces down in the reverse order that they were brought up. If your /e/n/interfaces file relies on the behaviour of

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:39:51 +0100 Salvo Tomaselli tipos...@tiscali.it wrote: $HOME is not really nice but it could work. I have a tmp dir under my home directry and some script to clean up at every log on. $HOME seems like a very bad idea to me. At least if used by default...

Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

2011-11-14 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:14:18 +0100 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: No it does not work like you said. We know the matrix structure, not the kernel. We map and unmap manually. Doing as you said is inneficient and trash a lot cache and so on. This is getting insane. Please

Re: Bug#653208: ITP: node-ain2 -- syslog logging for Node

2011-12-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 15:43:44 +0700 Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: Ain can send messages by UDP to 127.0.0.1:514 or to the a unix socket; the latter however only for Node 0.4.x, as unix_dgram sockets support has been removed 0.5.x. What? And they say Node.js is a 'cool'

Migrating (finally?) from Tcl/Tk 8.4 to something newer.

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, Currently in unstable there are around 30 packages which depend on Tcl/Tk 8.4, which is quite old itself despite the fact that updates are still released for it. Tcl/Tk 8.5 is available for more than 4 years, Tcl/Tk 8.6 is coming soon, so I think it may be the time to deprecate Tcl/Tk 8.4

Re: Migrating (finally?) from Tcl/Tk 8.4 to something newer.

2011-12-30 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:43:29 +0300 Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: So I'd like the maintainers of the packages which still depend on Tcl/Tk 8.4 to update their packages to build against/use newer Tcl/Tk versions. Also, I'd like to ask, that if possible, try to fix change

Re: DEP-5 and files with white spaces

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:01:00 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Idea 2: Allow quotation marks. Not a solution on its own. What about a file named foo bar' baz? For a worst case what about files with newlines? You can double the delimiter to embed it into a string,

Re: Debian 5.0 support for VMware ESX 3.5/4.0/ESXi 4.1

2012-02-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:40:03 +0100 Piotrek P to.think.ab...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please be aware that VMware ESX 3.5 is NOT supporting any of Debian as Guest OS. Please be aware that VMware ESXi 4.1 IS supporting Debian 4.0, 5.0 as Guest OS. Please be aware that VMware ESX 5.0

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:37:29 +0100 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: just from what I've read in those two replies to this bug yet, I think I agree that this change should be reverted. And if you really want/need/do this change which needs changes in 30 (or so) other

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:37:29 +0100 Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: (And I'd prefer this bug to be one against ifupdown and not general, but YMMV.) But, definitly, filing a bug against general saying these and these package need to be fixed wont do it. Also, I find it fits

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:27:15 -0800 Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org wrote: When failure to execute a hook leads to interface being non-operational. Yes, that's probably a reasonable threshold. What should packages like miredo and wide-dhcpv6-client do? Both of these hooks have to

Re: Bug#661591: packages providing ifupdown scripts must have those scripts fixed if needed

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:47:57 +0100 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: Yes, that's probably a reasonable threshold. What should packages like miredo and wide-dhcpv6-client do? Both of these hooks have to do with Maybe they could stop pretending that the ifupdown configuration

Re: ITP: oqapy -- Photographic workflow application

2012-03-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:42:24 +0100 Vincent Vande Vyvre vincent.vandevy...@swing.be wrote: This application is designed to handle large collection of image files with full support of metadatas include geolocalisation. Sorry for this little pedantism, but data is already plural (singular

Bug#666242: ITP: clearwaita-theme -- Clearwaita theme for GTK+

2012-03-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by * Package name: clearwaita-theme Upstream Author : Jean-Philippe Fleury * URL : http://www.jpfleury.net/en/software/clearwaita.php * License : GPL-3+ Description : Clearwaita theme for GTK

Re: Bug#667496: ITP: python-smmap -- pure git implementation of a sliding window memory map manager

2012-04-04 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:40:28 +0900 TANIGUCHI Takaki tak...@debian.org wrote: Description : pure git implementation of a sliding window Sorry? Pure git? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:37:00 +0900 Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: * Package name: dparser Description : a scannerless GLR parser generator DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use.

