Jessie Release

2015-01-28 Thread Balder García García
Hi, I only want to know when will jessie released , I am waitting for SteamOS final version, but first you must launch jessie, thanks for your time! // Hola, solo quería saber cuando se lanzará la versión estable de Debian Jessie, estoy pendiente del lanzamiento de la versión definitiva de SteamO

Re: Jessie Release

2015-01-28 Thread Riley Baird
On 29/01/15 09:32, Balder García García wrote: > Hi, I only want to know when will jessie released , I am waitting for > SteamOS final version, but first you must launch jessie, thanks for your > time! // Hola, solo quería saber cuando se lanzará la versión estable de > Debian Jessie, estoy pendi

Re: Jessie Release

2015-01-28 Thread Ben Finney
of things that need to be done before the release. We are currently in feature freeze for Jessie. At the page for information on the Jessie release, you can see: People often ask if there is a single release "progress meter". Unfortunately there isn't one, but we can refer y

jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi, now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and some were already discussed very recently): * multiarch compatible binNMUs * discarding maintainer uploaded binary packages [!arch:all] * discarding mai

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. I would like to see the following with respect to PHP and all packages using PHP: 1) We should try to educate users not to use mod_php. From a security POV it's rather problematic, as it runs in server context. And for people really needing the performance, FPM should be an equally good solut

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-05-06 14:49, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > While the ideas themselves are worthwhile, they d

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Mathieu Parent
Hello, 2013/5/6 Christoph Anton Mitterer : > Hey. > > I would like to see the following with respect to PHP and all packages > using PHP: [...] Related to PHP, but more on the PEAR side, I would like to see all PEAR packages migrated to build with pkg-php-tools (the dh way of PEAR packages). Mig

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/06/2013 08:49 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Hi, now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and some were already discussed very recently): * multiarch compatible binNMUs * discarding maintainer up

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Two more things I remember: 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. The usually come only with a default config which may not be hardened enough for the local syst

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:08:07PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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. > The usually come only with a default confi

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Игорь Пашев
2013/5/6 Andrey Rahmatullin : > There is also a related thing that was discussed in the past: stop > disabling services via /etc/default. Modern service management systems might be better choice. E. g. systemd or SMF :-P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/06/2013 09:15 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey. > > I would like to see the following with respect to PHP and all packages > using PHP: > 1) We should try to educate users not to use mod_php. From a security > POV it's rather problematic, as it runs in server context. And for > peopl

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 06, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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 clear consensus: i

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/06/2013 09:29 PM, Mathieu Parent wrote: > Related to PHP, but more on the PEAR side, I would like to see all > PEAR packages migrated to build with pkg-php-tools (the dh way of PEAR > packages). Yes ! I do 100% agree with the above. This could be a release goal, IMO. > Migrating PECL packag

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Niels Thykier , 2013-05-06, 15:26: now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and some were already discussed very recently): While the ideas themselves are worthwhile, they do not seem to be "releas

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/06/2013 10:08 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > The usually come only with a default config which may not be hardened > enough for the local system, and that short time may already be enough > for an attacker to attack. If the default config isn't hardened enough, fix the default config.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Holger Levsen
severity 601455 normal thanks Hi, On Montag, 6. Mai 2013, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > There is also a related thing that was discussed in the past: stop > disabling services via /etc/default. #601455 "can't stop daemon using /etc/init.d/foo stop when disabled via /etc/default/foo" is related to

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Christoph Anton Mitterer , 2013-05-06, 16:08: 2) No more packages that bypass the package management system and secure apt: a) There are still several (typically non-free) packages which download stuff from the web, install or at least un-tar it somwhere without checking any integrity informa

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 00:52:03 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/06/2013 10:08 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > The usually come only with a default config which may not be hardened > > enough for the local system, and that short time may already be enough > > for an attacker to attack. > If the

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-06 17:22:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 06, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Serafeim Zanikolas
As the sole driver and implementor of DEP9, I would like to see all reverse depends of update-inetd migrate to reconf-inetd. That is, assuming inetd is not entirely deprecated by systemd/upstart/whathaveyou by the time jessie is released. On a less boring note, I would like to see apt-listbugs bec

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-05-06 17:22:57 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > On May 06, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > > 1) IMHO, services/daemons (e.g. apache, ejabberd, etc.) that > > > listen per default on the network (unless loopback only) shouldn't > > > be starte

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Bob Proulx
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I would like to see the following with respect to PHP and all packages > using PHP: > 1) We should try to educate users not to use mod_php. If "Best Practices" such as this were documented such as on the Debian wiki then it would go a long way to making this easy

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Helmut Grohne
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:08:07PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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. May I point to /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d? As ha

