Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Kel Modderman
> Whereas there's no indication that RHEL is switching away from upstart. I'm > not sure why Debian should regard OpenSUSE as an opinion leader when picking > its core technologies. When it comes to the boot system we have collaborated quite a lot with Werner Fink who is SuSE/OpenSuSE affiliated

multiarch conversion for packages with lib32* packages

2012-03-23 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
Please cc me on replies as I am not presently subscribed to debian-devel. I would like to do multiarch conversion for the icu packages. I understand the concept and the implementation, and I have looked at http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Implementation. One issue not covered is what to do if y

Re: adding information to wnpp

2012-03-23 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Dom 18 Mar 2012 11:55:51 Henri Le Foll escribió: > Hello OK, maybe I've hitted enter too fast. > I don't know a to maintain a package, and I would be interested to > maintain a package I use every day. OK, my early reply was mostly to ↑ this. > First I need to learn how to maintain an easy

Re: adding information to wnpp

2012-03-23 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Dom 18 Mar 2012 11:55:51 Henri Le Foll escribió: > Hello Hi Henri! Please try the debian-mentors list. Kinds regards, Lisandro. -- Una vez que hemos eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por improbable que parezca, es la verdad. Sherlock Holmes Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://p

Re: test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread jidanni
It doesn't matter who is to blame. A simple /etc/init.d/... start test could catch such grave bugs before they hit the user. Who is to blame could be figured out internally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 21:45:03, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I have an idea, > all /etc/init.d/ script packages should test to see they actually can be > started and stopped before their debs get shipped. > Hmmm, and all bin/ programs should given a test run too... to at least > see they can pr

Re: test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread James McCoy
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 09:45:03AM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: > I have an idea, > all /etc/init.d/ script packages should test to see they actually can be > started and stopped before their debs get shipped. As Arno already stated[0], this isn't a problem with Apache. One of the libraries

test "/etc/init.d/MyPackage start" before shipping, please

2012-03-23 Thread jidanni
I have an idea, all /etc/init.d/ script packages should test to see they actually can be started and stopped before their debs get shipped. Hmmm, and all bin/ programs should given a test run too... to at least see they can print --version without segfaulting etc. Hmmm, all even more important than

Re: NM without X (general: users vs developers)

2012-03-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:29 +, Jon Dowland wrote: >> This is completely off-topic for -devel. Please take it to debian-user >> if you want to continue. > > No it is not, this is as important as the systemd/upstart/sysvint\ > issue, now b

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:23:11, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > > On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > > > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in t

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > > > case, daemons need to be patched to work correct

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 19:06:48, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 23:59, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Lennart Pottering during his talk said that daemons needed to be patched > > to fully work with systemd, but didn't say specifically what they needed > > to be patched for. If he had qualified i

Bug#665415: ITP: python3-dateutil -- powerful extensions to the standard datetime module in Python 3

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Kluyver
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Kluyver X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: python3-dateutil Version : 2.0 Upstream Author : Gustavo Niemeyer * URL : http://labix.org/python-dateutil * License : BSD Programming Lang: Py

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:06:09AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 23:54 +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > > > > i did this already 10 month ago [1]. i also wrote some mails to the > > maintainer, he answered, i build some test packages for debian sid, > > wrote mails again

Re: gconftool

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:32:09PM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 21:17 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > > On 2012-03-23, Svante Signell wrote: > > > The man pages are not very informative either. > > > > lol whut? > > > > You're arguing for CLI tools and then fail to read

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Biebl
On 23.03.2012 23:59, Chris Knadle wrote: > Lennart Pottering during his talk said that daemons needed to be patched to > fully work with systemd, but didn't say specifically what they needed to be > patched for. If he had qualified it, I would have. Can you provide any references? -- Why is

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 23:54 +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > > i did this already 10 month ago [1]. i also wrote some mails to the > maintainer, he answered, i build some test packages for debian sid, > wrote mails again but at the end nothing happened and the maintainer > didn't answer to my last

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:25 -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Bechtold >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > i just want to ask if it's possible to update to the latest upstart >> > version. i followe

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 18:26:37, Michael Biebl wrote: > On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > > case, daemons need to be patched to work correctly with systemd. > > This is simply not true. > > Only if you want t

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bechtold
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 19:25 -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Bechtold > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > i just want to ask if it's possible to update to the latest upstart > > version. i followed the latest discussion but i just want to have the > > latest ver

Re: NM without X (general: users vs developers)

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 22:29 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > This is completely off-topic for -devel. Please take it to debian-user > if you want to continue. No it is not, this is as important as the systemd/upstart/sysvint\ issue, now being discussed on Debian devel. The general question is: How much

gconftool

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 21:17 +, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 2012-03-23, Svante Signell wrote: > > The man pages are not very informative either. > > lol whut? > > You're arguing for CLI tools and then fail to read our all favourite > documentation source? > > $ gconftool --all-dirs / > /system

