Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:02:51AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then > > that's > > in progress, see: > > > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 10:38 +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a > > > constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. > > > > Do you have any proof for

Bug#563606: ITP: wordpress-xrds-simple -- XRDS-Simple plugin for WordPress

2010-01-03 Thread Alexander Gerasiov
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexander Gerasiov * Package name: wordpress-xrds-simple Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : DiSo Development Team http://diso-project.org/ * URL : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xrds-simple/ * License : Expat Programm

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 04, Brian May wrote: > Somewhere I got lost in this discussion. You did not, he did. > In that case, how can correct programs be broken if IPv6 is not supported? > Surely it is just a matter of binding to IPv4 and ignoring the error that > occurs when trying to bind to the IPv6 socket (or

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > If we're talking about Linux 2.6.32 support for pv_ops dom0 here, then that's > in progress, see: > > http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2009-12/msg01127.html > > the 2.6.32 tree should be available shortly after J

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 09:49:24PM +0300, William Pitcock wrote: > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a > > constant FAIL state regarding support of current kernels for years. > > Do you have any proof for this claim? xen.git seems pretty up to date to > me (2.6.31.6

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Brian May writes: > In that case, how can correct programs be broken if IPv6 is not > supported? Surely it is just a matter of binding to IPv4 and ignoring > the error that occurs when trying to bind to the IPv6 socket (or vice > versa if IPv6 is supported but not IPv4)? I don't believe that co

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:26:34AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > > > will not be supported to

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Brian May
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > > a) netstat garbling the addresses of connected endpoints > > This is one of the reasons why bindv6only should be set. > > I'm not arguing about bindv6only. I'm only arguing programs should work > without ipv6 loaded. Somewhe

Bug#563589: ITP: libtemplate-plugin-clickable-email-perl -- Plugin to make clickable e-mail addresses with perl Template Toolkit

2010-01-03 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libtemplate-plugin-clickable-email-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Nik Clayton * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Plugin-Clickable-Email/ * License : BSD

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Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2010-01-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On måndagen den 7 december 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >> > But how do you fix a package to do what its supposed to do, >> > when it isn't installed anymore? >> >> You don't need

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2010-01-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, Jan 03 2010, Magnus Holmgren wrote: > On måndagen den 7 december 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: >> > But how do you fix a package to do what its supposed to do, >> > when it isn't installed anymore? >> >> You don't need

Re: Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 08:01:10PM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > I'm sorry to bring this topic up again, but what is the status of Python > 2.6 and Squeeze? I wrote a mail to doko on 2009-12-13 asking him what > his plans are and if he needs help but didn't receive an answer yet. Has > anyone mor

Re: Should ucf be of priority required?

2010-01-03 Thread Magnus Holmgren
On måndagen den 7 december 2009, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 01:17:30PM +0100, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: > > But how do you fix a package to do what its supposed to do, > > when it isn't installed anymore? > > You don't need to. When the package is purged, and ucf doesn't exis

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > secure > > then KVM (or Xen) with QEMU. > > I haven't heard this claim before, do you have any referen

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Gabor Gombas" wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get > the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and > obviously > > the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get

Re: Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Luk Claes
Bastian Venthur wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm sorry to bring this topic up again, but what is the status of Python > 2.6 and Squeeze? I wrote a mail to doko on 2009-12-13 asking him what > his plans are and if he needs help but didn't receive an answer yet. Has > anyone more information? python 2.6 wi

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread William Pitcock
- "Marc Haber" wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake > because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who ha

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 07:33:07PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the > > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously > > the pv_ops dom0

Python 2.6

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Venthur
Hi all, I'm sorry to bring this topic up again, but what is the status of Python 2.6 and Squeeze? I wrote a mail to doko on 2009-12-13 asking him what his plans are and if he needs help but didn't receive an answer yet. Has anyone more information? Cheers and happy new year, Bastian -- Basti

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Gabor Gombas
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 06:31:20PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > So the change has happened, lthough it took painfully long to get the > upstream Linux pv_ops framework in shape and all that.. and obviously > the pv_ops dom0 patches still need to get merged upstream. That was opposed quite stro

Bug#563536: ITP: libtemplate-plugin-number-format-perl -- Number formatting plugin for perl Template Toolkit

2010-01-03 Thread USB
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Ernesto Hernández-Novich (USB)" * Package name: libtemplate-plugin-number-format-perl Version : 1.02 Upstream Author : Darren Chamberlain * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Template-Plugin-Number-Format/ * License : G

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:23:28AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, > > The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available > yet, upstream is again f

Bug#563528: ITP: enna -- a powerful MediaCenter application based on EFL

2010-01-03 Thread Davide Cavalca
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, pkg-e-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org --- Please fill out the fields below. --- Package name: enna Version: 0.4.0 Upstream Author: The Enna Project URL: http://enna.geexbox.org License: LGPL

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May > wrote: > >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM > >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. > > Xen is unsupportable due

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brian May, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +1100, a écrit : > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:47:54PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Brian May wrote: > > > > > 1) I believe Xen, with paravirtualization (that is without QEMU) is more > > > secure > > > then KVM (or Xen) with Q

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 03, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > You can call bullshit whatever how often you want. That does not change > that many people have had those problems and thus have ipv6 backlisted > (or not even compiled in if they have their own kernels built) and > programs not working with that are broken.

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Brian May writes: > http://blog.orebokech.com/2007/05/xen-security-or-lack-thereof.html links to > http://taviso.decsystem.org/virtsec.pdf. > I don't know for certain this applies to KVM, however I would assume so. Only to a certain extent. Nowadays Linux guests in KVM use virtio for disk/netwo

Re: Increasing developer productivity through tools

2010-01-03 Thread George Danchev
Florian Weimer writes: > Have you got any suggestions for increasing productivity with proper > IDE support for medium-sized C and C++ code bases? > > I've got a hunch that proper browsing support (searching for > definitions/references, displaying static call trees) might help me to > navigate un

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:55:27PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, but they > > will not be supported to the degree that ordinary kernel packages are. > I can't see any Xen ke

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:21:55AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I believe we will have Xen hypervisor and Linux dom0 packages, The hypervisor works well, but the Linux Dom0 packages are not available yet, upstream is again fading behind. Bastian -- What kind of love is that? Not to be loved;

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:55:27 +1100, Brian May wrote: >Like I said previously, I think dropping Xen support is a mistake because KVM >requires QEMU and QEMU seems to have a reputation of being insecure. Xen is unsupportable due to clueless upstream, who has been in a constant FAIL state regarding s

Re: defaulting to net.ipv6.bindv6only=1 for squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Marco d'Itri [091230 10:37]: > On Dec 30, "Bernhard R. Link" wrote: > > > > > I routinely blacklist the ipv6 module. There are far too many > > > > programs breaking or doing stuff I do not want if it is loaded. > I call bullshit on this. You can call bullshit whatever how often you want. That

Re: Xen support on Squeeze

2010-01-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote: > It does require virtualisation extensions, but most x86 processors sold in > the last few years have them. My SE Linux Play Machine is currently running on a P3-800 system with 256M of RAM. I would like to continue running on that hardware until someon