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNMUs > * disca

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 14:59 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > 1) We should try to educate users not to use mod_php. > If "Best Practices" such as this were documented such as on the Debian > wiki then it would go a long way to making this easy for users to do. > They could then simple follow recipies to

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 20:47 +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote: > Do you have any concrete examples (besides flashplugin-nonfree, which is > indeed abominable)? I know at least of susv2/3. I once manually went through all the packages depending on wget/curl,... but I don't have the list anymore and would li

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 00:52 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > If the default config isn't hardened enough, fix the default config. > Adding a supplementary step to start the service doesn't fix the > problem anyway. I don't think this is only a question of hardened enough of not... simply supplying a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Wookey
+++ The Wanderer [2013-05-06 09:36 -0400]: > > I don't know whether it would be practical, but one thing I would like > to see included as an explicit goal is the completion of multi-arch -dev > support. I think it's eminently practical. > There is functionality provided by the old ia32-libs-dev

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): I have a long wishlist that contains some items wh

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-06 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Mon, 06 May 2013, Helmut Grohne wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 04:08:07PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer 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 insta

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Tue, May 7, 2013 02:55, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 14:59 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> > 1) We should try to educate users not to use mod_php. >> If "Best Practices" such as this were documented such as on the Debian >> wiki then it would go a long way to making this e

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Raphael Hertzog writes: >> provided as a hook. You also might want to look at the >> policyrcd-script-zg2 package. >> > Except for chroots that do not run the boot-time scripts, this mechanism > is mostly useless. /etc/init.d/rc doesn't know about policy-rc.d and thus > you can't use it to disable

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Wouter Verhelst
classic > binNMU should stay of course) I would like to see the elimination of "ENABLE"-style variables in /etc/default snippets, to enable or disable initscripts, as a jessie release goal. These things are ugly, annoying hacks that try to work around the fact that we can't ship in

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Guillem Jover
On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 10:06:34 +0300, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584865 > > discusses a prototype that I internally use. It hooks to policy-rc.d to > prevent services from starting during package installation and to dpkg > post-invoke to detect n

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Bastien ROUCARIES
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNMUs > * disc

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Mon, 06 May 2013 14:49:57 +0200 Andreas Beckmann wrote: > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. * xz for default package compression (as I said in last summer :) * handling release goal/target/task via BTS to clear what is done or not * ..

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi Wookey, On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: > (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and > move arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/triplet). Doesn't this limit us to cross-compiling only across Debian architectures? If we go for a full /usr/include

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi, On Mon, 06 May 2013 14:49:57 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/Remov

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 07.05.2013 10:10, schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > I would like to see the elimination of "ENABLE"-style variables in > /etc/default snippets, to enable or disable initscripts, as a jessie > release goal. > > These things are ugly, annoying hacks that try to work around the

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/07/2013 04:11 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > This doesn't make any sense. What is installed is a package, not > a service. There are packages, like rsync, that provide more than > a service, e.g. a client and a daemon. What if the user wants the > client but not the corresponding service (at an

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web > server, displaying a default web page is harmless. But what about a > mail server? Any default config would probably lead to loss of mail > if things like virtual alias domains are

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 02:38:07PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Wookey, > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and > > move arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/triplet). > Doesn't this limit us to cross-comp

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
On Lunes, 6 de mayo de 2013 13:49:57 Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNMUs >

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-07 14:38 +0200]: > Hi Wookey, > > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and > > move arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/triplet). > > Doesn't this limit us to cross-compiling only acro

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Wookey wookware.org> writes: > And you can still use a sysroot and non-multiarch ways of filling it > if you prefer. I haven't really experimented with mulitarch and > sysroot at the same time but SFAIK it should work. I can confirm Multi-Arch doesn’t break traditional cross compilers as prepar

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Wookey [130507 23:31]: > The tradeoff is: > 1) (Move _all_ headers to /usr/include/triplet) > * Much duplication of installed headers > * Only one system include dir, which fits current build-system > expectations Which would also punish the libraries getting headers correct while making

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2013-05-07 22:31 +0100]: > The tradeoff is: > 1) (Move _all_ headers to /usr/include/triplet) > * Much duplication of installed headers > * Only one system include dir, which fits current build-system > expectations > > 2) (Move only arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/tri

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-07 Thread Wookey
+++ Wookey [2013-05-07 22:31 +0100]: [right. 3rd attempt at getting this email to make sense. reposting the whole thing this time, hopefully with no remaining howlers] +++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-07 14:38 +0200]: > Hi Wookey, > > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > (just a decisi

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-08 Thread Dmitrijs Ledkovs
On 7 May 2013 05:38, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Wookey, > > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: >> (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and >> move arch-dependent headers to /usr/include/triplet). > > Doesn't this limit us to cross-compiling only across De