Re: Bug#668556: ITP: dparser -- a scannerless GLR parser generator

2012-04-14 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:12:48 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: I can't really imagine someone writing a parser using such tools without having heard these acronyms first, though. And I'd risk saying they are actually more widely known than their expansions. During my

ifupdown news

2012-04-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, A new version of ifupdown has been uploaded to experimental yesterday, which brings some important changes. First of all, now it's possible to specify default values for various interface configuration options. This eliminates the need of hard coding of them in C source, as Ubuntu has

ifupdown/hurd [was: hurd-cvsfs -- CVS virtual filesystem for the GNU Hurd]

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On the other hand, I've spent the whole week-end fixing some bits in glibc/parted/grub, which we *DO* need for a release. By the way, how about helping a bit with making ifupdown work properly (and, since recently, build, of course) on Hurd? It'd be really helpful if anybody deeply

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 1 May 2012 20:18:07 +0200 Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: So just stop Postfix doing the conversion? Or teach Exim to announce 8BITMIME by default. No, Exim should not announce 8BITMIME, or it will violate RFC, not otherwise. Now it doesn't announce it, but accepts, so

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 1 May 2012 23:03:38 +0200 Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: I wonder why many people in this thread still don't understand this. And also I can't see why some find this annoying behaviour or something wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with what it does now, as

Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-05-02 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 2 May 2012 10:06:31 +0100 Jon Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 08:44:12AM +0200, Andrew Shadura wrote: No it doesn't if 8BITMIME annouces are turned off! If exim receives an 8 bit mail, even if it hadn't announced 8BITMIME in the EHLO response

Re: Bug#648345: marked as done (FTBFS on kfreebsd-amd64)

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:34:30 +0200 m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote: That doesn't look cosmetic to me. That looks like an FTBFS fix for kfreeBSD, which he gave you 5 months to do yourself before NMUing it. Since the package did not work before and will not work after, I do not

Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses

2012-05-07 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 May 2012 18:32:50 +0200 Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu wrote: since executable debian/copyright is not supported If we forget for a second about dh-exec and how it's used, this sounds really crazy :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Bug#672212: RFH: ifupdown: please help adding GNU/Hurd support

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: normal While we still have some time before freeze, it may be not too late to add GNU/Hurd support to 0.7 branch of ifupdown. For people familiar with GNU/Hurd it shouldn't be too hard, I guess. Currently, I don't have enough time for this, and I don't really have where to

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52:02 +0200 Gergely Nagy alger...@balabit.hu wrote: Git does have a complete view. What the above does, is tell dpkg-source to fold any changes made to the upstream sources into a single patch. Since the git tree already has the patches applied (with upstream

Re: why do people introduce stup^Wstrange changes to quilt 3.0 format

2012-05-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 18 May 2012 11:37:08 +0200 Adam Borowski kilob...@angband.pl wrote: Quilt is a kind of really primitive VCS. It does not make sense to use both it and a modern one, and when someone tries, this ends up with no end of woe. Quilt sprinkles its modifications around the source,

Bug#673832: ITP: critcl -- compiled runtime in Tcl

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by * Package name: critcl Version : 3.0.3 Upstream authors: Andreas Kupries akupr...@shaw.ca Jean-Claude Wippler j...@wippler.nl * URL : http://jcw.github.com/critcl/ * License

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:05:06 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Reassigning it back as it really is a bug in NetworkManager. I've asked for further justification. Just saying really isn't. If it is a bug in NetworkManager, then please show me where. auto eth0

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 19:05:06 +0200 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: If you suddenly decide to change the behaviour of ifupdown, then please co-ordinate such a change and get affected packages fixed beforehand. And let packages know what they need to change. Also, it's

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:23:25 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le samedi 16 juin 2012 à 19:38 +0200, Andrew Shadura a écrit : Also, it's network-manager who tries to be a replacement somehow compatible with ifupdown, not vice versa, so NM maintainers should take care

ifupdown should provide a way to disable interfaces configuration

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: ifupdown Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. To avoid similar issues to arise again in the future, I wonder, would it be feasible to implement something like Joss mentioned, i.e.

Re: ifupdown's changed hook handling breaks other packages.

