Re: systemd^wfoo on linux, bar on bsd,so what (Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 13, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote: actually, while it has been brought up as a theoretical/wrong argument, that we cannot switch our linux installation ship with $this init system, while the kfreebsd port uses $that init system, I'd say nobody is seriously saying this

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 10, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: Having the rescue image _this_ independent is not really desireable since one would probably have to deal with outdated or non-existing rescue tools in the independent image while the correct software in the correct version is on the

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 10, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: Additional work necessary to satisfy upstream's bizarre ideas. Why not keeping things the way they are now? They work. No need to waste developer time. Why make new releases? bo worked fine, there is no need for new features. People

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 09, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: That's a hack which is acceptable for single-user home desktops. We're talking about professional IT here. Great, if this is the strongest objection you have then looks like it can be done. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 09, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: If you don't care about the companies that use Debian and you want their sponsoring money to go elsewhere, yes, absolutely do this. Actually I care a lot, since I happen to have a role in one which manages quite a bit of Debian servers

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 09, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: Or in other words: to make essential functionality not available if /usr is broken. Again: this is not we are discussing. Essential functionality is moving to /usr anyway, no matter if /bin will become a symlink to /usr/bin. Having a

Accepted whois 5.0.25 (source i386)

2013-05-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 05:13:47 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.25 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 08, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: The emergency tools side of it I'm less clear on. It's relatively apt-get install grml-rescueboot Which is way safer than relying on / working. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 08, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: If we force a much bigger /, the chance of a broken / filesystem increases. If / is fine, one has a chance to fix the system without booting to rescue. So, a small / both decreases the probability of a boot failure and makes fixing

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 08, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: How would that be done for a 200 MB filesystem holding /, no extra /boot partition, and a multi-gigabyte /usr beyond the 2T barrier? Let's assume that at this point there are no files in /{bin,sbin,lib} which have the same name of a

Re: /bin/sh (was Re: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Thorsten Glaser t...@debian.org wrote: My stated goal here is, indeed, to be able to run at least some useful configurations of a Debian installation without *both* bash and dash installed. What is the point? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Removal of the /selinux directory

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: I think I mentioned that before: imho it would be nice to clean up /selinux on upgrades automatically *if* /selinux is not in use, ie. no selinuxfs mounted there. Agreed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Игорь Пашев pashev.i...@gmail.com wrote: What about merging / and /usr ? An ambitious plan. I strongly support the everything in /usr scheme, but let's first consolidate support for standalone /usr must be mounted by the initramfs. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: No please. We are good about making sure they each mean something important, and there's no good reason. Not really nowadays: more and more things needed at boot time are in /usr and there are no plans to fix them. We also support setups

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@debian.org wrote: everything in /usr actually means that supporting these devices is much easier. Not when you have a 500 meg internal storage that the firmware boots off of, and using a multi-gig CF card to store the mega-awesome-app you're using it

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: If we do this, I'd prefer to make /usr a symlink to / on new installs I've always thought that myself, but it seems most folks who are pro merge tend to propose going the other way. I've never understood why. I was trying to not start a new

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Aurelien Jarno aurel...@aurel32.net wrote: blocked in sid until eglibc is fixed on kfreebsd. I see a simple solution to two problems here... :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Merging / and /usr (was: jessie release goals)

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: What about merging / and /usr ? So we really want to explicitly not offer an upgade path from wheezy to jessie? This causes no major issues on upgrades, Fedora did it. The hard part is replacing with a symlink to the other one of every

Re: epoch fix?

2013-05-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 07, Matt Zagrabelny mzagr...@d.umn.edu wrote: First, is there a consensus or quorum that believes that unnecessary epochs is undesirable? Among reasonable people, I'd say yes. Epochs are like herpes: once you have one on your package it's going to be around forever. So try to avoid them

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 06, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: 1) IMHO, services/daemons (e.g. apache, ejabberd, etc.) that listen per default on the network (unless loopback only) shouldn't be started per default, after being installed. This has been discussed over and over, I think with a

Re: Bug#602034: jpeg8 vs jpeg-turbo

2013-04-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 25, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Please no. If libjpeg-turbo is the saner implementation, which reading through the messages posted so far it seems like, let's switch to it fully. Agreed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Accepted whois 5.0.24 (source i386)

2013-04-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:36:17 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Accepted inn2 2.5.3-3 (source i386)

2013-04-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:21:53 +0200 Source: inn2 Binary: inn2 inn2-lfs inn2-inews inn2-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.5.3-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m

Accepted kmod 9-3 (source i386 all)