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Jon Dowland
This is completely off-topic for -devel. Please take it to debian-user if you want to continue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120323222941.GA6827@d

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Michael Biebl
On 23.03.2012 20:07, Chris Knadle wrote: > Right now the situation may be somewhat reversed, because in the general > case, > daemons need to be patched to work correctly with systemd. This is simply not true. Only if you want to use socket activation, you need to patch your daemon. But socket

Re: please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Fernando Lemos
Hi, On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Thomas Bechtold wrote: > Hi, > > i just want to ask if it's possible to update to the latest upstart > version. i followed the latest discussion but i just want to have the > latest version available in debian. i don't care about the upstart > support in debia

please update to latest upstart version (again)

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Bechtold
Hi, i just want to ask if it's possible to update to the latest upstart version. i followed the latest discussion but i just want to have the latest version available in debian. i don't care about the upstart support in debian because: - i have my own upstart packages for my own software and want

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 20:43 -0300, Fernando Lemos wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Svante Signell > wrote: > > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something > > breaks!!! Network *should* work also in console mode... Looking forward > > to the which nasty bugs in the

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2012-03-23, Svante Signell wrote: > The man pages are not very informative either. lol whut? You're arguing for CLI tools and then fail to read our all favourite documentation source? $ gconftool --all-dirs / /system /desktop /schemas /apps Go figure. From there. Also you're not helpi

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Chris Knadle
On Friday, March 23, 2012 12:05:28, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > Today, on my typical laptop, boot is not the most important task. It > > is better to have something well working, fixable (being mere shell > > scripts and that's what your

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Uoti Urpala
Steve Langasek wrote: > The current state of upstart in Debian is a reflection of the upstart > maintainers' respect for Debian and desire to not destabilize the > distribution by triggering an avalanche of package conversions that could > quickly take us past the point of no return for bit rot of

Re: Bug#665041: ITP: etl -- Synfig extended template library

2012-03-23 Thread Denis Washington
Dmitry uploaded the source package to mentors.debian.org: http://mentors.debian.net/package/etl smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Kryptografische Unterschrift

Re: Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:56:49AM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > >Please let's not forget that this is not about systemd: we have not even > >started yet the flame war to decide if we should use systemd or upstart. > Well, In find the overall reception of systemd in upstream projects > and the

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Today, on my typical laptop, boot is not the most important task. It > is better to have something well working, fixable (being mere shell > scripts and that's what your friend is also pointing). sysvinit serves > this purpose well. boo

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Roger Leigh, le Fri 23 Mar 2012 10:44:31 +, a écrit : > Debugging the core sysvinit or systemd code does > require programming expertise, but it only needs doing once. > Once it's tested and known to work well, the chance of a > user running into problems with it is very small. In the case of

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Timo Juhani Lindfors, le Fri 23 Mar 2012 14:15:00 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > the particular script that poses problem. With a deamon like systemd, > > it's rather all-or-nothing. > > This gives me the impression that systemd would be a single monolithic > binary but isn't vcon

Re: Bug#665045: ITP: synfigstudio -- vector-based 2D animation package (graphical user interface)

2012-03-23 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 22.03.2012, 12:32 +0100 schrieb Denis Washington: > synfigstudio already was in Debian, but was removed together with synfig from > the package archives (bug #612070). Dmitry Smirnov > has recently updated the etl, synfig and synfigstudio packages to the latest > upstream a

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 16:23 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Same problem seems to apply to gconf and its successor(s). > > Ah yes of course. Because gconftool(1) and gsettings(1) never worked > at all. I have tried gconftool before: gconftool Run 'gconftool --help' to see a full list of

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Saturday 17 March 2012 10:23 PM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'd like people to think twice before opt-in for systemd. I just > taked with a friend working for redhat, and he told me how much he > hates it. He told me that if *anything* goes wrong in

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 14:16 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > Regarding configuration of different tools, clicking here and there is > becoming more like the M$ world. If any kind of GUI makes you think of Microsoft, there’s not much we can do for you. > There you never know where the > co

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Salvo Tomaselli
> The answer is yes to the three questions; for controlling it’s a bit > complicated with the existing CLI tools, but it is very easy to > configure connections with ini-like configuration files and start them > without X. but wicd has front-ends for curses, cli, gnome, kde -- Salvo Tomaselli s

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Michal Čihař
Hi Dne Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:35:34 +0100 Svante Signell napsal(a): > On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 14:16 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Vi, 23 mar 12, 00:07:43, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something > > > breaks!!! Network *should* work