2012-06-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:53:49 +0200 Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: Let's stop the mutual accusation part of this thread. P.S. Didn't mean to make anybody upset; I was a little bit tired back then, and I'm sorry that affected the way of me communicating with people. -- WBR,

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 23:03:17 +0200 Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: Try gcc/g++ 4.6 instead of 4.7. Maybe check if S-Lang load path (wherever that is stored) is initialized in a sane way. I had a similar issue where an integer was 0 all the time - although not being initialized with

Re: Build environment bug: 675125

2012-06-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:11:33 -0700 Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Variables in the .bss section will by definition get initialized to 0. For example, a C variable defined as static typename varname; must get initialized to 0, and the compiler and linker will stick it in

Re: duplicates in the archive

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 20:36:13 +0100 Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: If it can be justified. That's what the objective comparison would need to demonstrate. That's an established pattern in Debian - if someone wants to add something which is the same as something else, there

Re: Bug#678920: ITP: libzapojit -- library for accessing SkyDrive and Hotmail

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 21:36:20 -0400 Jeremy Bicha jbi...@ubuntu.com wrote: * Package name: libzapojit What a funny name, hehe :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [RFC] Add upstream VCS info to control file

2012-06-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:30:51 -0400 James McCoy james...@debian.org wrote: Since devscripts 2.11.7, you can do this: Vcs-Git: git://anonscm.debian.org/anonscm.debian.org/openstack/nova.git -b debian/unstable I thought the patch that added that also updated the documentation, but it

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:26:27 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: This kind of remark make be say that probably, it'd be nice to have ifconfig display a warning as this one: ifconfig is deprecated, please use ip instead It'd be terrible. Please don't even think of it, okay?

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 12:40:42 +0100 Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: As a distribution we have to decide on a default, and that is ip. We took the effort to remove all use of ifconfig from ifupdown and other related tools for wheezy precisely to make it removable and optional, so

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 19:44:25 +0200 Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: arp can be replaced by ip neigh, ifconfig by ip addr or ip link, route by ip route, ipmaddr by ip maddr, mii-tool by ethtool, netstat by ss, nameif by ip link, iptunnel by ip tunnel. iproute and ethtool

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism

2012-08-10 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:11:12 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Le vendredi 10 août 2012 à 17:04 +0900, hero...@gentoo.org a écrit : Debian is about the freedom to choose. No, it is not. No, it is. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 19:32:03 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: 3) ifupdown integration is really bad ifupdown is really a good framework, it offers hooks and and is properly integrated in many packages. ifupdown *was* a good framework, but Linux moved on. ifupdown

Re: Enabling uscan to simply remove files from upstream source

2012-08-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:21:21 +0200 Andreas Tille andr...@an3as.eu wrote: 2. If files matching are contained in the source tarball this will be repackaged except if the option --no-exclusion is given at uscan command line or if USCAN_NO_EXCLUSION is set in

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:51:27 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: What I mean is that this still happens: # ifup eth0 ... # ifconfig eth0 down # ifup eth0 ifup: interface eth0 already configured Why should it happen otherwise? You did *NOT* deconfigure the interface.

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:21:18 +0200 Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote: People talk about how ifupdown works well with other configuration tools, unlike Network Manager. But it doesn't, it only knows how to undo the configuration specified in /etc/network/interfaces. ifupdown

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-24 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:03:49 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: There is, it's called the kernel. No, there isn't, and there can't possibly be, as interface's configuration isn't only what ifconfig/route/ip reports to you (which is what kernel knows about it). -- WBR,

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, (As a Tcler I have to comment on this.) On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:36:43 +0200 Didier Raboud o...@debian.org wrote: 1) Forget about jimtcl, rely on existing tcl interpreters This is mostly repacking to avoid the embedded jimtcl copy, no packaging of it, go on as is done

Re: RFC: usb-modeswitch 1.2.0 release embedding jimtcl

2012-08-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:59:36 -0400 Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre mathieu...@ubuntu.com wrote: It also doesn't solve a second case we're trying to cover: the fact that usb-modeswitch would be the only package in the boot path on *Ubuntu* that would rely on Tcl. That's another reason why a

Re: O: ted -- lightweight .DOC editor

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 01:28:39 -0500 Ztatik Light ztatik.li...@gmail.com wrote: The only valid .DOC editors in Debian are LibreOffice and AbiWord, which are both somewhat bloated (especially LibreOffice, as it's in Java) ... That's not true. LibreOffice isn't written in Java, it's

Re: Bug#689207: ITP: rust -- a safe, concurrent, practical language

2012-10-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:22:01 +0200 Luca Bruno lu...@debian.org wrote: * URL : http://www.rust-lang.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: C/C++, Rust Description : a safe, concurrent, practical language Oh, please, please package it! It seems like it's

Re: major linux problems summary 2012

2012-11-13 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:29:04 -0500 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Or you could try one of the laptops from ZaReason; they specialize in designing, building, and supporting laptops specifically intended to run Linux. I haven't used one myself, but they look like a good outfit

Re: Do not CC me

2012-11-26 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 08:07:03 -0500 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Gmail does something similar, except not time-limited; it won't even re-send you a copy of a mail you send to a mailing list. This is apparently on the grounds that you already have a copy under Sent Items or