2013-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:19:01 +0200 Source: kmod Binary: kmod module-init-tools libkmod2 libkmod-dev libkmod2-udeb Architecture: source i386 all Version: 9-3 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it

Accepted inn2 2.5.3-2 (source i386)

2013-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:43:24 +0200 Source: inn2 Binary: inn2 inn2-lfs inn2-inews inn2-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.5.3-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m

Accepted whois 5.0.23 (source i386)

2013-04-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:14:14 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.23 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Accepted netbase 5.1 (source all)

2013-04-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:31:27 +0200 Source: netbase Binary: netbase Architecture: source all Version: 5.1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Accepted gup 0.5.14 (source i386)

2013-04-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:36:31 +0200 Source: gup Binary: gup Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.5.14 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: gup

Accepted whois 5.0.21 (source i386)

2013-03-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:46:02 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.21 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Accepted whois 5.0.22 (source i386)

2013-03-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:17:29 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.22 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: FOSDEM 2013

2013-01-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 30, Federico Di Gregorio f...@dndg.it wrote: NH City Center come sempre. Ti mando il mio cell in privato così eventualmente possiamo sentirci per cene e affini. OK, il mio è sempre il solito. Ma tutti gli altri? Non leggete la lista o semplicemente vi sto sul cazzo? -- ciao, Marco

Re: jessie: Mounting /usr in the initramfs

2012-12-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 28, Roger Leigh rle...@debian.org wrote: I've created a wiki page here for this proposed release goal for jessie: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/MountUsrInInitramfs Please remove the Mounting /etc in the initramfs part. Even ignoring its merit, it has nothing to do with this and

Re: Bug#693774: ITP: grub-finnix -- Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems

2012-11-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 20, Ryan Finnie r...@finnie.org wrote: Description : Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems I think that you should add one or two lines to explain what Finnix is. At least, the word rescue would help a lot... Note that there are certain restrictions regarding where

Re: Where could I upload x32 port bootstrap?

2012-11-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 09, Daniel Schepler dschep...@gmail.com wrote: I've asked a couple people in private mail about this, and haven't gotten any answer, so I thought I'd ask here for ideas. Where would be a good place to upload what I have so far from bootstrapping an x32 port of Debian? Nowhere, until

Re: IPv6, tentative addresses, bind(), wheezy

2012-11-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 02, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: Seems like the right solution is to wait for the network device to be fully up in the init script with a sleep loop... though that's certainly not optimal. Maybe for the time being it will be easier and safer to have ifupdown wait until DAD is

Re: Bug#690183: ITP: apt-fast -- shellscript wrapper for apt-get or aptitude

2012-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 11, Hideki Yamane henr...@debian.or.jp wrote: apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for apt-get that can drastically improve apt download times by downloading packages in parallel, with multiple connections per package. well, isn't it huge load for repository servers? As a mirror

Accepted whois 5.0.20 (source i386)

2012-10-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 01:25:05 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.20 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: Handling /etc/modprobe.d and module load order

2012-09-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 18, Amit amit.ut...@gmail.com wrote: This is main problem. Both the drivers try and control the device. The only work around I could come up with was to pass a usbhid quirks to ignore this specific board and then load the custom driver. Actually there is a different solution: # stop

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: So we shall drop things like automatic configuration of postfix? It actually even asks the user if the config file should be modified. That is just one example of a lot others that jump into my mind. /etc/postfix/{main,master}.cf are not conffiles,

Re: mass bug filing about packages manipulating/deleting shipped files

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 17, Bernd Zeimetz be...@bzed.de wrote: To cite http://release.debian.org/wheezy/rc_policy.txt: Packages' /etc/default scripts must be treated as configuration files. Which are not the same things as conffiles. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Accepted whois 5.0.19 (source i386)

2012-09-17 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:41:29 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.19 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: mass bug filing about packages with empty /usr/share/doc/$package/ (no copyright file)?

2012-09-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 16, Julien Cristau jcris...@debian.org wrote: I think the advice should be to reconsider whether symlinking the doc directories is really a good idea. I think it really is, since it saves space with minimal effort. It only becomes an issue when you switch a package to a symlinked

Re: Processor microcode update packages (was: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3)

2012-09-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 13, Wolodja Wentland deb...@babilen5.org wrote: The main problem I see is that there seem to be essentially two types of packages in non-free right now, namely those that contain firmware/microcode (etc) and are crucial for correctly working hardware and the rest. Yes, this was duly

Re: packaging a tiny/trivial blob in a DFSG-clean way?

