Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Jean-Yves Avenard: > We have attempted for many years to get our changes merged in FFmpeg > but gave up. > It might be a good idea to restart this effort. > To end this message: I fail to see how debian's decision on which > version of FFmpeg or LibAV would have any impact on MythTV, we use

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread envite
Just my opinion, as requested below. Sorry for top-posting. I have just installed a distro on my wife's new laptop. It was Mint due to Cinnamon. My parents had an old Ubuntu with KDE 3 (he) and Gnome 2 (she). Now they have a new Ubuntu with a "their kind of Gnome" and they do noy like it. I use

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven., 2014-08-08 at 18:38 -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > With all due respect to XFCE, I'd hate the interpretation to be along > the lines of, "Oh, Debian state of the art desktop environment feels > something like Windows, circa 2000." But, XFCE's lightweight. It's > meant > to lack such fancy f

Re: Why are the gcc-*-base packages priority:required?

2014-08-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-09 04:27 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Potentially stupid question --- why are the gcc-4.[789]-base packages > have the priority required? And what are they used for? Providing the mandatory files under /usr/share/doc, all packages built from the gcc-4.[789] source ship a symlink unde

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Bálint Réczey
Hi, 2014-08-08 20:06 GMT+02:00 Andreas Cadhalpun : > Hi Reinhard, > > > On 08.08.2014 14:29, Reinhard Tartler wrote: >> >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:13 AM, Matthias Urlichs >> wrote: >> I intended to come up with a more timely full response, but I just >> didn't get to it so far. > > > Thanks for

Re: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Charles Plessy
user debian-le...@lists.debian.org usertags 729203 one-copyright-review thanks Le Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 01:53:15AM +0200, Andreas Cadhalpun a écrit : > > Now, could anyone review the debian/copyright file of ffmpeg? > The sources are available in this repository: > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/

Re: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Johannes Schaffrath
On 08/08/2014 11:14 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: On jeu., 2014-08-07 at 23:57 +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: Hi Debian, About the decision itself, as Debian Xfce main maintainer, I honestly don't really care. I don't think the default desktop matters that much on Debian (while I guess it means a l

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Axel Wagner
Hi, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz writes: > It is, as it's the amazing job which Jordi did on bringing good > arguments in favor of GNOME as a default DE (even I'm not really > supporting it). His personal opinion about whether or not GNOME or XFCE are technically the best choices -- surely. If it is bas

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Hi envite, Thanks for your input. Quoting envite (2014-08-09 10:43:25) > XFCE (does not mount my USB disks) Did you perhaps suppress recommends? I have experienced this same issue when (for Debian-Parl deployment at the European Parliament) I tried trim the system by avoiding gvfs. In my expe

Re: Bug#729203: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Charles, On 09.08.2014 11:45, Charles Plessy wrote: I searched for license information missing from your debian/copyright and could find only one case, libavutil/x86/x86inc.asm, which is under the ISC license. The debian/copyright file of your package looks comprehensive to me. Many thanks

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bálint Réczey (2014-08-09 11:38:54) > XBMC works with Libav for most use-cases while it fails in the rest, > notably it can not use VDPAU acceleration which is being > (understandably) complained about very often (#742896). Another issue > is Libav crashing on bad input which makes XBMC/

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 août 2014 13:30 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard  : >> XFCE (does not mount my USB disks) > > Did you perhaps suppress recommends? > > I have experienced this same issue when (for Debian-Parl deployment at > the European Parliament) I tried trim the system by avoiding gvfs. > > In my experience USB

Re: Bug#729203: Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 7:34 AM, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > It's probably not necessary to make a new upload to the NEW queue for this > change. In the repository is a new upstream version anyway and it will be > uploaded, once the current version gets accepted. Based on the license review, you sho

Bug#757566: ITP: air-quality-sensor -- user space driver for AppliedSensor's Indoor Air Monitor

2014-08-09 Thread Benedikt Wildenhain
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Benedikt Wildenhain * Package name: air-quality-sensor Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jan-Benedict Glaw * URL : https://github.com/bwildenhain/air-quality-sensor/ * License : GPL3 Programming Lang: C Description

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Bálint Réczey
2014-08-09 13:41 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard : > Quoting Bálint Réczey (2014-08-09 11:38:54) >> XBMC works with Libav for most use-cases while it fails in the rest, >> notably it can not use VDPAU acceleration which is being >> (understandably) complained about very often (#742896). Another issue >>

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-08-09 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 09/25/2013 05:09 AM, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu wrote: > I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend > to continue this for the lifetime of the jessie release: > > For sh4, I > - test packages on this architecture > - triage arch-specific bugs > - fix arch-related bugs > -

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 3. libjpeg8 adds new features to the JPEG image format. These have > > however been rejected from the ISO standard, and their > > contributions to image quality and compression appear to be widely > > disputed. > > This is not really rel

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Vincent Bernat (2014-08-09 13:43:42) > ❦ 9 août 2014 13:30 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard  : > >>> XFCE (does not mount my USB disks) >> >> Did you perhaps suppress recommends? >> >> I have experienced this same issue when (for Debian-Parl deployment >> at the European Parliament) I tried trim t