Re: Bug#695850: ITP: libteam -- library for controlling team network device

2012-12-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:21:43 +1100 Dmitry Smirnov only...@member.fsf.org wrote: Upstream Author: Jiri Pirko jpi...@redhat.com Jiří Pírko, please. He's Czech: https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/jiripirko -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Math Fonts for Iceweasel and MathJax

2012-12-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:50:05 +0100 Frédéric WANG fred.w...@free.fr wrote: Basically, Iceweasel must not depend on ttf-lyx, ttf-mathematica4.1, xfonts-mathml or any other font packages that would lead to the installation of Computer Modern fonts or Mathematica fonts. These old fonts

Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
to migrate them automatically. I'd like to hear opinions on this idea. The current version of the patch is attached. -- WBR, Andrew From: Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by Subject: Move loopback definition under /etc/network/interfaces.d, Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:27:13 +0100 Commit-Id: 534

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:12:29 +0100 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: On 06.01.2013 23:48, Andrew Shadura wrote: First of all, I'd like to remind that ifupdown supports source directive since very long ago (it was actually my very first patch to I've checked the squeeze

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:50:26 +0800 Chow Loong Jin hyper...@debian.org wrote: Please keep in mind that such a setup will break existing tools and scripts, which rely on finding the interface definitions in /e/n/i. E.g. the ifupdown plugin in NetworkManager doesn't know anything

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:12:29 +0100 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: ifupdown to add that support), so anyone can split their network config into small chucks and place them under /etc/network/interfaces.d — it's not done by default, however, yet. Please keep in mind that

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:31:30 +0100 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: There are probably more of them, but finding them all is left as an exercise for the reader. You can at least add network-admin from gnome-system-tools to the list, or external config tools like webmin. Not

Re: Ifupdown, loopback interface, /etc/network/interfaces.d

2013-01-07 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:42:40 +0100 Tollef Fog Heen tfh...@err.no wrote: I'd like to hear opinions on this idea. I think you should just get a wheezy-ignore tag from the release team and solve this properly for jessie. Also, your fix doesn't actually solve the RC bug either: Well,

Re: Bug#700630: ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects

2013-02-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 15 February 2013 16:44, Stefano Zacchiroli z...@debian.org wrote: That's great, thanks for giving this a try. We definitely need more good packages of self-hosted replacements for popular centralized (and often proprietary) services out there. gitorious surely qualifies and is very

Re: Bug#700630: ITP: gitorious -- Git based tool for collaborating on distributed open source projects

2013-02-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 10:43:41 +0100 Piotr Ożarowski pi...@debian.org wrote: Just some info: I'm currently working on packaging Rhodecode and its dependencies; Rhodecode supports both Git and Mercurial, which is great. By the way, I mostly have finished it. great! Please update

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-02-28 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello. On 28 February 2013 12:51, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote: Having that said the risk is real and it may be time to reconsider some choices including the use of Alioth itself for those who do not believe in openness. Chances are #700630 is going to rescue us all on that. Maybe we could

Re: git dangerous operations on alioth

2013-03-01 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:48:51 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 02/28/2013 08:33 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: we'd have both hg and git in one unified interface. That is a very nice feature. I saw few sites having that, for example bitbucket, unfortunatley, bitbucket

Re: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#699749: Incompatible change in the ifupdown hooks interface

2013-03-06 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:26:47 +0100 Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: On 6 March 2013 13:45, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: A quick grep over all unpacked packages shipping ifupdown hooks show 60 hook scripts which don't have ADDRFAM set. I haven't checked them

Re: Doing an anonymous git clone from bitbucket: is it possible?

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 18:27:33 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Is it possible to do an *anonymous* clone of a bitbucket repository using git? I saw it is possible to do a clone over ssh, but that's not what I want to do (ssh client asks for confirming the remote ssh host

Re: git-remote-hg/bzr (was: Doing an anonymous git clone from bitbucket: is it possible?)

