Re: switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
m...@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) writes: > Is this the right time to do it? I'm not sure that I see the point, and I say that as someone who replaces Exim with Postfix on all of my boxes. There's nothing particularly wrong with Exim; it works just fine. It's been the default in Debian for years, an

switching from exim to postfix

2012-04-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
Is this the right time to do it? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#670786: ITP: despotify -- Open source client for Spotify

2012-04-28 Thread Toby Smithe
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Toby Smithe * Package name: despotify Version : 1.0r520 Upstream Author : #HACK.SE * URL : http://despotify.se/ * License : 2-clause BSD Programming Lang: C Description : Open source client for Spotify Despotify

Bug#670785: ITP: libxml-writer-string-perl -- Capture output from XML::Writer

2012-04-28 Thread 韓達耐
Package: wnpp Owner: Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libxml-writer-string-perl Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Simon Oliver * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Writer-S

Re: MIA check: Jan Christoph Nordholz

2012-04-28 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-04-28, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > I'm looking for information regarding last known activity of=20 > >Jan Christoph Nordholz http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=641867#20 is what he wrote on another package some months ago. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-

Re: MIA check: Jan Christoph Nordholz

2012-04-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Dmitry Smirnov] > Petter, you sponsored last maintainer's upload back in 2009 - do you > happen to hear from Jan lately? Nope. Been busy elsewhere. :) -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Chris Knadle
On Saturday, April 28, 2012 13:23:21, Russ Allbery wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard writes: > > I also am biased in one direction but shall not say which as I see no > > benefit at this point in rehashing the discussion: Both packaging > > "camps" have clearly demonstrated a lack of interest in letting t

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-04-28 at 01:50pm, Joey Hess wrote: > Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > As I understand the current status, it has already on this list been > > resolved that *both* packages should back off from using the > > clashing name "node". > > > > I also am biased in one direction but shall not say which

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Joey Hess
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > As I understand the current status, it has already on this list been > resolved that *both* packages should back off from using the clashing > name "node". > > I also am biased in one direction but shall not say which as I see no > benefit at this point in rehashing th

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-28 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 04/28/2012 08:29 AM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > We are in 2012 and if a non-essential daemon blocks the boot (no working > network), we have no way to get a getty to be run. > I agree with the rest of your post, but here, you are are picturing a very badly written init script that doesn't have a

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Carsten Hey
* Carl Fürstenberg [2012-04-28 03:31 +0200] > The the hamradio package "node" shipping a binary called "node", and > as it's so old, the developers argue that the package must ship > a binary called "node" or breakage will occur. Upstream's INSTALL file contains: | Node is intended to be called fr

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonas Smedegaard writes: > I also am biased in one direction but shall not say which as I see no > benefit at this point in rehashing the discussion: Both packaging > "camps" have clearly demonstrated a lack of interest in letting the > other use the name "node", which means we must both step

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Russ Allbery
"brian m. carlson" writes: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >> From a purely pragmatic POV, how many people are using both packages? >> If the answer is zero, and this seems relatively likely, can't we just >> add a Conflicts/Breaks and be done with it. Not a great

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > >From a purely pragmatic POV, how many people are using both packages? > If the answer is zero, and this seems relatively likely, can't we > just add a Conflicts/Breaks and be done with it. Not a great solution, > but it doesn't seem l

Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > NULL pointer derreference. > Install the -dbg packages for all libraries used by biber, compile biber > with full debug information, and try running texl (the binary which is > segfaulting) under gdb (maybe using xgdb or ddd to make it easier). You > shoul

Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
* Marcus Frings wrote: > I'm running Debian unstable (32 bit) on various machines with local > installations of TeXLive 2011 (both Debian and TeXLive are updated > daily). Since a few days biber (which is part of TeXLive and replaces > the old bibtex) crashes on all machines with a segmentation f

Re: biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Marcus Frings wrote: > Apr 28 12:25:52 black-ice kernel: [1216918.909369] > /usr/local/texl[14001]: segfault at 0 ip b7591a11 sp bfd15c8c error 4 in > libc-2.13.so[b7515000+156000] NULL pointer derreference. > I have uploaded the output of "strace biber --version" to > http:/

Re: [Pkg-javascript-devel] Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-04-28 at 03:31am, Carl Fürstenberg wrote: > There has been an log struggle between the nodejs package and the node > package, which is still unresolved (bug #611698 for example) And I > wonder now what the future should look like. > > To summarize the problem: > * the nodejs upstream binar

biber (from TeXLive 2011) crashes on Debian testing/unstable

2012-04-28 Thread Marcus Frings
Hello everyone, before asking here I have tried the German user mailing list of Debian and comp.text.tex, too, but nobody could help me there, yet. So please forgive me for sending my concern directly to the DD list. I'm running Debian unstable (32 bit) on various machines with local installation

Re: libbitcoin

2012-04-28 Thread Amir Taaki
> We have a process for requesting software to be packaged for Debian > (RFPs), please read the following: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ Thanks. Here it is: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=670701 - Submit this report on wnpp (e to edit) [Y|n|a|c|e|i|l|m|p

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:14:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Carl Fürstenberg writes: > > > As I'm not a hamradio user, I'm off course biased towards letting nodejs > > having the "node" binary and let it pass to testing. But we must find a > > solution to this, as nodejs is getting more and m

Re: Node.js and it's future in debian

2012-04-28 Thread Adrian Knoth
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 07:14:04PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [nodejs's vs. hamradio's /usr/bin/node] > In an ideal world, *neither* application would be using "node", since it's > a very generic name You could rename the binary in both packages and then ask the user via debconf and/or alternativ

Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian

2012-04-28 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Friday 27 April 2012 02:10 AM, Svante Signell wrote: >> Say you want to mount a network disk during boot. This depend on >> the >>> network being configured. This in turn might depend on a DHCP >>> reply from a DHCP server, and to send the DHCP