Re: NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:43 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 13:35 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > > Can the Network Manager be controlled/started/configured in console mode > > when X is not running? If the answer to the above questions is yes, > > maybe that setting

NM without X

2012-03-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 13:35 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > Can the Network Manager be controlled/started/configured in console mode > when X is not running? If the answer to the above questions is yes, > maybe that setting (making Network Manager work also without X) would be > the default

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 14:16 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 23 mar 12, 00:07:43, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something > > breaks!!! Network *should* work also in console mode... > > I'm not a big fan of Network Manager, but this i

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 23 mars 2012 à 00:07 +0100, Svante Signell a écrit : > Speaking about buggy software: Today the libpcre3 update broke a lot of > functions on my computer This is an interesting story, as libpcre3 being a really core part of the system now means that it should stop being maintained in s

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 23 mar 12, 00:07:43, Svante Signell wrote: > > Please, don't make things unbearably complicated in case something > breaks!!! Network *should* work also in console mode... I'm not a big fan of Network Manager, but this is unfair: if you click "Make available to all users" the connection

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Samuel Thibault writes: > the particular script that poses problem. With a deamon like systemd, > it's rather all-or-nothing. This gives me the impression that systemd would be a single monolithic binary but isn't vconsole-setup.c that you mention actually part of a small helper binary at /lib/sy

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 10:49:09AM +0100, Martin Wuertele wrote: > * Marco d'Itri [2012-03-21 09:34]: > > > On Mar 21, Svante Signell wrote: > > > > > And how do you expect non-experts be able to solve problems when they > > > pop up. Buying consultant services from the experts? > > Non-experts

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Tollef Fog Heen, le Fri 23 Mar 2012 10:27:02 +0100, a écrit : > > What init scripts use from the shell is way less complex than what > > systemd implements, and it's independant from what is needed to achieve > > the boot. You can copy over a woking systemd, fine, your system can > > boot, but you

Re: Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Please let's not forget that this is not about systemd: we have not even started yet the flame war to decide if we should use systemd or upstart. Well, In find the overall reception of systemd in upstream projects and the current state of upstart in Debian quite convincing. Even OpenSUSE who w

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 05:04:09PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/23/2012 12:14 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > [1] https://blip.tv/linuxconfau/beyond-init-systemd-4715015 > > > This is very interesting, thanks for the link. > > What I found interesting, is when he says that all distributio

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Thomas Goirand > And also with release goals. If we decide to change sysvinit by something > else (which ever it is), I guess it would be a wheezy+1 release goal > (I really hope that nobody is seriously thinking about such radical > change so close from the freeze...). I'm working on getting

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Samuel Thibault > Tollef Fog Heen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 15:47:45 +0100, a écrit : > > > Stig Sandbeck Mathisen, le Thu 22 Mar 2012 13:35:15 +0100, a écrit : > > > > Samuel Thibault writes: > > > > > > > > > Because the issue at stake might lie in systemd itself, not the unit > > > > > file. >

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/22/2012 07:10 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > This I disagree with, Debian doesn't work by people sitting down, > writing papers and then agreeing on a course of action. Debian works, > mostly, by people putting in effort and then documenting how others can > solve the same or similar problems.

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 03/23/2012 12:14 PM, Chris Knadle wrote: > [1] https://blip.tv/linuxconfau/beyond-init-systemd-4715015 > This is very interesting, thanks for the link. What I found interesting, is when he says that all distributions are switching to systemd. All but ... Ubuntu. But he pretends to have goo

Bug#665343: ITP: libnetlib-java -- collection of mission-critical software components for linear algebra system translated from Fortran to Java

2012-03-23 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: libnetlib-java Version : 0.9.3 Upstream Author : Sam Halliday * URL : http://code.google.com/p/netlib-java * License : BSD Programming Lang: Fortran, Java Description : collection

Bug#665341: ITP: libjlapack-java -- LAPACK numerical subroutines translated from Fortran to Java

2012-03-23 Thread Olivier Sallou
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Olivier Sallou * Package name: libjlapack-java Version : 0.8 Upstream Author : Keith Seymour * URL : http://icl.cs.utk.edu/f2j/ * License : BSD Programming Lang: Fortran, Java Description : LAPACK numerical subro

Re: On init in Debian

2012-03-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 22, Samuel Thibault wrote: > So you believe that systemd Please let's not forget that this is not about systemd: we have not even started yet the flame war to decide if we should use systemd or upstart. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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Re: mass bug filing of 'deluser/delgroup: command not found' errors detected by piuparts

2012-03-23 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2012-03-23 04:07, Ian Jackson wrote: > If you absolutely want a workaround an obvious one is to bodge a fake > deluser into the piuparts setup. I don't think working around bugs without properly documenting them first ist a good solution. Especially for sid where we do much more pedantic tests