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-08 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Wed, 8 May 2013 03:57:20 +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Wookey [2013-05-07 22:31 +0100]: > > [right. 3rd attempt at getting this email to make sense. reposting the > whole thing this time, hopefully with no remaining howlers] > > +++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-07 14:38 +0200]: > > Hi Wookey, > > > >

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-08 Thread Joey Hess
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > 2) No more packages that bypass the package management system and secure > apt: > a) There are still several (typically non-free) packages which download > stuff from the web, install or at least un-tar it somwhere without > checking any integrity information that

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-08 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Joey Hess , 2013-05-08, 17:53: (Last I checked, flashplugin-nonfree verified the integrity of its downloads in a secure way.) Last I checked, flashplugin-nonfree was unauditable. It downloaded a script from people.d.o and the ran it. We may never know what the script did. -- Jakub Wilk

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-08 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 17:53 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > There's nothing stopping you filing a release critical bug > against any package that does this. I do it whenever I notice > something doing that. Obviously :) The thing is just... we need a way (at least at a social level) to prevent this from

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Hi, > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > some were already discussed very recently): > > * multiarch compatible binNM

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-09 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Thu, 9 May 2013 10:10:01 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:49:57PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and > > some were

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/05/13 13:49, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > for jessie. Some random "make things less fragile" ideas, from the packages that FTBFS with the new GLib[1]: * Packages intended to reach stable not FTBFSing just because a funct

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 09:34:09PM +0100, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Lunes, 6 de mayo de 2013 13:49:57 Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > now might be the right time to start a discussion about release goals > > for jessie. Here are some points that come into my mind right now (and >

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:31:10PM +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-07 14:38 +0200]: > > Hi Wookey, > > > > On Tue, 7 May 2013 03:04:50 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > > (just a decision to leave arch-independent headers in /usr/include and > > > move arch-dependent headers to /usr/inclu

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Let me explain where I'm coming from... With MinGW-w64, we have a set of > compilers, headers and libraries which allow building software targeting > native Windows, without Cygwin or much in the way of wrappers at all. This is > defin

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 23:53:07 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/07/2013 04:11 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This doesn't make any sense. What is installed is a package, not > > a service. There are packages, like rsync, that provide more than > > a service, e.g. a client and a daemon. What if the user

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Daniel Schepler
Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and lib64* packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as many package dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64] as possible, which would in addition mean limiting some packages to arch:i386 if they currently provide a fake arch:amd

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Daniel Schepler (12/05/2013): > Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and > lib64* packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as > many package dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64] as possible, which > would in addition mean limiting some packages to arch:i386 if

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 12.05.2013 16:18, schrieb Daniel Schepler: > Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and lib64* > packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as many package > dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64] as possible, which would in addition > mean limiting some packages

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Daniel Schepler
On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 12.05.2013 16:18, schrieb Daniel Schepler: > > Maybe we could have a release goal of dropping as many lib32* and lib64* > > packages as possible in favor of multi-arch. (And also as many package > > dependencies on libc6-[i386|amd64] as

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). So useful, since you can then put files into the docroot and serve those files. (An analogy to your example could be an imap server being useless, since ther

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Philip Hands
Hi Vincent, Vincent Lefevre writes: ... > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). But not for > postfix, which can reject mail by default without an initial > configuration. Since it is not working by default, and loses

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Wookey
+++ Daniel Schepler [2013-05-12 09:19 -0700]: >On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Matthias Klose <[1]d...@debian.org> >wrote: > > �- find a solution that GCC's b-d's may not be installable anymore with > � �the current approach to binNMUs. > >OK, that's a good point that I had

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to > confirm that the first half of an install is going pretty well when I > get to see the "useless" dummy page from Apache. I'd imagine someone > installing their first web s

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-12 Thread Mark Symonds
On May 12, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Wookey wrote: > +++ Daniel Schepler [2013-05-12 09:19 -0700]: >> On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Matthias Klose <[1]d...@debian.org> >> wrote: >> >> �- find a solution that GCC's b-d's may not be installable anymore with >> � �the current approach to bi

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Paul Wise writes: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:01 AM, Philip Hands wrote: > >> I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to >> confirm that the first half of an install is going pretty well when I >> get to see the "useless" dummy page from Apache. I'd imagine someone >> i

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > It looks to me as though your apache and rsyncd suggestions are straying > into the forbidden territory of using debconf as a registry. I didn't advocate storing such info in debconf. PS: I'm subscribed. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.or

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just > > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). > > So useful, since you can then put files into the docroot and serve those > files. But the a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an > > > initial configuration. Since it is not working by default, and loses > > > mail, the daemon shouldn't be enabled by default.