2012-09-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 14, Michael Tokarev m...@tls.msk.ru wrote: Well, in that case we can ship alot more .bin files from qemu sources too, and build these on corresponding architecturs like already mentioned (to verify the result is still the same). Additional x86 ROMs, sparc ROMs, this PPC ROM, ... The

Re: Towards d-i wheezy beta 3

2012-09-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 10, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: I'd like to see it recommend the instalation of (or just install by default) system processor microcode update packages when non-free is enabled on a x86 arch (i386 or amd64) and the running processor is either Intel or AMD (easily

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-09-03 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 03, Serge sergem...@gmail.com wrote: * ability to easily edit content of root partition and put some additional software to mount /usr Can you show some actual real life examples? (much easier than making changes to initramfs) And anyway, adding programs to the initramfs is as

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 31, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: If I need to have /usr mounted before init starts, then I'm more or less dead, and I'll have to get a recovery CD / USB. If this is a concern to you, you can install the grml-rescueboot package and/or a similar on-disk rescue image which will

Re: [proposal] use xz compression for Debian package by default

2012-08-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 29, Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org wrote: I thought this was already the consensus, and the only dissenting opinion was that the base system should still be using gzip so that foreign non-Debian systems can unpack it w/o requiring to build or install xz beforehand. I am not sure if

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 30, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: The obvious way is to not use a separate /usr anymore or simply mount /usr via the initramfs. Wasn't there a patch for initramfs-tools floating around doing that? Yes, there is one but the maintainer has not applied or rejected it so far.

Re: Stuff from /bin, /sbin, /lib depending on /usr/lib libraries

2012-08-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 30, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: And yet, when we discussed this just a little bit ago, several people asked to keep the distinction because, for them, it provides value. A few people ask for silly things all the time, but this in itself is not a good enough reason to satisfy

Re: Bug#686075: modemmanager shouldn't recommend usb-modeswitch, but suggest it

2012-08-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 28, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: We don't have the infrastructure though, to do such hardware based installation requests, i.e. a system service which constantly monitors newly plugged in devices, has a database of devices mapping to packages, and a service running in the user

Accepted kmod 9-2 (source i386 all)

2012-08-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:40:18 +0200 Source: kmod Binary: kmod module-init-tools libkmod2 libkmod-dev libkmod2-udeb Architecture: source i386 all Version: 9-2 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 25, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au wrote: Upholding the social contract – that Debian, as distributed by the Debian project, remain 100% free – is sufficient reason to remove these files without corresponding source. As I said, this is a religious argument. It's OK, billions of

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: If it's that hard to produce a minified version, then shouldn't we use the normal version? How much speed-up do we really No. get anyway (my wild guess: not much...)? Very important, anybody who deals with web scalability knows that javascript

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Stephan Seitz stse+deb...@fsing.rootsland.net wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 01:08:53PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: Never mind wireless lan where you've got a well defined kernel API. Try to configure a modern 3G/LTE modem using ifupdown, and you will see the Is this something

Re: Possible release note for systems running PHP through CGI.

2012-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Wouter Verhelst w...@uter.be wrote: But some sites accept file uploads with arbitrary names, perhaps expected to be a JPEG image, but actually named bar.php.jpeg and containing malicious server-side PHP which they could execute from the browser. Don't Do That Then(TM). I see

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: IPv6 people say renumbering is easy, which is only the case if SLAAC This is between wishful thinking and an urban legend, so people who actually know about IPv6 have not been saying this much in the last years. -- ciao, Marco

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: But still, I agree that we should have a better way to signal to user space when an interface is ready. Not just for IPv6, but also more We need better userspace glue, then. Because the netlink interface to the kernel network

Re: can we (fully) fix/integrate NetworkManager (preferred) or release-goal its decommissioning

2012-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, Christoph Anton Mitterer cales...@scientia.net wrote: Where do I see the main problems of NM? NM, as a design goal, is not supposed to be able to manage every possible configuration. I see no reason do /discourage/ it use: it has important use cases where it works well, the problem

Re: Possible release note for systems running PHP through CGI.

