Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > On Mar 17, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >> It is for trivial cases (>90% of init scripts) that this is the most > >> interesting. Non-trivial cases could still be handled by shipping a > >> manually written init script together. > > > B

Bug#664699: ITP: lcmaps-plugins-c-pep -- C-PEP plugin for the LCMAPS authorization framework

2012-03-19 Thread Dennis van Dok
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dennis van Dok * Package name: lcmaps-plugins-c-pep Version : 1.2.1 Upstream Author : The Nikhef Grid Security Middleware Team * URL : https://wiki.nikhef.nl/grid/Site_Access_Control * License : Apache 2 Programming

Bug#664695: ITP: node-fstream -- Advanced filesystem streaming tools for Node.js

2012-03-19 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-fstream Version : 0.1.13 Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter * URL : https://github.com/isaacs/fstream * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Advanc

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Christoph Egger
Hi! m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > On Mar 16, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> The usual way of that to happen is for someone to grab a keyboard and start >> writing actual code, as opposed to e-mails. Do-ocracy ftw. > We already have the code for Linux systems, we even have two different > and

Bug#664689: ITP: argus-pep-api-c -- Argus PEP client library

2012-03-19 Thread Dennis van Dok
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Dennis van Dok * Package name: argus-pep-api-c Version : 2.0.3 Upstream Author : Valery Tschopp * URL : https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/EGEE/AuthorizationFramework * License : Apache 2 Programming Lang: C Desc

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Russ Allbery: > I would dearly like to stop using sysv init scripts for the trivial cases > as soon as I can, since they just introduce a bunch of possible bugs > without much real benefit. Same here. I haven't examined the situation too closely (maybe a more robust variant of start-stop-daemo

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Thomas Goirand: > I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does. > What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the > metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script > tiny library to simplify our init.d scripts would be enough. If it's embedded into shell, people w

Re: thoughts on blocking and downgrade attacks agains secure APT

2012-03-19 Thread Chris Knadle
On Sunday, March 18, 2012 21:33:05, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hi. > > I recently played with Nagios' check_apt script (more on that later) and > this brought my attention to the following issues. > > > As everyone knows, our packages/archives are in principle fully secured > ("secure APT

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Vincent Bernat
OoO Lors de la soirée naissante du lundi 19 mars 2012, vers 18:48, Thomas Goirand disait : >>> I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does. >>> What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the >>> metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script >>> tiny libra

Bug#664665: ITP: zita-ajbridge -- ALSA to JACK bridge

2012-03-19 Thread Alessio Treglia
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Multimedia Maintainers * Package name: zita-ajbridge Version : 0.1.0 Upstream Author : Fons Adriaensen * URL : http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org/linuxaudio/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/18/2012 05:23 AM, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > I would be pretty surprised if anyone took this any other way. You > started by saying that you don't really know what you're talking about, > and continued by spreading some rumors about a systemd deficiency you > have heard of from someone else. >

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/19/2012 09:23 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:35:10AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does. >> What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the >> metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script >>

Bug#664647: ITP: mpdas -- mpdas is an AudioScrobbler client for MPD written in C++

2012-03-19 Thread Gleb Golubitsky
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gleb Golubitsky * Package name: mpdas Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Henrik Friedrichsen * URL : http://50hz.ws/mpdas/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : mpdas is an AudioScrobbler client for

Re: Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-03-19 Thread Simon McVittie
On 19/03/12 14:50, Matthias Klose wrote: > first thing would be the documentation of each tuple currently used by > Debian (including the ones used for the non-default biarch multilibs). Are you looking for the sort of information Jonathan gave? If not, perhaps you could describe some well-known a

Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload

2012-03-19 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload"): > On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:12:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > It has always been possible to sort-of "duplicate" a system by doing > > "dpkg --get-selections >file" on one computer and running "dpkg > >