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:15:27 +0100 Axel Beckert a...@debian.org wrote: I think so. The used concept and architecture seems superior to any external tools of which we have a few in Debian already: git-bzr-ng - bi-directional git to bzr bridge: never fear bzr again tailor - migrate

Bug#702745: ITP: pkgconf -- a pkg-config replacement

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by * Package name: pkgconf Version : 0.8.12 Upstream authors: Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org Jeff Horelick jdh...@gentoo.org Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org

Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-19 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:23:45 + brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: I've seen a lot of cases over the years of packages depending on gawk that do not need it. If you only need a standard nawk (new awk), you do not need to depend on gawk. mawk is smaller and faster

Re: Public service announcement about dependencies on gawk

2013-03-20 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:44:22 + brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: Well, as far as I know, mawk has some sort of terrible UTF-8 support, so it's a no way for many applications. Could you please explain? And if you haven't filed a bug report, could you please

Re: Bug#703507: ITP: re2 -- fast, safe C++ regular expression library

2013-03-20 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 20 March 2013 13:38, Adam D. Barratt a...@adam-barratt.org.uk wrote: This appears to have been in the archive for a couple of years already - http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/re2.html I wonder why is it still in experimental. Maybe it's worth re-uploading it to unstable? -- WBR,

Re: packaging PostBooks (business accounting/CRM/ERP)

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:36:04 +0100 Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: On the technical side, I found the project quite confusing at first because although it is open source, it is not conveniently distributed as a single source tarball, I had to build from SVN - and there are a

Re: packaging PostBooks (business accounting/CRM/ERP)

2013-03-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:09:20 +0100 Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.com.au wrote: Would you be able to take over the ITP bug I created? Then you will be the one closing it when you upload. I did a search for any ITP bug before I filed one

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-03-23 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, Brian, could you please clarify the state of the upstream development? (See below.) On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 08:58:20 +0100 Philipp Matthias Hahn pmh...@pmhahn.de wrote: On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 07:55:56AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: There is: you can use experimental to continue working

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-03-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:08:20 +0100 Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com wrote: So is my patch totally ignored? I sent it to upstream maintainer, next to debian mailinglist, attached to debian bug tracking system, sent to ubuntu mailinglist and also to launchpad ubuntu bug tracker. And

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:29:21 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to

Bug#705324: ITP: alacarte -- tile renderer for OpenStreetMap using Cairo and MapCSS

2013-04-13 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura andre...@debian.org * Package name: alacarte Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : Institut für Theoretische Informatik et al. * URL : http://github.com/alacarte-maps/alacarte/ * License : AGPL-3+ Programming

Re: Bug#705324: ITP: alacarte -- tile renderer for OpenStreetMap using Cairo and MapCSS

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 15 April 2013 12:56, Simon McVittie s...@debian.org wrote: On 13/04/13 07:22, Cyril Brulebois wrote: * Package name: alacarte alacarte | 0.13.2-1 |stable | source, all ... which is the (unrelated) GNOME menu editor. Call this new thing alacarte-maps after its github

Re: Bug#705324: ITP: alacarte -- tile renderer for OpenStreetMap using Cairo and MapCSS

2013-04-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 15 April 2013 13:30, Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by wrote: Well, I don't quite understand why third person comments on this; I've replied to Vincent right after he pointed out the name is already taken; when KiBi told me the same thing, I've retitled the bug. Meanwhile, still

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 18 April 2013 16:41, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: - Tcl/Tk: Wookey and Dimitrij did start on that in Ubuntu, patches are available in Debian bug reports. Currently the shared libraries are split out into separate packages, and are co-installable. Not yet tested if

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:07:44 +0100 Dmitrijs Ledkovs x...@debian.org wrote: On 18 April 2013 16:41, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: - Tcl/Tk: Wookey and Dimitrij did start on that in Ubuntu, patches are available in Debian bug reports. Currently the shared libraries

Re: multiarch and interpreters/runtimes

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:13:04 +0400 Sergei Golovan sgolo...@debian.org wrote: To Sergei (added to Cc): I'd like to join the effort in packaging Tcl/Tk and stuff, as I said before; but as you've been the most active person on the team for quite some time I'm a bit hesitant about

Re: Bug#709237: ITP: meta-suckless-tools -- meta-package installs simple commands for minimalistic window managers

2013-05-22 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 22 May 2013 00:11:20 +0400 Dmitry Papchenkoff dmitry.papchenk...@gmail.com wrote: 10 packages, excluding metapackage. This work was originally done for test-packages for mentors.debian.net as an effort to update and clean up suckless-tools. But after posting packages to

Re: Bwaaaaah I will tell my daddy^W^Wthe CTTE^W^Wa GR

2013-05-22 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 22 May 2013 23:05:01 +0200 Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote: Subject: Bwah I will tell my daddy^W^Wthe CTTE^W^Wa GR Couldn't you please finally stop behaving like a five years old? -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#717785: ITP: python-termcolor -- ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal

