Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > I also wonder why unity is not being packaged in Debian.. Based on the logs for #609278 it appears there is a lot of interest and some people working on packaging it but it sounds like it is hard to build and requires patches in external compone

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Joey Hess wrote: > I do wish that some of the .. energy .. seen in these threads could be > used for something more interesting. For example, find a way to detect > touch screen systems, on which xfce is *not* pleasant, and don't install > a desktop task there, but

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Stewart Smith
Clint Byrum writes: > I am asking you, the Debian developers, to step up and help. I am > basically unable to contribute more than an hour a month now. There is a > new round of secret CVE bugs to fix, and some old bugs that need to be > handled. I think my October hour is about to be available, s

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > * Gnome is said to work fine even on platforms that don't have > > systemd installed. > My understanding from what I've read is that it "works fine" except in > that the features which the ConsoleKit-or-logind dependency provides > aren't available. That's derived from indirect statements fro

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 10/27/2013 06:41 PM, Brian May wrote: So my current understanding: * Gnome use to depend on ConsoleKit. * ConsoleKit is no longer maintained, and no one is interested in maintaining it. * As a result, Gnome switched to using the implementation from systemd instead, as it has needed feature

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Brian May
So my current understanding: * Gnome use to depend on ConsoleKit. * ConsoleKit is no longer maintained, and no one is interested in maintaining it. * As a result, Gnome switched to using the implementation from systemd instead, as it has needed features and is actively being maintained. * Some

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Brian May
On 28 October 2013 07:52, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > - /lib/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules - udev rules that will be active on > >any system with /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd present (because of logind, > this > >directory is not a good proxy for whether pid1 == systemd). > > That's a bug that

Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME

2013-10-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > Formally, it only requires that the dbus services be available, which is > given by installing the systemd package, not by running it as init. That's actually due to a missing feature in the dbus daemon: it should either have a way to key off init/file system features (so I c

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Steve Langasek > In the short term, this could be a committment from the systemd > maintainers to hold the package at version 204 until the dust settles > around cgroup manager interfaces[1]. With some time limit (3 months? 6 months?) I think I'd be ok with this. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 02:23:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks, I hadn't seen that team mentioned before anywhere. It looks > like the right place for this work to happen. Unfortunately it seems > rather dormant, as the packages they do have in place date back to > Ubuntu 12.04 (i.e., b

Re: AST ksh alpha: compilation failure related to multiarch

2013-10-27 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Giovanni, On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 07:36:15PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > Hi, I am trying to build the alpha release of AST ksh on debian testing > but the compilation fails because it cannot find header files under > /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys. > Actually, if I create the symlink

Re: Proposal: let’s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 05:37:50PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I don't mean to be rude but please read up on systemd and see the pros > of cons such as on LWN.net comments or any distro mailing list as many > are tired of systemd discussion and this wide ranging and much of the > stolen/borrowed

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 02:12:11AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > Indeed. And given the train wreck of contemporary Gnome, I fully welcome the > discussion on alternative default desktops. Some people are keen to rule out > the stakeholder issues, but a fact on the so-called agenda remains. I sugg

AST ksh alpha: compilation failure related to multiarch

2013-10-27 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
Hi, I am trying to build the alpha release of AST ksh on debian testing but the compilation fails because it cannot find header files under /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys. Actually, if I create the symlink /usr/include/sys -> /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys the compilation succeeds. I have t

Re: Two new DNS virtual packages (authoritative-name-server & recursive-name-server)

2013-10-27 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 10/24/2013 12:30 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013, at 20:16, Octavio Alvarez wrote: >> On 22/10/13 09:18, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: >>> I would suggest: caching-name-server >> >> *-dns-server would be better, as it is specific enough to avoid name >> collision in the future. >

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 27.10.2013 16:06, schrieb Daniel Schepler: > Johannes Schauer wrote: >> Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of >> Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will > find >> many surprising (at least to me) examples in the section of

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Jonathan Aquilina
i do have a testing vps i can setup for you an account on to do tetsting etc of mysql and maria db if it helps. I will also want to use it for my own testing purposes along side. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: > Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-10-25 23:36:

Re: Proposal: switch default desktop to xfce

2013-10-27 Thread Svante Signell
On Sat, 2013-10-26 at 22:14 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Svante Signell wrote: > > > This really pinpoints the whole problem: What happened to the Unix > > philosophy, with freedom of choice? > We killed it for good in 2008: > http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/