Bug#664642: ITP: node-rimraf -- Deep deletion (like rm -rf) module for Node.js

2012-03-19 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-rimraf Version : 2.0.1 Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter * URL : https://github.com/isaacs/rimraf * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Deep deletion (l

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-03-19 Thread Matthias Klose
On 19.03.2012 15:34, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Did you read the wiki page? Yes. Is the kind of information on which calling convention, basic system library structures, and so on form the ABI for a given tuple that I was giving examples of not what the upstream gcc f

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-03-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Did you read the wiki page? Yes. Is the kind of information on which calling convention, basic system library structures, and so on form the ABI for a given tuple that I was giving examples of not what the upstream gcc folks were looking for? I'm not sure I underst

Bug#664629: ITP: node-block-stream -- Stream of fixed-size blocks, with zero-padding when necessary

2012-03-19 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-block-stream Version : 0.0.5 Upstream Author : Isaac Z. Schlueter * URL : https://github.com/isaacs/block-stream * License : BSD-2-clause Programming Lang: JavaScript Description

Bug#664257: multiarch tuples are not documented/defined

2012-03-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Matthias Klose wrote: > >> While we strive to get multiarch ready for squeeze, there is >> currently nothing to point to what the multiarch tuples actually >> mean, neither on the Debian side nor on some kind of standards side >> like the FHS or LSB. This has to be docu

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-19 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:35:10AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I just had a look, and no, that's not what metainit does. > What it does is *generating* an init.d script, using the > metainit syntax as input. IMO, just a normal shell script > tiny library to simplify our init.d scripts would be e

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-19 Thread Arto Jantunen
Thomas Goirand writes: > On 03/19/2012 07:02 PM, Arto Jantunen wrote: >> I'm not sure if it would help if all of the media players Debian >> distributes were crippled so that they could be used to play dvd's via >> libdvdcss but not copy them (or which is the tool to circumvent, the >> decrypter

Bug#664618: ITP: python-mpd2 -- Python MPD client library (python-mpd fork)

2012-03-19 Thread Geoffroy Youri
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Geoffroy Youri * Package name: python-mpd2 Version : 0.4.0 Upstream Author : Jörg Thalheim * URL : https://github.com/Mic92/python-mpd2 * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : Python MPD client

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/19/2012 07:02 PM, Arto Jantunen wrote: > I'm not sure if it would help if all of the media players Debian > distributes were crippled so that they could be used to play dvd's via > libdvdcss but not copy them (or which is the tool to circumvent, the > decrypter or the copier). > If a DVD i

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-19 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/19/2012 01:09 PM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > 2012/3/18 Thomas Goirand : > >> On 03/18/2012 08:53 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote: >> >>> It's a cliche comparison but still, CSS decryption is the knife and >>> DMCA is the murder; the fact that murder is illegal does not imply >>> that knives are

Re: debian-multimedia.org considered harmful

2012-03-19 Thread Arto Jantunen
Romain Beauxis writes: > 2012/3/18 Thomas Goirand : >> On 03/18/2012 08:53 AM, Romain Beauxis wrote: >>> It's a cliche comparison but still, CSS decryption is the knife and >>> DMCA is the murder; the fact that murder is illegal does not imply >>> that knives are. >>> >> Well, the whole concept o

Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload

2012-03-19 Thread Guillem Jover
On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:12:08 +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > In addition selections for packages unknown to dpkg will not be > > accepted anymore. > > I'm not sure I understand this correctly but I'm afraid that this is a > serious regression. > > It has always been possible to sort-of "dupli

Bug#664595: RFH: php5

2012-03-19 Thread Ondřej Surý
Package: wnpp Severity: normal PHP5 is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. Using PHP? Loving PHP? Feeling lik

Re: Important information regarding upcoming dpkg 1.16.2 upload

2012-03-19 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Hi, On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Guillem Jover wrote: > With multiarch, non-installed selections w/o an architecture, do not > make sense, in addition there's no guarantee they match any entry > from the available file and the db could end up with a selection that > could not be addressed from the command