2012-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org wrote: - PHP scripts can be executed by Apache httpd through libapache2-mod-php5 or php5-cgi. Debian recommends libapache2-mod-php5, but there are still This is another issue which concerns me, since mod_php forces the use of preforking apache,

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: Because Debian prides itself in being Universal regarding ports and architectures. Does it? Who said so? But even if this were true, it does not automatically justify dumbing down the OS which people in the real world use for the sake

Re: RFC: terminate init script when service is ready

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de wrote: Anything that uses IPv6 and cannot deal with dynamic changes on the host addresses is critically broken. That includes bind, radvd and apache, and, IIRC, sshd. BIND definitely looks for new IP addresses: options { interface-interval

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 18, Aron Xu happyaron...@gmail.com wrote: For yourself, they might be toy ports, but please don't speak on behalf of others from time to time when nobody authorized you to do so. I am not, but I understand that arguing about this is much easier than arguing that incomplete ports used

Accepted udev 175-7 (source i386)

2012-08-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: gir1.2-gudev-1.0 - libgudev-1.0 introspection data libgudev-1.0-0 - GObject-based wrapper library for libudev libgudev-1.0-dev - libgudev-1.0 development files libudev-dev - libudev development files

Re: Minified javascript files

2012-08-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 16, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: I know this is tedious but what others think about this matter? This is another case in which the DFSG has become a religion to be followed in a literalist interpretation instead of a tool to be used for the purpose of advancing software

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 13, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Isn't forking udev something similar to working on mdev? How many people No, you just have to look at the code bases and features set to understand why. At many level, udev has been really annoying, breaking upgrades and so on. I can't help

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 12, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com wrote: Yes, udev on non-systemd systems is in our eyes a dead end, in case you haven't noticed it yet. I am looking forward to the day when we can drop that support entirely - Lennart Poettering (lists.freedesktop.org) If this will become

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 12, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: Not good. Time to look a bit more seriously at mdev then? Waste of time, mdev lacks critical features like modules autoloading so it is laughable to argue that it is a credible udev replacement for any use case except (some) embedded systems.

Accepted udev 175-6 (source i386)

2012-08-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: gir1.2-gudev-1.0 - libgudev-1.0 introspection data libgudev-1.0-0 - GObject-based wrapper library for libudev libgudev-1.0-dev - libgudev-1.0 development files libudev-dev - libudev development files

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 11, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: Exactly! And in this particular case, the vendor is RedHat, and the programs are systemd and udev. If we can have an alternative, using OpenRC and mdev, then I really welcome it! Choosing systemd just because it *seem* to look better *now*,

Re: choice in core infrastructure decisions (Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism)

2012-08-11 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 11, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: the programs are systemd and udev. If we can have an alternative, ^^ Please stop saying we. *You* are not Debian. Thanks. Pot. Kettle. Black. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 10, Philip Hands p...@hands.com wrote: Now that they've done the bulk of the effort, do you really expect them to simply discard their work because you tell them to? I really do not care about what the openrc developers will do, my interest is in what Debian developers will do. So,

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 10, Martin Wuertele m...@debian.org wrote: http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html And that really explains why there is a choice for core functions like kernel event handler: udevd, hotplug2, mdev c library: glibc, eglibc, dietlibc They exist, and

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
Please do not bother. openrc was recently discussed on debian-devel@ and there was a large consensus that it is not a credible alternative to upstart and systemd. We do not need to be able to choose among multiple init implementations. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 09, The Fungi fu...@yuggoth.org wrote: So I would assume this ITP is merely an outcome of that debian-devel discussion, I think that the outcome of that discussion was that openrc would be too little too late for Debian, and that it is proven that trying to support well multiple init

Re: Bug#684396: ITP: openrc -- alternative boot mechanism that manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host

2012-08-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 10, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: In the case of OpenRC, it has the potential to be a drop-in replacement for sysv-rc (note that it uses base sysvinit still underneath that). So do the other init systems. The point is what they can do which sysvinit (and openrc) cannot. --

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Arno Töll a...@debian.org wrote: historic, rather. ifconfig and route were around already when everyone insisted on the separation of /bin and /sbin. /bin/ip is slightly newer and supposed to replace ifconfig/route some day entirely. Just for the records, iproute entirely replaced

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: Sure, certainly true. But, assuming that we have a consensus that the distinction no longer matters and just causes extra work (something that I'm inclined to agree with but that I don't think we can assume we've decided on yet), I hate to see

Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1

2012-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Ulrich Dangel u...@spamt.net wrote: Changing the default PATH for normal users to include /sbin, /usr/sbin as well as /usr/local/sbin would be a great thing for simplifying command line usage for normal users. Fedora did it a few months ago, so probably we should do it as well to

Re: node-like file conflicts

2012-08-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 06, Jakub Wilk jw...@debian.org wrote: gearmand: gearman-job-server gearman-server These are two implementation of the same protocol. tcpd: tcm tcpd I hope it is obvious that we cannot rename the real tcpd. :-) -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Accepted udev 175-5 (source i386)