Re: [CTTE #717076] Default libjpeg implementation in Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > This is not really relevant. What is relevant, however, is that nobody is > > disputing that libjpeg8 produce higher quality images than libjpeg62 when > > decompressing standard JPEG images. > > If this is true, it is a concern: at least

(Possible) bug in fglrx dependencies in Sid(Unstable)

2014-08-09 Thread Charlie Brown
Hi, I'm using Sid(Unstable). I tried to install fglrx-driver, and failed. It seems that fglrx-driver requires xorg-video-abi-15 or below, but xserver-xorg-core(1.16.0) in Sid doesn't provide any of them. A search in aptitude shows that it provides xorg-video-abi-18. So I try to install xserver from

Re: (Possible) bug in fglrx dependencies in Sid(Unstable)

2014-08-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charlie Brown (2014-08-09): > Hi, > I'm using Sid(Unstable). I tried to install fglrx-driver, and failed. > It seems that fglrx-driver requires xorg-video-abi-15 or below, but > xserver-xorg-core(1.16.0) in Sid doesn't provide any of them. A search > in aptitude shows that it provides xorg-video-a

Re: Multiarch capabilities for mingw crossbuilds too?

2014-08-09 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 16:41:22 +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Joerg Desch [2014-08-08 05:38 +]: > > Today I've read about Debians Multiarch capabilities for the first time. > > Is it possible to use this technique to build deb packages of libraries > > for the mingw crosscompile toolchain too? > >

Bug#756966: Stripped black and white background on activites page in Gnome after coming out of suspend.

2014-08-09 Thread Tomasz Nitecki
On 08/08/14 04:33, Jk Pieka wrote: > Before I do a reinstall. I will try the other catalyst driver that > AMD offers. They also offer a 14.6 beta. I will give it a go this > weekend and report back. Unless you did some horrible things to your system, reinstalling might not help. You can try the be

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
> Most forks cause additional work which, in the long term, is better spent > elsewhere. The ffmpeg/libav split is ample proof of that; in an ideal > world, you wouldn't need the mythtv fork either. > > Debian's position is that we _really_ want to avoid having multiple copies > of essentially the

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Andreas Cadhalpun
Hi Kieran, On 09.08.2014 19:26, Kieran Kunhya wrote: The reality is that in the current state of affairs static linking is the *only* way you are guaranteed to have the features you expect and avoid ABI mismatches. It's very complicated when your users complain about bugs in an underlying librar

Re: Reverting to GNOME for jessie's default desktop

2014-08-09 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 9 août 2014 15:13 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard  : >>> Did you perhaps suppress recommends? >>> >>> I have experienced this same issue when (for Debian-Parl deployment >>> at the European Parliament) I tried trim the system by avoiding gvfs. >>> >>> In my experience USB sticks auto-mount properly w

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Kieran Kunhya
On 9 August 2014 19:25, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: > I can understand that statically linking is easier from an upstream point of > view, but it has important disadvantages for a distribution such as Debian > and thus should be avoided if possible. > It is also the responsibility of a distribution t

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Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Bálint Réczey (2014-08-09 14:39:09) > 2014-08-09 13:41 GMT+02:00 Jonas Smedegaard : >> Quoting Bálint Réczey (2014-08-09 11:38:54) >>> Upstream makes sure all their use-cases work well with FFmpeg and >>> not interested in Libav-related issues. >> >> According to XBMC, they only make sure

RFH: testing util-linux/experimental

2014-08-09 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Hello! I'd like to ask for help with testing the new util-linux package currently available in experimental. Note: If you're on a non-linux platform, please contact me *before* proceeding for special instructions! The rest of this mail is dedicated to those running Linux. The new package has gon

Re: Bug#757555: pam: CVE-2014-2583 pam_timestamp directory traversal issues

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 06:19:00AM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > package: src:pam > severity: important > version: 1.1.3-7 > tags: security > Multiple directory traversal issues have been fixed in pam_timestap: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2583 Which according to elsew

Re: Why are the gcc-*-base packages priority:required?

2014-08-09 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 11:23:24AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-08-09 04:27 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > Potentially stupid question --- why are the gcc-4.[789]-base packages > > have the priority required? And what are they used for? > > Providing the mandatory files under /usr/sha

Re: RFH: testing util-linux/experimental

2014-08-09 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > One of the notes there includes mentioning that losetup has completely > dropped support for encryption. This also means that the Debian-specific > patch to extend this functionality has been dropped[HASHPATCH]. This > mean that the moun

Re: Why are the gcc-*-base packages priority:required?

2014-08-09 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 10:05:24PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2014 at 11:23:24AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-08-09 04:27 +0200, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > Potentially stupid question --- why are the gcc-4.[789]-base packages > > > have the priority required? And what

Re: [FFmpeg-devel] Reintroducing FFmpeg to Debian

2014-08-09 Thread Jean-Yves Avenard
On 9 August 2014 17:03, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Most forks cause additional work which, in the long term, is better spent > elsewhere. The ffmpeg/libav split is ample proof of that; in an ideal > world, you wouldn't need the mythtv fork either. > > Debian's position is that we _really_ want to