Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 08:59:53AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > So your doomsday scenario is that if you license something > > GPLv2+, someone might fork and modify it to be GPLv3+, > > I was under the impression that forks couldn't change licenses. Is the > scenario which Clint describes (le

Re: GPLv2-only considered harmful [was Re: GnuTLS in Debian]

2014-01-03 Thread Clint Adams
On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 10:58:32AM +0100, David Weinehall wrote: > That's also why I *don't* use BSD-style licenses for software that > I write, but rather GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1. So if someone takes your LGPLv2.1-only software and adds GPLv2-only code to it, do you feel similarly betrayed because you

Bug#734131: ITP: python-jmespath -- JSON Matching Expressions

2014-01-03 Thread TANIGUCHI Takaki
Package: wnpp Owner: tak...@debian.org Severity: wishlist * Package name: python-jmespath Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : James Saryerwinnie * URL or Web page : https://github.com/boto/jmespath * License : MIT Description : JMESPath is python library which allows

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > If I don't keep it somewhere, then someone could potentially upload a > package named base. > > On the other hand, I'm not sure that it actually matters if someone was > to upload such a package at some time in the future. I cannot see any p

Bug#734112: ITP: b2sum -- BLAKE2 family of hash functions -- command-line tool

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Ransom
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert Ransom X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: b2sum Version : 20130131 Upstream Author : cont...@blake2.net * URL : https://blake2.net/ * License : CC0 Programming Lang: C Description :

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > > Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as > > deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it as an option. > > why? > > and then you'd want to remove the base package

Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 07:12:51PM +, Roger Leigh wrote: > You aren't guaranteed to have a controlling terminal, particularly when > run via buildd. So while stdin/out/err are all connected and > functional, they are either null (stdin) or pipes (out/err). If you > need to output anything, th

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 03/01/14 01:39 PM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all > of them (except DMO), that should be enough. Simon wanted "a general, user-friendly way to deal with situations like this". This is neither. > And of course strictly speaking i

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Don, On Freitag, 3. Januar 2014, Don Armstrong wrote: > Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as > deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it as an option. why? and then you'd want to remove the base package in 5 years or keep it forever or?? > Would t

Re: porting OpenRC on kFreeBSD and Hurd

2014-01-03 Thread Julián Moreno Patiño
Hello, Good news, I see it there: http://packages.qa.debian.org/o/openrc.html https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openrc&suite=experimental Thanks a lot. Kind regards, -- Julián Moreno Patiño Debian Developer .''`. Debian GNU/{Linux,KfreeBSD} : :' : Free Operating Systems `. `' h

Re: Bug#734053: please remove the base pseudo package

2014-01-03 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Holger Levsen wrote: > http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/b/base.png and > http://qa.debian.org/data/bts/graphs/g/general.png also underline my point. Instead of removing it, I'd like to just prominently mark it as deprecated, and coordinate with reportbug to never show it

VLC, video stuttering with ALSA sound output

2014-01-03 Thread Виталий Филиппов
Hi! Starting somewhere around VLC 2.x, I experience "video stuttering" problems on some files, mostly >= 720P, MKV/H.264+AC3, but not only on such files - for example I also experience it on some of MPEG2 files (mpeg container, mpeg2 video and audio codecs). HW acceleration is disabled, the

Re: 'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 06:51:08PM +, Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Can anyone answer the following question which is puzzling me; > I have a piece of csh code which gets called during the build of a package > i'm maintaining. it does the following: > > echo "useful information" > /dev/tty > >

'tty' output on kFreeBSD, etc. within sbuild

2014-01-03 Thread Alastair McKinstry
Hi, Can anyone answer the following question which is puzzling me; I have a piece of csh code which gets called during the build of a package i'm maintaining. it does the following: echo "useful information" > /dev/tty within the script. (stdout, stderr being redirected, I think). This fails on

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Guillem Jover , 2014-01-03, 13:13: Given that you (at least) seemed to show opposition to the field (AFAIR), and that you've done an independent implementation of the runner; does 692704 mean that you changed mind? No, it just means that I gave up. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: GnuTLS in Debian

2014-01-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery Wildly off-topic, but hey. :-) > Yeah, I saw that also in Bernhard's reply. That confusion had honestly > never occurred to me before since, despite the visual similarities, the > words are completely unrelated in English. The etymologies are disjoint: > idiot comes from French

Re: Bug#733860: ITP: pond -- Forward secure, asynchronous messaging for the discerning.

2014-01-03 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Ximin Luo > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > Owner: Ximin Luo > > * Package name: pond > Version : 0:git~2014-01-01 You might want to use a version number such as 0~20140101+git+$sha1 or similar. 0:git probably isn't even valid as a Debian version number, since : is used

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Виталий Филиппов
Does it work if you have Debian, deb-multimedia, another third-party repo, and you just want to remove deb-multimedia? If you have other 3rdparty repos, you'll also need to set 1001 for all of them (except DMO), that should be enough. And of course strictly speaking it may be unsafe, but I t

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 01/03/2014 03:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to > official ones. At least it did in my case. Does it work if yo

Re: Bug#733912: RFP: s6 - a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision

2014-01-03 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Control: reassign -1 wnpp On Jo, 02 ian 14, 06:24:40, Sergiusz Pawlowicz wrote: > Package: s6 > Version: 1.1.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Please pack s6[0], a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed > to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in > the line of daemontools and runi

