best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
This should be the last of the PAM-related threads on here for a while. :) One of the new bits in the libpam0g package in unstable (soon to reach testing) is that we need to restart PAM-using services because of a shlib change. There has been some fair criticism of the code used to manage this, s

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 00:07 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > The problem is that some of the services that have to be restarted are > display managers, and restarting them will kill any active X > sessions. Is there a fundamental reason for this or is it possible to have *dm behave more like sshd w

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:07:52 -0700 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is that some of the services that have to be restarted are > display managers, and restarting them will kill any active X sessions. The > question is, where should the line be drawn between trying to automa

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:38:35AM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:07:52 -0700 > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The problem is that some of the services that have to be restarted are > > display managers, and restarting them will kill any

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Roger Leigh
Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 08:38:35AM +0100, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Can't gdm and similar be "scheduled" for a reload instead of actually >> forced into an immediate reload? > > As you pointed out, gdm *does* have a nice reloading fun

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
Hi, Sam Hocevar zoy.org> writes: > On Sat, Aug 04, 2007, Joey Hess wrote: [initial comment moved here to fool gmane's "you seem to be top-posting" message] I've come across this intersting thread only today (I was without network access in early August). Although I haven't read everything, it

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-09-11, Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That way, the user can continue with the X session and the reload takes > place at logout. A suitable reminder can be output to remind the user > to actually logout - much like the kernel packages remind users to > reboot. The problem is in

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue September 11 2007 01:07:52 am Steve Langasek wrote: > Does anyone know of a case where this would give the wrong result? > I'm not sure what an xdmcp login would look like here, for instance, > or if startx creates a utmp entry that I should be concerned about > registering as a false posit

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 11 septembre 2007 à 08:42 +, Sune Vuorela a écrit : > The problem is in this case, as far as I know, that you might be unable > to unlock if you lock your screen without having restarted *dm. > (or if your screen locks automagically) That would be, without restarting the screensaver d

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:34:27AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On Tue September 11 2007 01:07:52 am Steve Langasek wrote: > > Does anyone know of a case where this would give the wrong result? > > I'm not sure what an xdmcp login would look like here, for instance, > > or if startx creates a utmp e

Bug#441838: ITP: midori -- very lightweight web browser based on WebKit

2007-09-11 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: midori Version : 0.0.6 Upstream Author : Christian Dywan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://software.twotoasts.de/?page=midori * License : GPL Description : very lightweight web browser based on WebKit Mid

Bug#441840: ITP: infernal -- RNA sequence comparisons

2007-09-11 Thread Steffen Moeller
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: infernal Version : 0.81 Upstream Author : Sean Eddy * URL : http://infernal.janelia.org/ * License : GPL Programming Lang: C, C++ Description : RNA sequence comp

Bug#441839: ITP: libeasymock-java -- Java library to generate Mock Objects for given interfaces

2007-09-11 Thread Jan-Pascal van Best
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jan-Pascal van Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libeasymock-java Version : 2.3 Upstream Author : Tammo Freese (OFFIS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.easymock.org/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: Java

Re: US mirror troubles

2007-09-11 Thread Scott Auge
The system is back up. If you have further trouble, please let us know. Thanks. Simon Paillard wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:41:51PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: 35.9.37.225, in http.us.debian.org, and ftp.us.debian.org, has been unreachable on port 80 from all the networks I have access to

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> Sounds like a cool idea, with a minor issue. The contents of the CDs > and DVDs can (and do) vary a little from arch to arch. But we could > easily do > > http://packages.debian.org/stable/cd1-i386/ > > etc. If anybody's interested, I can easily generate package lists from > the CD contents and

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:04:31AM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:16:17PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote: > >Am Freitag, den 07.09.2007, 15:06 +0200 schrieb Daniel Leidert: > >> > >> Ok. A few seconds later I found the > >> http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#search. However

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:07:52 -0700, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So the current thought is to use >who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -q '^:[0-9]' > to detect whether there are users logged in via X before restarting > the display managers. > Look reasonable? Umm. I am in X

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Evgeni Golov
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:55:00 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Umm. I am in X, right now. > __> who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -q '^:[0-9]' > __> > > Do I need to be root? > __> sudo who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -q '^:[0-9]' > __> Did you check the exit-code of grep? -q is kinda quie