2012-07-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: gir1.2-gudev-1.0 - libgudev-1.0 introspection data libgudev-1.0-0 - GObject-based wrapper library for libudev libgudev-1.0-dev - libgudev-1.0 development files libudev-dev - libudev development files

Accepted tcp-wrappers 7.6.q-24 (source i386)

2012-07-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:37:41 +0200 Source: tcp-wrappers Binary: tcpd libwrap0 libwrap0-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 7.6.q-24 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m

Accepted udev 175-4 (source i386)

2012-07-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: gir1.2-gudev-1.0 - libgudev-1.0 introspection data libgudev-1.0-0 - GObject-based wrapper library for libudev libgudev-1.0-dev - libgudev-1.0 development files libudev-dev - libudev development files

Re: MATE Desktop Environment in Debian

2012-07-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 22, Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org wrote: Bitter experience. My main problem is that I don't want to follow the direction set out by GNOME3 with the shell and lack of usable panels, You don't have to. I use gnome applications and the panel with fvwm. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc

Accepted whois 5.0.18 (source i386)

2012-07-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:35:18 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.18 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-07-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jul 09, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: OK, I misunderstood the problem. I thought the difficulty was to fire the screensaver on the behalf of the active user. Isn't the information about running a power management software available through DBus? The whole point of this discussion

Re: Future of update-rc.d in wheezy+1

2012-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 28, Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net wrote: While we could expend the time and effort to do this, I do have to question why. What would be the point of this? No one is using those numbers, so why retain them? Agreed. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Accepted inn 1:1.7.2q-41 (source i386)

2012-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:51:17 +0200 Source: inn Binary: inn Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:1.7.2q-41 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Accepted inn2 2.5.3-1 (source i386)

2012-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 02:02:31 +0200 Source: inn2 Binary: inn2 inn2-lfs inn2-inews inn2-dev Architecture: source i386 Version: 2.5.3-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m

Accepted binkd 0.9.11-1 (source i386)

2012-06-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:27:17 +0200 Source: binkd Binary: binkd Architecture: source i386 Version: 0.9.11-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: Bug#679078: ITP: acpi-support-minimal -- minimal acpi scripts

2012-06-27 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 27, Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org wrote: I'd prefer to get this fixed in acpi-support-base, but I think you have made your point very clear that the only purpose of that package is to not do anything if some power manager is running and that to detect this perfectly you are

Accepted tin 1:2.1.1-1 (source i386)

2012-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:31:17 +0200 Source: tin Binary: tin Architecture: source i386 Version: 1:2.1.1-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description: tin

Accepted kmod 9-1 (source i386 all)

2012-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 02:48:38 +0200 Source: kmod Binary: kmod module-init-tools libkmod2 libkmod-dev libkmod2-udeb Architecture: source i386 all Version: 9-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it

Accepted whois 5.0.17 (source i386)

2012-06-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 03:34:36 +0200 Source: whois Binary: whois Architecture: source i386 Version: 5.0.17 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Changed-By: Marco d'Itri m...@linux.it Description

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-23 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 23, Russ Allbery r...@debian.org wrote: We've frequently required users to upgrade specific packages to newer versions prior to the general dist-upgrade to resolve various issues, such as for the udev transition. FWIW, what we required was to upgrade the kernel and udev at the same

Re: The future (or non-future) of ia32-libs

2012-06-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 22, Goswin von Brederlow goswin-...@web.de wrote: Step 1: upgrade/dist-upgrade with ia32-libs (wine, ...) held back Step 2: dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt-get update Step 3: dist-upgrade (ia32-libs, wine, ... is now installable) Maybe this is easier? 1: upgrade dpkg and apt 2: dpkg

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 21, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: The other aspect, however, is that Hangout and Skype are not free. It is not unacceptable for those developing Debian to use non-free software, or non-free services, but it gets problematic if it's I do not remember the social contract discussing

Re: Report from the Bug Squashing Party in Salzburg

2012-06-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 21, Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi wrote: While some people understandably do not like to use proprietary online services managed by third parties, there is no consensus that using them for Debian purposes is inappropriate. I believe there is a consensus that having the project

Re: Bind9 - anyone know what the maintainer is up to?

2012-06-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 15, Matthew Grant matthewgra...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondering how busy he is. Just that it would be good to have Bind Probably a lot. Did you ask him if he would like the help of a co-maintainer? Did you try sending patches for open bugs? Uploading a new release is the easy part of the

Re: amd64 as default architecture

2012-05-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 20, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: No, keep i386 userland only. Though we might consider reducing even that to a 'partial architecture' that has only libraries (similar to ia32-libs today, only cleaner). Don't you believe in x32? -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

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