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 03 Jan 2014, Roger Leigh wrote: > If file-rc and/or the maintainer scripts somehow restored the links > incorrectly, then insserv will ignore the header and preserve your > customisations (not the link ordering, but the runlevels to start > and stop in). This would certainly be the cause o

Re: porting OpenRC on kFreeBSD and Hurd

2014-01-03 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 02:22:54PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > How come OpenRC is still not available? The binary name `rc' was taken by src:rc, so zigo was working with the Gentoo upstream folks on fixing this together, so there'd be little (to no) delta. I very much appreciate how long of a

Bug#734075: ITP: astroid -- rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python's AST

2014-01-03 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: astroid Version : 1.0.0 Upstream Author : Logilab * URL : http://www.astroid.org/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description : rebuild a new abstract syntax tree from Python'

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:57:00PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Roger Leigh codelibre.net> writes: > > > If you're referring to the commit above, it's because we've fully > > transitioned to dependency-based boot for wheezy, so the hardcoded > > runlevel ordering isn't used any more (at all),

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Roger Leigh codelibre.net> writes: > Did you try running insserv by hand to restore the links? Did > the maintainer scripts restore any of the links for you? I’ve tried both (unsure if what I tried was right; dpkg-reconfigure initscripts and insserv with most combinations of -d, -f, the name of

Re: porting OpenRC on kFreeBSD and Hurd

2014-01-03 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 01:49 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > After rebuilding ifupdown, sysvinit, udev and openssh, I could install > OpenRC normally, as I was used to. Hoping that source-full uploads will > happen before I fix the /sbin/rc issue, otherwise I'll ask for BINnmu. How come OpenRC is s

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 01/03/2014 02:11 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Someone broke the setup. This happens with any system. > I just can’t figure it out because, thanks to insserv, > even with file-rc it became too complex to fix. I actually agree with Joss, here, sorry. And going back to the 80ies isn't really what

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
[ adding autopkgtest-devel to Cc: ] On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 12:36:38PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > > FWIW, an old MBF about absent "Testsuite: autopkgtest" is at [1] and > > looks halfway through completion. Some of the already resolved issues > > were initially marked wontfix, but have then been

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 3 Jan 2014, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 03 janvier 2014 à 10:20 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > > I was running file-rc > > > And: why did this happen in the first place? > > I think you answered to that question yourself. Yes, with a simple BSD-style /etc/rc script this w

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 10:20:57AM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > after a dist-upgrade, my sid system wouldn’t boot at all any more: no > network (because udev didn’t rename eth1 to eth0), read-only filesystem, > I was dumped into a root shell after being asked for the root password, > but by then

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Stefano Zacchiroli writes ("Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?"): > To save others the time of doing this, in attachment the results of > checking for debian/tests/control with apt-file and of grep-dctrl'ing > Sources to check for "Testsuite: autopkgtest" field e

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-03 Thread Ian Jackson
Guillem Jover writes ("Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?"): > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 10:42:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Magic number(s): > > Files usually start with the following string: > > ! > > This is not enough, this just marks any ar archive, the distinguishin

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Jakub! On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:35:28 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-27 at 17:41:26 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > the use of autopkgtest as documented in DEP 8 is taking momentum. > > > > How about allowing a "Testsuite" field to replace the "XS-Testsuite" field? > > Last ti

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On 01/03/2014 07:41 AM, Виталий Филиппов wrote: > AFAIK the apt_preferences method is rather simple: > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Debian > Pin-Priority: 1001 > > With that setting 'apt-get dist-upgrade' downgrades DMO packages to > official ones. At least it did in my case. > > For me, findin

Re: Removing packages from unofficial repositories

2014-01-03 Thread Виталий Филиппов
Hi all, I recently decided to migrate my Debian system away from deb-multimedia.org, where official packages exist. I used apt preferences to help me downgrade packages from deb-multimedia back to Debian testing, where an alternative version from testing exists. However, I would expect that most u

Re: Registering a media type for Debian binary packages ?

2014-01-03 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi Charles! On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 10:42:09 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 02:23:00AM +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > > This sounds great in theory, but I'm worried that in practice this > > might just make the situation worse, by making applications having > > to support n

Re: [RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi Thorsten, Le vendredi 03 janvier 2014 à 10:20 +, Thorsten Glaser a écrit : > I was running file-rc > And: why did this happen in the first place? I think you answered to that question yourself. PS: and you keep wondering why people want to change anything to our s well working init

[RFH] !!SOS!! totally hosed init system

2014-01-03 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi *, after a dist-upgrade, my sid system wouldn’t boot at all any more: no network (because udev didn’t rename eth1 to eth0), read-only filesystem, I was dumped into a root shell after being asked for the root password, but by then the filesystem was read-write. I was running file-rc and decided

Re: [DEP 8] About "XS-Testsuite: autopkgtest": time to remove "XS-" ?

2014-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 06:09:51PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2013-12-27 17:35, Guillem Jover wrote: > > Do you know how many packages are there with autopkgtest support, > > and how many do not declare the field? > > For the former, apt-file search -a source debian/tests/control should > do

Bug#734040: ITP: flask-migrate -- SQLAlchemy database migrations for Flask applications using Alembic

2014-01-03 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Bechtold * Package name: flask-migrate Version : 1.1.0 Upstream Author : Miguel Grinberg * URL : https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/flask-migrate/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Python Description : SQLAl