Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Simon McVittie
On 26/08/14 07:01, Brian May wrote: > In gbp-pq [...] There is no history kept of > the patch-queue branch. Possibly the patch-queue branch shouldn't be > pushed to remote repositories, because rebasing is expected. You are correct in thinking that it is conventional to avoid pushing the patch-que

Re: internationalized domain name (IDN) in Debian

2014-08-26 Thread Michal Politowski
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:50:31 +0200, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > On 25.08.14 19:53:53, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-08-25 at 15:54, Dariusz Dwornikowski wrote: > > > > Am Sonntag, den 24.08.2014, 20:32 +0200 schrieb Ralf Jung: > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/IDN > > > > > > Summary

Re: First steps towards source-only uploads

2014-08-26 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014, at 14:02, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 02:35:46 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > #756975 dpkg-dev: dpkg-genchanges option to only include arch:all debs > > This is now available in dpkg 1.17.11, and as mentioned on the bug > report, you can use it in at le

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:38:05PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On 25 August 2014 14:34, Barry Warsaw wrote: > > > I'm beginning to think that what we want is for gbp and git-dpm to > > interoperate, such that any individual maintainer can use whichever tool > > they > > choose, but would still allo

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:19:48AM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 26/08/14 07:01, Brian May wrote: > > In gbp-pq [...] There is no history kept of > > the patch-queue branch. Possibly the patch-queue branch shouldn't be > > pushed to remote repositories, because rebasing is expected. > > You ar

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 02:11:16PM +, Mike Gabriel wrote: [..snip..] > >- shall we standardize the "pristine-tar" branch? > > I'd say "No" here. With packaging of the MATE desktop environment I started > maintaining only the debian/ folders in the packaging Git repositories (e.g. > [1]). So, I

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 25/08/14 14:01, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > is there for Debian a daemon user naming scheme or custom ? > > Several :-( > > The ones I've seen suggested are (assuming a package, daemon or user > whose simple name is "foo"): > > *

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Mike Gabriel
Hi Guido, On Di 26 Aug 2014 12:14:58 CEST, Guido Günther wrote: That said it'd be nice to know why it's more convenient to not have the upstream sources in git since I think one misses out on many of the advantages of git based packaging (like rebasing patches to new upstream versions). The

RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of > Debian-* > users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with > Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this. I have the same problem in one of my package. #737956 I would like to rename the system user tang

Bug#759340: RFP: cdist -- Usable Configuration Management System

2014-08-26 Thread Nico Schottelius
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: cdist Version : 3.1.6 Upstream Author : Nico Schottelius * URL or Web page : http://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/cdist/ * License : GPL-3+ Description : Usable Configuration Management System cdist is a usable co

Bug#759354: ITP: python-admesh -- Python bindings for the ADMesh, program for processing triangulated solid meshes

2014-08-26 Thread Anton Gladky
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Anton Gladky * Package name: python-admesh Version : 0.98 Upstream Author : Miro Hrončok * URL : https://github.com/admesh/python-admesh * License : GPL-2 Description : Python bindings for the ADMesh, program for p

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: > I would like to rename the system user tango -> _tango > But I do not know how to do this rename properly :(( > Fake it. UID=$(id -u tango) GID=$(id -g tango) deluser tango adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID typo? adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID -mz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:40:04PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: > > > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID > > typo? > > adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID The sysadmin may have written scripts and things that assume the existing

RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> Fake it. > UID=$(id -u tango) > GID=$(id -g tango) > deluser tango > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID I like this fake rename because it cause no troubles to the files already owned by the tango user BÙT in case of an idempotent pre/post scripts. what happend if I delete the tango users be

Help request: intel-microcode and old Intel processors

2014-08-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
I am the maintainer of the intel-microcode and iucode-tool packages, used to update the microcode[1] on Intel system processors (CPU chip). I'd like to know whether the kernel microcode update is working well on some of the older Intel 32-bit processors or not. These computers were sold between y

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2014-08-26 at 11:02:54 +, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote: > > This has the advantage of being short and downstreams not having lots of > > Debian-* > > users on their systems possibly confusing users not familiar with > > Debian. I'd be nice to standardize on this. > > I have the