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11139 March 1977, Frank Küster wrote: > - Packages are buggy, even copyright files are. We should add a > machine-readable field that indicates that the rest of the machine-readable > information might not be correct or complete. Thats the default mode, always. -- bye Joerg [Clint]: I'

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Juliusz Chroboczek
>> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > So, I don't know what "monoculture" you're referring to. Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that konqueror statistics are not significant since it's also

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ben Finney wrote: > Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > > I wasn't aware that Konqueror, Netsurf, or the many other non-Firefox > browsers had suddenly become unavailable in our community. There > doesn't appear to

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 06:26:45PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > >> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > > So, I don't know what "monoculture" you're referring to. > Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. > (Correct me if I'm wrong, b

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Patrick Schoenfeld
Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. > (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that konqueror statistics are > not significant since it's also used as a file manager.) > > If that's not a monoculture, I don't know what is. The point is t

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:26:45 +0200 Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Firefox monoculture is doing a lot of harm to our community. > > > So, I don't know what "monoculture" you're referring to. > > Popcon gives 23000 for iceweasel, 500 for dillo, and 18 for netsurf. > (Correc

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Sass
May as well add Opera to the list... On Tue September 11 2007 11:52:36 am Anthony Towns wrote: > nameinst vote old recent no-files > iceweasel 41897 22448 6839 1260010 > epiphany-browser 32506 11395 7614 13493 4 > w3m

Re: making debian/copyright machine-interpretable

2007-09-11 Thread Frank Küster
Joerg Jaspert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11139 March 1977, Frank Küster wrote: > >> - Packages are buggy, even copyright files are. We should add a >> machine-readable field that indicates that the rest of the machine-readable >> information might not be correct or complete. > > Thats th

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Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Ben Finney
Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web > > browser] software if they want to. > > Maybe a significant amount of sites that only work with IE > (unavailable on linux, at least without wine) or Firefox? I

Re: Package lists for (stable) distribution CDs/DVDs (integrating to package.d.o)

2007-09-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 03:47:22PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > >> Sounds like a cool idea, with a minor issue. The contents of the CDs >> and DVDs can (and do) vary a little from arch to arch. But we could >> easily do >> >> http://packages.debian.org/stable/cd1-i386/ >> >> etc. If anybody's inte

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> In the last five years, surfing countless thousands of pages, I've > encountered maybe a dozen that refused to work with an unknown > browser. In the last two years, I can't recall *any* sites that did > so. No doubt they exist, but IME, it's far from "a significant > amount". My favourite one

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:18:56 +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:55:00 -0500 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> Umm. I am in X, right now. >> __> who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -q '^:[0-9]' >> __> >> >> Do I need to be root? >> __> sudo who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -

Re: best way to check for an active X session from a maintainer script?

2007-09-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 02:17:28AM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: > Nothing changed: > = > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ who > luca pts/1Sep 12 01:58 (:0:S.0) > luca pts/2Sep 12 02:03 (:0:S.1) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ who | awk '{print $2}'|grep -q '^:[0-9]' > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Felipe Sateler
Ben Finney wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Ben Finney wrote: >> > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web >> > browser] software if they want to. >> >> Maybe a significant amount of sites that only work with IE >> (unavailable on linux, at least

"Outside udebs" capability: what are we waiting for?

2007-09-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I wrote this capability almost a year ago. It's languished in bugs #405886, #405888, #389450. This is the ability to load from a second source of udebs (non-free, for instance, or vendor supplied). It's utterly straightforward and actually rather uninvasive code. As designed it doesn't affec

Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-11 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I'm not sure I can take the Debian kernel team seriously any more. http://wiki.debian.org/KernelFirmwareLicensing states, in part: >Debian kernel team identifies the following three types of firmware, currently >found in the Linux kernel: > >1. Sourceless binary blobs with no license, no explicit

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 08:51:02AM +1000, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Again, I don't see what's preventing people from using [other web > > > browser] software if they want to. > > > > Maybe a significant amount

Re: Debian's Linux kernel continues to regress on freedom

2007-09-11 Thread John Kelly
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:39:05 -0400, Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Non-free material is being included in main for the benefit of *precisely >zero* >users. There's no two ways about this: this is a Social Contract violation. >I guess the Social Contract really is a joke. I don't