Bug#728016: ITP: node-send -- Static file server with ranges and negotiation support for Node.js

2013-10-27 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-send Version : 0.1.4 Upstream Author : TJ Holowaychuk * URL : https://github.com/visionmedia/send * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Static file server

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-10-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 08:57:54PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > I'd find it very nice if we had, by default, DNSSEC resolving in Debian, > > at least in the "default" configuration (whatever that means). By this, > I agree with the general principle, but I do n

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Daniel, Quoting Daniel Schepler (2013-10-27 16:06:43) > Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of > > Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will > find > > many surprising (at least to me) examples in

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Daniel Schepler
Johannes Schauer wrote: > Indeed, none of the Type 1 Self-Cycles are needed to bootstrap the core of > Debian. Unfortunately though, most of the Type 2 Self-Cycles are. You will find > many surprising (at least to me) examples in the section of "Type 2 > Self-Cycles" under the above link. On the

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-10-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/27/2013 01:52 AM, Ondřej Surý wrote: > I still think that the Debian should be a technology leader. > Conservative, but technology leader. And DNSSEC adoption would help the > case. > > Also the DSA has already enabled DANE (DNSSEC validated TLS certs) on > Debian's MTAs, the postfix 2.11 wi

Re: Jessie release goal: DNSSEC as default recursive resolver

2013-10-27 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013, at 18:58, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > I believe the reliability (DOS) issues that DNSSEC imposes coupled with > > Please, not this again. If you say DNSSEC DOS issue, you must state all > the other issues that DNS has. > Not really, the security issues are already catered f

Re: on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > Surely every maintainer of source packages involved in a Type 1 Self-Cycle > knows about this issue. Because Type 2 Self-Cycles are non-obvious we could in > the future (once build profiles are available) embed this information in the > pt

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2013-10-27, Thomas Goirand wrote: > If you don't mind that I ask: are you a GNOME developer? Olav is a gnome developer, yes. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Thomas Goirand (2013-10-27): > If you don't mind that I ask: are you a GNOME developer? That comes to mind: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Olav+Vitters+Gnome https://lists.debian.org/20131024192452.ga29...@bkor.dhs.org KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#727833: ITP: node-bytes -- Byte string parser and formatter - Node.js module

2013-10-27 Thread Jérémy Lal
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Jérémy Lal" * Package name: node-bytes Version : 0.2.1 Upstream Author : TJ Holowaychuk * URL : https://github.com/visionmedia/bytes.js * License : Expat Programming Lang: JavaScript Description : Byte string pa

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL.. no.. _I_ need your help!

2013-10-27 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Jonathan Aquilina's message of 2013-10-25 23:36:22 -0700: > I would like to help in some capacity. Would working in a chrooted > environment or would one need a fully fledged os? > These days I have no standing machines of Debian. I do spin up cloud instances often that I use to do

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Paul Tagliamonte
Can this be taken off-list? I don't care either way, I'd still take his points even if he wasn't. On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/26/2013 09:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > >>> I'm fed up with repeat

Re: Please assume good faith (was Re: systemd effectively mandatory now due to GNOME)

2013-10-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/26/2013 09:17 PM, Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 12:02:00AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: >>> I'm fed up with repeated attempts to force components on the rest of the >>> system, but that's mostly a fault of Gnome's upstream >> >> There seems to be a trend emanating from package

Re: let's split the systemd binary package

2013-10-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon McVittie: > On 26/10/13 21:23, Florian Weimer wrote: >>> "Session tracking" includes suspending/hibernating, because logind has >>> a mechanism to let apps delay suspend, which is necessary for things >>> like closing the inherent race condition in "lock the screensaver when >>> we suspend

Re: Proposal: s have a GR about the init system

2013-10-27 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Oct 26, 2013 7:15 AM, "Uoti Urpala" wrote: > I am no longer willing to assume that Steve Langasek would act in good > faith in evaluating init systems; he has posted false claims about > systemd too many times for me to believe they would all be honest > mistakes, and has posted what ha

on bootstrapping ports (was: Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info))

2013-10-27 Thread Johannes Schauer
Hi Peter, Quoting peter green (2013-10-27 01:11:24) > Johannes Schauer wrote: > > Until these two issues are fixed we will not be able to get an algorithmic > > answer to the question of what constitutes the minimum required set of > > packages. > > > There is also the complication of what I wi