RE:daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel
> # usermod -l newname oldname > (Other things can also be modified at the same time, see the man page.) thanks a lot Frederic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists

Bug#759376: ITP: python-pysocks -- socket-like interface for tunneling through SOCKS

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-pysocks Version : 1.5.0 Upstream Author : Anorov Vorona * URL : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PySocks * License : BSD-3-clauses Programming Lang: Python Description : socket-l

Bug#759379: general: Mouse resp. touchpad cursor is flickering, disapearing and jumping

2014-08-26 Thread Stefan Hans
Package: general Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? New installed debian on a dell inspiron 15 7000 series with gnome * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffe

Bug#759385: ITP: python-protorpc-standalone -- Google Protocol RPC

2014-08-26 Thread Thomas Goirand
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Thomas Goirand * Package name: python-protorpc-standalone Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : Daniel Hermes * URL : https://github.com/jeremydw/protorpc-standalone * License : Apache-2.0 Programming Lang: Python Descri

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel: > BÙT > in case of an idempotent pre/post scripts. > what happend if I delete the tango users before creating the new _tango user. > Actually, nothing prevents you from creating _tango first. > another important point in my case is that I need to do some mysql operat

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 09:28:11AM -0700, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Donations in Bitcoin > > > Crytocurrencies have been the subject of a lot of attention recently. > Debian received its first Bitcoin donation, which was handled in a ad-hoc > manner as we don't have any infrastr

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 02:08:03AM +0200, Santiago Vila a écrit : > > I don't think Debian should accept donations in Bitcoin, as such thing > could be considered as an endorsement of Bitcoin. The EFF has a very > well written rationale why accepting Bitcoins is not necessarily a > good idea, see

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread intrigeri
Hi, Santiago Vila wrote (27 Aug 2014 00:08:03 GMT) : > The EFF has a very well written rationale why accepting Bitcoins is > not necessarily a good idea, see point 3 here: > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/06/eff-and-bitcoin It seems useful to note that, since then, they've decided to accept B

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 09:40:15AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > The EFF changed its mind two years later. > > > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/eff-will-accept-bitcoins-support-digital-liberty Ok, from the above link: You can now give Bitcoins to EFF in the same way that you can gi

Bug#759398: ITP: trust-router - Dynamically configure Trust Between RADIUS Realms

2014-08-26 Thread Sam Hartman
package: wnpp severity: wishlist owner: hartm...@debian.org URL: git://git.project-moonshot.org/trust_router.git http://www.project-moonshot.org/ license: bsd-3-clause Description: The trust router establishes a DH key between two RADIUS servers to protect a RADIUS over TLS session. GSS-API au

Bug#759159: ITP: shibboleth-resolver - Library to access the Shibboleth Attribute Resolver from Third-Party Applications

2014-08-26 Thread Sam Hartman
package: wnpp severity: wishlist owner: hartm...@debian.org URL: http://www.shibboleth.org/ Source: svn https://svn.shibboleth.net/extensions/cpp-sp-resolver/trunk Description: Shibboleth library to access Attribute Resolver The Shibboleth Service provider consumes information about an authenti

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Brian May
On 26 August 2014 16:12, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Serializing_Git_Branches.pdf has a > demonstration of the differences in history given an upstream and two > feature branches with two commits each, using git-dpm and git-debcherry. > Interesting review. Howev

Re: bits from the DPL -- mid-April to mid-August 2014

2014-08-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Santiago Vila: > To me, it's sad to see that we seem to be officially endorsing Bitcoin > without any debate at all. If we accept Bitcoin, we should probably > accept competing so-called-cryptocurrencies as well. Should Debian > favour one cryptocurrency over the others? > No, but it's the mo

Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories

2014-08-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Brian May: > I don't think you should use normally be feature branches with git-dpm. > Rather you edit the commit directly (whether by rebase or --amend). > If Upstream uses git and wants you to send a pull request when you add a feature (or fix a bug), then using a feature branch is what you

Re: daemon user naming scheme

2014-08-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Matt Zagrabelny: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: > > > adduser tango --uid $UID --gid $GID > > typo? > > adduser _tango --uid $UID --gid $GID > Right. Of course. Thanks for spotting. :-/ -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-req