Re: What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 27, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > Ok, so you are for removing audio group from user default groups? Eventually, yes. > Would these be able to be tagged with "seat" as you mention? Actually the correct tag is uaccess, and /lib/udev/rules.d/70-uaccess.rules will already do it for you for all ID_FF

Re: What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014, at 11:36 PM, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Oct 26, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > > > I did find some explanations on the usage of it on this page, under > > 'Should users be in the "audio" group?' > > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PerfectSetup/,

Re: Removing conffiles AND directories in /etc

2014-10-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Jakub Wilk wrote: > * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , 2014-10-26, 10:57: > >"rmdir >/etc/foo/bar/ >/dev/null 2>&1 || true" is always a safe > >operation... > > Instead of ignoring (and hiding) all errors, it's better use > --ignore-fail-on-non-empty. That's a GNU coreutils-ism

Re: What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Kaj Ailomaa wrote: > I did find some explanations on the usage of it on this page, under > 'Should users be in the "audio" group?' > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/PerfectSetup/, > and from what I can determine, Debian would then fall under categ

What is the policy on audio group? and, proposal of a new group for the jack audio server

2014-10-26 Thread Kaj Ailomaa
Hi. I'm the project leader for Ubuntu Studio and a prospective Debian developer. My work tends to focus mostly on multimedia production related topics, and specifically audio production. My main objective right now is just to try making audio production easier for regular users, and this is still

Re: GPL-3 & openssl: provide a -nossl variant for a library

2014-10-26 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:56:39 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: [...] > Bradley Kuhn says that for GPLv2-only works Debian should not consider > OpenSSL to be a system library but for works where the GPLv3 can > apply, SSL/TLS is likely a "Standard Interface" and thus subject to > the "System Library" excepti

Re: Removing conffiles AND directories in /etc

2014-10-26 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , 2014-10-26, 10:57: "rmdir >/etc/foo/bar/ >/dev/null 2>&1 || true" is always a safe operation... Instead of ignoring (and hiding) all errors, it's better use --ignore-fail-on-non-empty. -- Jakub Wilk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > "Do you want to enable an external repository which will provide you with > the latest version of Wt? That behaviour is discouraged in Debian. We don't mind if you offer the PPAs, but the official packages should *NEVER* enable PPAs or offer to do

Re: Removing conffiles AND directories in /etc

2014-10-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Santiago Vila wrote: > > So, dpkg-maintscripthelper seems to do "Removing obsolete conffile" > > after dpkg tries to delete old directories, so dpkg fails. > > > > I'd be surprised if I were the first to encounter this problem: what is > > the appropriate and clean way to get

Re: Removing conffiles AND directories in /etc

2014-10-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:42:01PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > I have a bug (#764235) in which after I remove all conffiles in > /etc/debtags with dpkg-maintscripthelper, the /etc/debtags directory > itself is left around. > > This is what happens: > > # dpkg -i debtags_1.12.2_amd64

Bug#766859: RFH: openmpi -- high performance message passing library -- header files

2014-10-26 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hello, I am no longer using OpenMPI and the other co maintainer is no really active. It would be nice to have someone who cares about OpenMPI helping in its maintenance. It is not an hard package to maintain and it is quite interesting. So, I request assistance wit

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Carsten Schoenert
Hello Pau Garcia, Am 26.10.2014 um 11:00 schrieb Pau Garcia i Quiles: > Hello, > > I am the maintainer of witty, a C++ library for web development. > > In addition to the latest version of Debian, I provide backports of the > package for all the supported versions of Ubuntu in a PPA, and for > D

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Thomas Koch
On Sunday, October 26, 2014 11:00:14 AM Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > I am the maintainer of witty, a C++ library for web development. > > In addition to the latest version of Debian, I provide backports of the > package for all the supported versions of Ubuntu in a PPA, and for Debian

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Neil Williams
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 11:00:14 +0100 Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > I am the maintainer of witty, a C++ library for web development. > > In addition to the latest version of Debian, I provide backports of > the package for all the supported versions of Ubuntu in a PPA, and > for Debian o

Re: Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > "Do you want to enable an external repository which will provide you with > the latest version of Wt? How are you going to provide, say, S/390 binaries? ☺ What about distribution integration and bugtracking? > Is this acceptable? Has anyone ever

Enable external repository on package installation

2014-10-26 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am the maintainer of witty, a C++ library for web development. In addition to the latest version of Debian, I provide backports of the package for all the supported versions of Ubuntu in a PPA, and for Debian oldstable in an OBS repository. I have been doing this for years. So far, peop

Re: peace of mind

2014-10-26 Thread David Weinehall
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 03:25:47AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:09:57PM +0100, Robert Lemmen wrote: > > not as much as would be ideal, but I have been running it on one > > machine, adapted a few things that I run for starting, and trieid the > > monitoring/restart. bu