2013-07-29 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 13:29:14 +0800 Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Description : ANSII Color formatting for output in terminal So, ANSI or ASCII? :) -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [Debian-uk] Mini-Debconf in Cambridge, UK - November 14-17 2013

2013-08-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hi, On 16 August 2013 15:23, Paul Mellors prjmell...@gmail.com wrote: I'm organising a mini-conf in Cambridge for November this year. My employer ARM has graciously volunteered to host people for 4 days for a mix of sprint sessions and talks: For more details and to sign up to attend, please

Re: Bug#720518: ITP: tdbcpostgres -- Postgresql driver for the TDBC datatabase connectivity

2013-08-23 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 23 August 2013 00:30, Massimo Manghi mxman...@apache.org wrote: * Package name: tdbcpostgres Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : mxman...@apache.org * URL : http://tdbc.tcl.tk/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: (C,Tcl) Description :

Re: Bug#720518: ITP: tdbcpostgres -- Postgresql driver for the TDBC datatabase connectivity

2013-08-23 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 23 August 2013 13:01, Massimo Manghi mxman...@apache.org wrote: I decided to call the package after the source package name. This package is eventually generating tcl8.x binary packages that follow the policy. In future it might happen that multiple binary packages for binary

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sep 25, 2013 11:40 AM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: removing alternatives a lot. But later I'd like to have another transition (switching to 8.6 as default Tcl/Tk version). Do you have numbers what will break with 8.6? Not

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 25 September 2013 14:52, Sergei Golovan sgolo...@nes.ru wrote: There are about 30 packages left which unconditionally depend on tcl8.4 or tk8.4. We have to do some research and find how to port them to 8.5 or 8.6. When I have some free time, I occasionally port this or that package.

Re: Removing old unmaintained X drivers

2013-09-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:26:22 +0200 Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: xserver-xorg-video-s3 I'd vote for this one, but I can't maintain it, unfortunately. -- WBR, Andrew signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: how do deal with versionless mercurial software ?

2013-10-02 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hi, On 2 October 2013 17:27, Dominique Dumont d...@debian.org wrote: If you deem it unlikely that two commits are made in the same day (which happens all the time), how likely is it that upstream switches VCSs and does an important commit on the same day? that's not the issue. Try that:

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Oct 26, 2013 7:15 AM, Uoti Urpala uoti.urp...@pp1.inet.fi wrote: I am no longer willing to assume that Steve Langasek would act in good faith in evaluating init systems; he has posted false claims about systemd too many times for me to believe they would all be honest mistakes, and

Re: [PATCH] netplug - Allow to specify custom script file via param '-s'

2013-11-07 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Thu, 7 Nov 2013 22:37:01 +0100 Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, here is info: Months ago I sent patch for package netplug to ML. Someody wrote that I should send it to bugtracker. So I posted it to [1]. I also sent that patch also to upstream project, but no response.

Re: Cross-directory hard links in Debian packages

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:19:17 +0100 Helmut Grohne hel...@subdivi.de wrote: The tar file format supports hard links. Thus technically Debian packages can contain hard links. A significant number of packages including key packages such as bzip2, gzip, and ifupdown use this technique.

Re: Cross-directory hard links in Debian packages

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:42:18 +0100 Andrew Shadura and...@shadura.me wrote: The tar file format supports hard links. Thus technically Debian packages can contain hard links. A significant number of packages including key packages such as bzip2, gzip, and ifupdown use this technique

Bug#729736: ITP: inputplug -- XInput event monitor

2013-11-16 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura andre...@debian.org * Package name: inputplug Version : 0.0~hg Upstream Author : Andrew Shadura andre...@debian.org * URL : https://bitbucket.org/andrew_shadoura/inputplug/ * License : MIT/X11 Programming

Re: Better pdiff handling for apt

2014-01-04 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 20:40:34 +0800 Anthony Towns a...@erisian.com.au wrote: Salut tout le monde, Some time ago (*cough* 2009), I had a play with working out how to apply pdiffs more efficiently than apt currently does, and implemented a proof of concept in python [0]. There weren't

Bug#735917: ITP: stm32flash -- software for programming STM32 chips using serial bootloader

2014-01-18 Thread Andrew Shadura
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Andrew Shadura andre...@debian.org * Package name: stm32flash Version : 0.3~beta2 Upstream Author : Geoffrey McRae, Tormod Volden and others * URL : https://code.google.com/p/stm32flash/ * License : GPL-2+ Programming

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