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web > > server, displaying a default web page is harmless. But what about a > > mail server? Any default config would probably lead

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Vincent Lefevre >> >> > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just >> > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). >> >> So useful, since you can then put files into the docroot a

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an > > > > initial configuration. Since it is not working by default,

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > But not for postfix, which can reject mail by default without an > > > > > initial configuration. S

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 12:02:31 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > My only use of Apache on some machine is because of sensord. But > > it may happen that in a few months, I would no longer need sensord > > and may remove the package. In this case, it would make sense to > > stop the

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > So you configured it through debconf, in a non-default way, and it > > > refused mails according to how you configured it. > > > > AFAIK, debconf is the *onl

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Vincent Lefevre > On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > ]] Vincent Lefevre > > > > > On 2013-05-13 13:01:27 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > > So you configured it through debconf, in a non-default way, and it > > > > refused mails according to how you configured it. >

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] Vincent Lefevre On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only») sets This is not the default configuration, just the default choice (it is not written "Default configurat

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Philip Hands
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2013-05-13 12:02:31 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre writes: >> > My only use of Apache on some machine is because of sensord. But >> > it may happen that in a few months, I would no longer need sensord >> > and may remove the package. In this case, it w

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Yes, but similarly, there's no way to do this automatically. apt-get autoremove is automatic, or if you want that earlier you could remove sensord using aptitude which will automatically remove unused dependencies. > There's also a proble

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 08:48:33 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >]] Vincent Lefevre > > > >>On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >>>No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only») > >>>sets > >> > >>This is not the default

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 14:37:28 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > There's also a problem that the man pages are in the package: > > > > $ dpkg -L apache2.2-common | grep /man/ > > /usr/share/man/man8 > > /usr/share/man/man8/apache2.8.gz > > /usr/share/man/man8/a2ensite.8.gz > > /usr/

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 16:26:58 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > One could imagine the same thing but with testing directories... > Something like in the /etc/default/ file: > > test -f some_dir || ENABLED=0 > > But this method needs an "ENABLED" variable! Actually, that would be more like ENABLED=0 test

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-05-13 21:42:20 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, but similarly, there's no way to do this automatically. > > apt-get autoremove is automatic, or if you want that earlier you could > remove sensord using aptitude which will automatica

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 13 mai 2013 15:37:28, Philip Hands a écrit : > > If you must see the man page from a particular package: > > dget apache2.2-common > mkdir -p ./tmp/apache2.2-common > dpkg -X apache2.2-common_2.2.22-13_amd64.deb ./tmp/apache2.2-common JTYI, you could also use debman -p apache2.2-c

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:39:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > The big issue which crops up then isn't so much the directory structure's > > impact on the build process, but rather its impact on the packaging > > process. If the

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Simon McVittie
On 13/05/13 18:26, Stephen Kitt wrote: > Yes, but that's not the problem. Take the premise that the target > directory structure is as described above, so most library > development packages ship as many headers as possible in > /usr/include. For now we'll assume all mingw-w64-...-dev headers > are

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > But there isn't a dependency (and currently all the config needs > to be done manually, as described in the sensord(8) man page). > So, this won't work. That sounds like a suboptimal package, -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWis

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: > Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to understand? No. The goal of Debian is not to be "simple". While we should document things as much as possible so that the interested can learn how things work, in no case should we ever avoi

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Wouter Verhelst (2013-05-14 12:22:14) > On 13-05-13 05:59, Mark Symonds wrote: > > Can we keep the distribution simple enough for nearly anyone to > > understand? > > No. > > The goal of Debian is not to be "simple". While we should document > things as much as possible so that the inte

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Ondřej Surý
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > I suggest that you file a bug against php5 with suggested changes and we can > discuss the pros and cons of each for jessie. And I must add that I consider very rude to push your (sometimes extreme, sometimes very usefull) ideas how should

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 07:26:15PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:39:28 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow > wrote: > > On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 11:57:58AM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote: > > > The big issue which crops up then isn't so much the directory structure's > > > impact on the bu

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Joey Hess
Paul Wise wrote: > Probably the rsync package should just ask you via debconf if you want > to serve any directories and what their names and paths should be. > Since most folks who have rsync installed don't need rsyncd, the > default would be to not setup anything. No, it should not. 60 packages

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Wookey
+++ Stephen Kitt [2013-05-13 19:26 +0200]: > Yes, but that's not the problem. Take the premise that the target directory > structure is as described above, so most library development packages ship as > many headers as possible in /usr/include. For now we'll assume all > mingw-w64-...-dev headers

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 05/13/2013 07:08 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2013-05-07 23:54:36 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 05/07/2013 04:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> This can be fine for some daemons/servers. For instance, for a web >>> server, displaying a default web page is harmless. But what about a >>> m

Re: jessie release goals

2013-05-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Philip Hands wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: > > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just > > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). > > I don't know about you, but I find it quite reassuring to be able to > confirm that the first half of an install is going pr

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